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Ask HN: Free Neighborhood Boundary Data?
I'm working on a directory project and would like to allow users to search within various city neighborhoods. I have the lat, lng for the various businesses, but was unable to find any freely available neighborhood data sets to correlate the geo data with neighborhoods.
- bitsm 15y agoThese are difficult to find. In the past, I have found these in individual city GIS department websites, but haven't found a single source that aggregates lots of cities. Quality and formats tend to vary as well.
- neovive 15y agoThat's what I'm finding as well. I searched through the Census site and found PUMA references and was able to find some neighborhood data and various local university library pages, but no single source with everything -- besides expensive commercial data sets.
- neovive 15y agoUpdate: Just find this page from Zillow (http://www.zillow.com/howto/api/neighborhood-boundaries.htm http://www.zillow.com/howto/api/neighborhood-boundaries.htm). It's in the shape file format.
- cfei 15y agoI've never used it, but I know Yelp has one (http://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/neighborhood_api http://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/neighborhood_ap...).
- MPiccinato 15y agoHave you checked out SimpleGeo? I believe their places have Neighborhood info available but not sure if you can filter on it.
- neovive 15y agoLooks interesting. Their context database seems to have the neighborhood data. Thanks.
- frobozz 15y agoOrdnance Survey OpenData is rather comprehensive. The licence (AFAIK, IANAL) allows free commercial and non-commercial use, as long as you attribute the data to them. http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/.html http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/.html It has boundaries for Counties, Cities, Electoral Constituencies and Wards, Civic Parishes, and probably other divisions, too.