Hi Marcelo, On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 02:11:35PM -0500, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote: > I’m wondering if OpenStreetMap provides the shapefiles or geojson for > neighbourhoods around the world, specifically the polygon boundaries for > them? So far, the most reliable places I’ve found for this data were, in > order of > reliability: google maps (not open source and the data isn’t available), > maponics (commercial API), quattroshapes (from foursquare, open source). > > Quattroshapes is not bad, and has quite a few neighborhoods polygons for > major cities around the world, however I’d still like to know if > OpenStreetMap also provides this data? If so, where could I fetch it from?
You can use Nominatim to download boundaries for a single object but it is not good for mass download. For downloading boundaries from OpenStreetMap data, have a look at OSM Boundaries: https://osm.wno-edv-service.de/boundaries/ Regards Sarah _______________________________________________ Geocoding mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/geocoding
