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codeforboston / ungentry

Contributing to the policy discussion about gentrification and possible displacement
http://codeforboston.github.io/ungentry/
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Add Boston Neighborhood Borders and Labels #52

Open mjrouser opened 9 years ago

mjrouser commented 9 years ago

Add the administrative boundaries for the various neighborhoods to assist citizens in locating areas of personal interest.

Boundaries are found here: http://www.cityofboston.gov/neighborhoods/

We need sources for shapefiles.

@beechnut, @allthesignals, do you guys have access to something like that?

allthesignals commented 9 years ago

Neighborhood boundaries are kind of tough. There are multiple definitions of them. So, it depends on how you want to do it. Some people have even crowdsourced that information: http://bostonography.com/2012/crowdsourced-neighborhood-boundaries-part-one-consensus/ .

@japartridge will know some about this as well.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Matthew R. notifications@github.com wrote:

Add the administrative boundaries for the various neighborhoods to assist citizens in locating areas of personal interest.

Boundaries are found here: http://www.cityofboston.gov/neighborhoods/

We need sources for shapefiles.

@beechnut https://github.com/beechnut, @allthesignals https://github.com/allthesignals, do you guys have access to something like that?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/codeforboston/ungentry/issues/52.

Matt Gardner M.S. Urban and Regional Policy Candidate School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs Northeastern University

mjrouser commented 9 years ago

I'm totally aware of that debate, that's why I want to go with administrative boundaries. I know that people will want to quibble, but it at least will be close.

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On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Matt Gardner notifications@github.com wrote:

Neighborhood boundaries are kind of tough. There are multiple definitions of them. So, it depends on how you want to do it. Some people have even crowdsourced that information:

http://bostonography.com/2012/crowdsourced-neighborhood-boundaries-part-one-consensus/ .

@japartridge will know some about this as well.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Matthew R. notifications@github.com wrote:

Add the administrative boundaries for the various neighborhoods to assist citizens in locating areas of personal interest.

Boundaries are found here: http://www.cityofboston.gov/neighborhoods/

We need sources for shapefiles.

@beechnut https://github.com/beechnut, @allthesignals https://github.com/allthesignals, do you guys have access to something like that?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/codeforboston/ungentry/issues/52.

Matt Gardner M.S. Urban and Regional Policy Candidate School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs Northeastern University

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/codeforboston/ungentry/issues/52#issuecomment-76026555 .

djq commented 9 years ago

It is a confusing topic! http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/graphics/071811_boundaries/

I added in boundaries from the BRA, from 2000: https://github.com/codeforboston/ungentry/pull/56