Format isn't a big deal to me. My idea is to stick everything in
PostGIS and provide a service interface that offers various output
formats--probably via GDAL.
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Raj
On Sep 16, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Charles Bolton wrote:
Raj,
I think the issue is how to accumulate and translate all the mapping
schemes. The other issue is what format to use - do we pick the
ESRI format
or use MapInfo's. There are a lot of questions to sort out in
figuring how
to start.
I would be interested in working with a group of people who want to
start
down this trail?
If you are interested, let me know or Raj. It would be helpful if
their was
a professor or graduate teaching assistant in a EIS/Geo department
of a
university who would be willing to contribute the knowledge to get
us moving
down the right path.
Cordially,
Charles Bolton
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Subject: Re: [Geowanking] neighborhood database?
Looks like for Seattle you can get neighborhoods from the library:
http://www5.metrokc.gov/sdc/FGDCDocs/NEIGHBORHOOD_fgdc.htm
or the city for $125:
http://www.seattle.gov/GIS/docs/datacds.htm
In my 10+ years in the urban planning field, I've never come across a
national database of neighborhoods. Yes, in some towns neighborhoods
coincide with wards or census boundaries, but not always.
I'd be very interested in helping out in an effort to develop an open
neighborhood database repository if I had some help.
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Raj
On Sep 15, 2007, at 3:21 PM, Anselm Hook wrote:
Is there a free database of American neighborhood names and polygonal
boundaries.
To elaborate:
For example San Francisco has neighborhoods like 'SOMA' or
'chinatown'
or 'mission'.
My current need is a neighborhood database for Seattle, of which one
appears here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_neighborhoods
It seems like there may be data behind this - I am about to check if
this is just from some publically available census data like census
2000.
Also,
http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~public/nmaps/fullcit2.htm
And
http://transit.metrokc.gov/tops/bus/neighborhoods/region_text.html
But generally speaking is there something comprehensive for the
entire
United States?
- a
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