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Really disappointed to hear this news. The SimpleGeo Context API gas been a really great resource for geographic data that isn't otherwise easily/affordably ava
by mikeocool 15y ago
Really disappointed to hear this news. The SimpleGeo Context API gas been a really great resource for geographic data that isn't otherwise easily/affordably available, like neighborhood boundaries.
- brianbreslin 15y agozillow distributes free kml files for the neighborhood boundaries. Edit: here is the link http://www.zillow.com/howto/api/neighborhood-boundaries.htm http://www.zillow.com/howto/api/neighborhood-boundaries.htm
- mikeocool 15y agoYeah, I've looked at those a while ago and it seemed that few cities, particularly NYC, the data was some what low quality. It was either really lacking in certain areas or the neighborhood boundaries were far off from what people who actually live in the city consider to be the boundaries. Although perhaps they've gotten better, I'll give them a look.
- brianbreslin 15y agoThat link is old, but another resource to look into is http://www.openstreetmap.org/ http://www.openstreetmap.org/
- neovive 15y agoIs there a good implementation guide for using the kml data to lookup a neighborhood given a lat,lng? I considered the Zillow files prior to using SimpleGeo, but implementing a spatial database in MySQL seemed very complex in comparison to a simple CURL request. Perhaps, this is worth another look.