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.
--- 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 _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
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