You may be able to do something with CIESEN's estimated urban extent polygons, available as a WFS at http://beta.sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/mapserver/wfs/grump?version=1.1.1&service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities
Cheers --- On Thu, 14/1/10, William J. Spat <[email protected]> wrote: > From: William J. Spat <[email protected]> > Subject: [Geowanking] Latitude/Longitude Polygons for world cities > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, 14 January, 2010, 13:00 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Would anyone happen to know of > an open archive of polygons > defining the major cities of the world? > > > > What I am looking for are > series of lat/long points which define > polygons within which the cities lie. > > > > The polygons don’t have > to be terribly accurate, just > reasonably approximate. All the open archives > I’ve come across so > far give the lat/long co-ordinates of the city centres, > rather than polygons which > approximate the boundaries of the cities. > > > > I would be very grateful if > anyone could direct me to such an > archive or archives (even if you just know of one for your > own country or > continent, I am interested) > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Will > > > > > > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
