For people interested in the Flickr shapefiles, there's a cleaned up [1]
version of the data as a single 900913-ified shapefile here:
http://shapetiles.spum.org/shapetiles.tar.gz
I forfeited my right to deploy code at Flickr last year, so all I can do
is continue to badger the people still there to release an updated
version of the data...
Cheers,
--
[1] Specifically, no more weird and random database errors included as
XML attributes. That would be my fault and you can thank Seth
Fitzsimmons for fixing my shit [2]
[2] http://github.com/mojodna/flickr-shape-parser
On 9/24/10 7:12 PM, Josh Whiting wrote:
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 <http://blockchalk.com>
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