On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 02:11:35PM -0500, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote: > Hi list! > > 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? > > Thanks! > > — Marcelo Hey Marcelo, I've been working on an admin boundary extraction tool for OSM. The goal is to make these geojson files available for download via mapzen.com similarly to metro extracts (https://mapzen.com/metro-extracts). We aren't there just yet, but the extraction tool is in npm and you can easily make your own extract of whatever region you need. https://github.com/pelias/fences-cli npm install -g fences touch regions.json { "regions": [ { "name": "USA", "box": { "left": -124.848974, "bottom": 24.396308 "right": -66.885444, "top": 49.384358 } } ] } fences create planet-latest.pbf regions.json /tmp/fences-results/ What you get in /tmp/fences-results/ are geojson files with polygons that have "boundary"="administrative" and "admin_level"=*. There should be the full planet set of results as well a directory for each region you've defined in the regions.json file. There is a github issue to add "place"="neighborhood" as well, but they aren't currently being extracted. You can easily just make the addition in the code though, if you need them quickly. Cheers, Diana
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