DavidF
Elysium Fields
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I can't post the link from work, but I just happened to pull up the Ohio map on Google maps and when I zoomed in to Columbus, Fifth by Northwest popped up on the map. No other neighborhood in Columbus did. Not Clintonville, Short North, German Village, nothing. Just Fifth by Northwest.
Anybody have any ideas why this is?
Edit: I also noticed that this is where Grandview would normally be listed. Marble Cliff is listed, but nothing for Grandview. Looks like the name has been replaced.
GW_Justice
Grandview Hts.
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If you are on the Google map page and do a search for "Grandview hts ohio", it places the marker on the map - right where it now says 5xNW.
So the database knows that Grandview is there, but somehow mislabels it.
Yea! Now I can stop paying Grandview taxes and instead pay the much lower Columbus rates. ¡Viva la Revolución!
rus
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GW_Justice said:
If you are on the Google map page and do a search for "Grandview hts ohio", it places the marker on the map - right where it now says 5xNW.So the database knows that Grandview is there, but somehow mislabels it.
Zoom out on this location and you'll see the fifth by northwest label.
GCrites80s
5xNW
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There was a while there when Louisville Kentucky didn't appear on Google Maps at all.
alexs
Limestone bluffs of the Scioto
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Last week we met with CRPD Director McKnight and the city forester regarding street trees on 5th Ave. (CRPD owns the street trees in Columbus, and is responsible for their care.) Here are some of my notes:
The city is very interested in having more street trees, but has never gone into private property, as this wound entail because we're talking about planting trees in front of businesses.
We (5XNW and FOSR) thought there could be an easement for trees along the avenue, but it turns out that such easements would need to be individually negotiated with each property owner, and individually approved by City Council. Bexley has done something like this. Further, landowners might not want to encumber their properties with an easement that might restrict what they can do with the property a few years down the road.
Someone has to "own" the task of maintenance. Some streetside rain gardens on Gay and Town are becoming weedy (I need to scout those). Property owners can perform minor trimming on street trees, but any heavy work would be the city's responsibility (aka added workload).
BTW the city expects to have to remove 12,000 ash trees from the streets in the next three years or so, and that doesn't count ash trees in parks or golf courses. So they will be busy.
The potential scope would include 169 businesses. The city says it typically costs about $200 to have a contractor install a 2-inch caliper tree; the actual price varies with quantity. Price can also vary with accessories like iron grates which the trees might outgrow = destroy grate to save tree. The city grows trees in its own nursery but it cannot sell them to anyone.
Moving forward, we might be able to apply city funds or grant funds toward this. Maybe we can get OEPA Section 319 funds for 2013 (with a stormwater-management element), but given state finances now I'm not optimistic. For now, FOSR has some seed money which could be applied to helping the first few, most interested, businesses.
But, the meeting had no one from the transportation department, or anyone with biking, or any businesses. I'm guessing it's just the start of a larger discussion group but that's conjecture on my part. Anyway I was looking for red flags and we found a few, but overall the outcome was better than I expected.
alexs
Limestone bluffs of the Scioto
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Yep, and King Ave.
So how did the trees do? The city planted trees in the streetside easement of this suburban neighborhood a few years ago, and about half of them were ignored, and they died.
Side note regarding maintenance - I worked in the landscape shop of a large university here in town. They would buy shrubs or trees and plant them around campus, water them in, and put a blue tag on them. One week later, they would come back to water again, and remove the tag, and after that the plants were on their own. A few months later, they'd send my crew to remove the dead plants, and the root masses would come out of the ground in the exact shape of the pots they were in; not one root had ever grown into the ground.
bman
New Albany
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alexs said:
Yep, and King Ave.So how did the trees do? The city planted trees in the streetside easement of this suburban neighborhood a few years ago, and about half of them were ignored, and they died.
Side note regarding maintenance - I worked in the landscape shop of a large university here in town. They would buy shrubs or trees and plant them around campus, water them in, and put a blue tag on them. One week later, they would come back to water again, and remove the tag, and after that the plants were on their own. A few months later, they'd send my crew to remove the dead plants, and the root masses would come out of the ground in the exact shape of the pots they were in; not one root had ever grown into the ground.
I just had landscaping done here at the house ... how often and how much should I be watering? I had some trees (well, decorative trees like dapples etc ... ) planted and some flowering bushes/shrubs and then some flowering things (coral bells, sage etc ...)
Any help would be apprecaited. One of my dapples (dapple on a stand) is not fairing well.
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The trees that I know of are doing really well. I believe they planted in the Spring when it was raining a lot and residents did water them. I think it would be great to have trees on 5th, but it is also a harsher environment* and they may need more care. I really like the landscaping they that was put in front of the Meridian. It would be great to add some green to the desolate, heavily paved, commercial strip that 5th has become.
*(lots of constant construction with lots of street easements, utility work, road salt, cars wrapped around telephone polls, etc)
GW_Justice
Grandview Hts.
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Back on topic -
I, for one, welcome our new 5xNW overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted blogger personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
Analogue Kid
5th by West-Northwest
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I'm working on fixing it but the updates to Google Maps are slow and only happen every 3 months or so...
Analogue Kid
5th by West-Northwest
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DavidF said:
I think it's kind of brilliant how a real town was hijacked. I'm just curious about how that could occur. It's not like Grandview is an obscure place.
The problem is a lot of the people working on updating Google Maps are based in India and have a poor understanding of the geography of North America.
AMEEKER
Weinland Park
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I've been telling you for quite sometime that MOST of what you know as Grandview is actually 5xNW. This is just further proof. ;-)
Here are the approximate borders of 5xNW.
I think it has changed slightly on the 3rd Ave. alley border, but I can't remember exactly what it was. Maybe to include the north side of the alley.
If you're a business or even a resident of 5xNW who would like to be profiled on 5xNW.com, let me know.
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