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Why is the neighborhood name never populated?

Hi all.  I'm using reverse geocoding, from lat/lon (gflags=R).  The "neighborhood" field exists in the results but is always empty, even for areas that I know have neighborhood names available from other sources (like datasciencetoolkit.org).

Is there simply a lack of data in Yahoo's source for neighborhood names?

Thanks for any insight.

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  • Bah!  There's a parameter that controls the return of neighborhood names, but Yahoo put it in the wrong parameter block!  From the documentation:
    FLAGS PARAMETER The input parameter named flags determines which data elements are returned in the response.
    But that's NOT where the neighborhood-name parameter goes; it goes in...

    GFLAGS PARAMETER The input parameter named gflags affects how geocoding is performed for the request.

    A    Return neighborhood names for each result.
    Great service, Yahoo, but bad organization on that one.
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