I've also come across these 2 commercial sources with US data, but don't have any direct experience with them: http://www.maponics.com/ http://www.factle.com/
Curious to hear if anyone else does... Dan Melinger Co-Founder + CEO, Socialight http://socialight.com On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Gregory Arenius <[email protected]>wrote: > For multiple cities I don't know but San Francisco has some neighborhood > polygons available. The SF neighborhoods according to the city planning > department are at > http://gispub02.sfgov.org/website/sfshare/catalog/planning_neighborhoods.zip. > I think there is another one from SF realtors association but it is > different. I mention these because you mentioned SoMa. From what I > remember seeing of the Flickr neighborhood data it was fairly similar if not > as "clean." The neighborhood lines didn't always run along streets the way > the official dataset does. Other cities might have something similar. > > Cheers, > Greg > > > On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 16:57 -0700, Tom Longson (nym) wrote: >>> > Does anyone know where to get neighborhood data (as opposed to city / >>> county)? >>> > >>> > Ideally names like "SoMa" and "Gourmet Ghetto" with a polygon for >>> boundary. >>> >> >> Flickr used geotagged photos to generate shapefiles that include >> neighborhoods, and released the data into the public domain: >> >> http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/10/30/the-shape-of-alpha/ >> >> The data is quite valuable but definitely is not perfect - depending on >> your needs, you may need to curate it. >> >> As another option, Urban Mapping offers a fairly rich >> neighborhood-oriented webservice API on a fee-per-query model. As such you >> won't get the polygons from it; for that you'll need to a direct licensing >> agreement (not sure what their pricing is on that but under low to moderate >> query volume the API would be more cost efficient.) See >> http://www.urbanmapping.com/products/urbanware/neighborhoods/ >> >> So you have the Zillow shapes, Flickr shapes, and Urban Mapping's API as >> the main options as far as I'm aware, each with various pros/cons. I'd be >> curious to hear more about your intended use case. >> >> Anyone know if the OSM folks are thinking at all about neighborhoods? >> >> -Josh W >> blockchalk.com >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > >
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