Who's on First Boundaries
Overview
This dataset contains administrative and cultural boundaries
located in the United States. It includes place types region
(i.e. state),
county
, locality
(i.e. town/city), macrohood
(e.g. East Los Angeles),
neighbourhood
, and borough
(e.g The Bronx).
Data from Who's On First. License: https://whosonfirst.org/docs/licenses/ Who's On First data is derived from multiple sources under the Creative Commons License. Specific sources of the data in this dataset and their licenses include:
- Quattroshapes (CC BY 2.0)
- Metazen (CC0)
- Zetashapes (Public Domain) -- including data obtained via the Flickr API
- Pediacities (ODC-By, v1.0)
- Washington Post (CC-BY)
- http://chicagomap.zolk.com (CC BY 3.0 US)
- Azavea (CC BY 3.0 US)
- Atlanta Department of Planning and Community Development (CC BY 4.0)
- City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (Public Domain)
- Baltimore Mayor`s Office of Information Technology (Attribution 3.0 Unported)
- Oakland Community and Economic Development Department (Public Domain)
- City of San Francisco (PDDL 1.0)
- Seattle City GIS Program (Public Domain)
- Denver Department of Community Planning and Development (CC BY 3.0)
- City of New Orleans, Office of IT and Innovation, Enterprise Information Team (CC0)
- City of Los Angeles Neighborhood Councils (CC0)
- Natural Earth (Public Domain)
- City of Santa Barbara (Public Domain)
- Boston Redevelopment Authority (CC0)
- San Diego GIS (CC0)
- Open Information Saint Paul (CC0)
- City of Cambridge Geographic Information System Department (CC BY)
- San Jose Planning Department (CC0)
Attributes
wof_id | Who's On First id for the boundary | string |
placetype | place type (see https://whosonfirst.org/docs/placetypes/) | string |
name | place name | string |
abrv_eng | place name abbreviation (English) | string |
longname_eng | place long name (English) | string |
preferred_name_eng | place preferred name (English) | string |
iso_country | ISO code of containing country | string |
wof_continent_id | wof id of containing continent | string |
wof_country_id | wof id of containing country | string |
wof_region_id | wof id of containing region/state | string |
wof_county_id | wof id of containing county | string |
wof_locality_id | wof id of containing locality/city | string |
population | population as recorded by Who's on First (sources vary by country; see here) | integer |
population_rank | a number indicating relative population range; 14=10M+ (urban areas); 10=200k-500k; 5=5k-10k | integer |