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Add Boston Neighborhood Borders and Labels #52

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mjrouser opened this issue Feb 25, 2015 · 3 comments
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Add Boston Neighborhood Borders and Labels #52

mjrouser opened this issue Feb 25, 2015 · 3 comments

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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?

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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/
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@japartridge will know some about this as well.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Matthew R. [email protected]
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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?


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

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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 [email protected]
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. [email protected]
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
#52.

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


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djq commented Mar 4, 2015

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

I added in boundaries from the BRA, from 2000: #56

@mjrouser mjrouser added the ready label Mar 4, 2015
@mjrouser mjrouser added this to the 1.0 Release milestone Mar 4, 2015
@mjrouser mjrouser modified the milestones: 1.5, 1.0 Release May 13, 2015
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