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Get neighborhood boundaries #1

Open sapid opened 9 years ago

sapid commented 9 years ago

Google Maps has an API for drawing polygons over it. https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/shapes#polygons

Google has no API for fetching neighborhood boundaries. https://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=109

It looks like Zillow has released a lot of neighborhood polygons for free: http://www.zillow.com/howto/api/neighborhood-boundaries.htm

Flickr has "shape files" which will probably be a pain to parse through: http://code.flickr.net/2009/05/21/flickr-shapefiles-public-dataset-10/

LiveHoods is a similar project using FourSquare checkins. http://livehoods.org/ EDIT: Doesn't have Detroit

Is http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3aplace=neighbourhood related? I don't think so.

sapid commented 9 years ago

For Detroit specifically...

From ArcGIS OpenData

Neighborhoods, Detroit (Updated Feb 16, 2014) Masterplan Neighborhoods (Feb 14, 2014)

Other

https://github.com/hampelm/Detroit-Boundaryservice/tree/master/data/shapefiles/neighborhoods

Map of property ownership (no shapefiles)