[CALMAP:358] Zillow Releases Neighborhood Boundaries

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    from O'Reilly Radar =
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    By Brady Forrest

    Zillow Labs <http://www.zillow.com/labs/Labs.htm> has released =
    <http://www.zillowblog.com/7000-neighborhood-boundary-files-in-shapefile-=
    format/2008/01/> the neighborhood boundaries of almost 7,000 US =
    neighborhoods and 150 cites. The data is being shared under a =
    Share-Alike, Attribution-Required Creative Commons license. On the =
    detail page <http://www.zillow.com/labs/NeighborhoodBoundaries.htm> =
    you'll be able to find "zipped neighborhood boundary file for each state =
    in the shapefile geographic format".=20

    This comes just a week after Urban Mapping released their free =
    neighborhood API <http://urbanmapping.com/freehoods> (Radar post =
    <http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/01/urban-mapping-free-neighborhoo=
    d-api.html> ). Suddenly the geo community has two neighborhood APIs to =
    choose from. The reality is that they overlap in functionality (UM has =
    more neighborhoods and is easy to use for neogeographers, while Zillow =
    has released boundaries) and they will most likely be used together -- =
    after somebody does the work of syncing them.=20

    (via GeoWanking =
    <http://lists.burri.to/pipermail/geowanking/2008-January/date.html> via =
    Spatially Adjusted =
    <http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2008/01/16/zillow-releases-their-neighb=
    orhood-boundary-layer-over-7000-neighborhoods-available-to-download/> )=20

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    Kris Kasianovitz
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    Government Information
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    post</A>). Suddenly the geo community has two neighborhood APIs to =
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