map polygon data for popular us cities

dear list,
where can i find a list of map polygons for united states cities? any
open database? or tool to obtain correct coordinates?

i googled but couldn't find anything useful.. may be the terms i use
are not the correct keywords :(

any help or advice would be really appreciated.


~viraj

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Re: map polygon data for popular us cities

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On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:30 AM, viraj wrote:

> dear list,
> where can i find a list of map polygons for united states cities? any
> open database? or tool to obtain correct coordinates?
>

A bit offtopic here, but I suspect that most such databases will be
proprietary and thus payable through the nose. Have a look at the
OpenStreetMap project, I suspect their database might be accessible under
some open license.

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RE: map polygon data for popular us cities

Openstreetmap.org is as close as you'll get. I'd be surprised if they have =
shapes for cities beyond just lat/lon point data, but they should have shap=
es data for zips, counties, states and countries if I recall correctly.

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On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:30 AM, viraj wrote:

> dear list,
> where can i find a list of map polygons for united states cities? any
> open database? or tool to obtain correct coordinates?
>

A bit offtopic here, but I suspect that most such databases will be
proprietary and thus payable through the nose. Have a look at the
OpenStreetMap project, I suspect their database might be accessible under
some open license.

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Re: map polygon data for popular us cities

thank you all for the links and notes.

~viraj

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Gavin Towey wrote:
> Openstreetmap.org is as close as you'll get. I'd be surprised if they hav=
e shapes for cities beyond just lat/lon point data, but they should have sh=
apes data for zips, counties, states and countries if I recall correctly.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vegivamp@gmail.com [mailto:vegivamp@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Johan D=
e Meersman
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 7:59 AM
> To: viraj
> Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com
> Subject: Re: map polygon data for popular us cities
>
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:30 AM, viraj wrote:
>
>> dear list,
>> where can i find a list of map polygons for united states cities? any
>> open database? or tool to obtain correct coordinates?
>>
>
> A bit offtopic here, but I suspect that most such databases will be
> proprietary and thus payable through the nose. Have a look at the
> OpenStreetMap project, I suspect their database might be accessible under
> some open license.
>
> --
> Bier met grenadyn
> Is als mosterd by den wyn
> Sy die't drinkt, is eene kwezel
> Hy die't drinkt, is ras een ezel
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Re: map polygon data for popular us cities

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Besides the above,
I recall Flickr (you know the photo-sharing site) being able to extract
(kind of rough) polygons from exif-data of photos (containing lat/longs) .
Since often these photo's are tagged by city they could extract city
boundaries.

See this old posts I dug up quickly, I'm not sure if development is still
active, etc.
http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/10/30/the-shape-of-alpha/
http://biodivertido.blogspot.com/2008/11/flickr-creating-pol ygons-out-of-points.html

hth,
Geert-Jan

2011/2/3 viraj

> thank you all for the links and notes.
>
> ~viraj
>
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Gavin Towey wrote:
> > Openstreetmap.org is as close as you'll get. I'd be surprised if they
> have shapes for cities beyond just lat/lon point data, but they should have
> shapes data for zips, counties, states and countries if I recall correctly.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: vegivamp@gmail.com [mailto:vegivamp@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Johan
> De Meersman
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 7:59 AM
> > To: viraj
> > Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com
> > Subject: Re: map polygon data for popular us cities
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:30 AM, viraj wrote:
> >
> >> dear list,
> >> where can i find a list of map polygons for united states cities? any
> >> open database? or tool to obtain correct coordinates?
> >>
> >
> > A bit offtopic here, but I suspect that most such databases will be
> > proprietary and thus payable through the nose. Have a look at the
> > OpenStreetMap project, I suspect their database might be accessible under
> > some open license.
> >
> > --
> > Bier met grenadyn
> > Is als mosterd by den wyn
> > Sy die't drinkt, is eene kwezel
> > Hy die't drinkt, is ras een ezel
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RE: map polygon data for popular us cities

I remember a few years back I was doing some terrain modeling, and I think
there was a repository of files on a US government web site. It's been so long
that I don't remember what the file format was, but I was importing them into
a 3D graphics program. There might be flattened versions.

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Geert-Jan Brits [mailto:gbrits@gmail.com]
>Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 3:44 AM
>To: viraj
>Cc: Gavin Towey; Johan De Meersman; mysql@lists.mysql.com
>Subject: Re: map polygon data for popular us cities
>
>Besides the above,
>I recall Flickr (you know the photo-sharing site) being able to extract
>(kind of rough) polygons from exif-data of photos (containing lat/longs) .
>Since often these photo's are tagged by city they could extract city
>boundaries.
>
>See this old posts I dug up quickly, I'm not sure if development is still
>active, etc.
>http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/10/30/the-shape-of-alpha/
>http://biodivertido.blogspot.com/2008/11/flickr-creating-po lygons-out-of-
>points.html
>
>hth,
>Geert-Jan
>
>2011/2/3 viraj
>
>> thank you all for the links and notes.
>>
>> ~viraj
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Gavin Towey wrote:
>> > Openstreetmap.org is as close as you'll get. I'd be surprised if they
>> have shapes for cities beyond just lat/lon point data, but they should have
>> shapes data for zips, counties, states and countries if I recall correctly.
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: vegivamp@gmail.com [mailto:vegivamp@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Johan
>> De Meersman
>> > Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 7:59 AM
>> > To: viraj
>> > Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com
>> > Subject: Re: map polygon data for popular us cities
>> >
>> > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:30 AM, viraj wrote:
>> >
>> >> dear list,
>> >> where can i find a list of map polygons for united states cities? any
>> >> open database? or tool to obtain correct coordinates?
>> >>
>> >
>> > A bit offtopic here, but I suspect that most such databases will be
>> > proprietary and thus payable through the nose. Have a look at the
>> > OpenStreetMap project, I suspect their database might be accessible under
>> > some open license.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Bier met grenadyn
>> > Is als mosterd by den wyn
>> > Sy die't drinkt, is eene kwezel
>> > Hy die't drinkt, is ras een ezel
>> >
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RE: map polygon data for popular us cities

You might check here: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/

-Travis

-----Original Message-----
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To: mysql@lists.mysql.com
Subject: map polygon data for popular us cities

dear list,
where can i find a list of map polygons for united states cities? any
open database? or tool to obtain correct coordinates?

i googled but couldn't find anything useful.. may be the terms i use
are not the correct keywords :(

any help or advice would be really appreciated.


~viraj

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Re: map polygon data for popular us cities

http://www.geonames.org/

http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/?C=S;O=D


On 02/02/2011 11:30 AM, viraj wrote:
> dear list,
> where can i find a list of map polygons for united states cities? any
> open database? or tool to obtain correct coordinates?
>
> i googled but couldn't find anything useful.. may be the terms i use
> are not the correct keywords :(
>
> any help or advice would be really appreciated.
>
>
> ~viraj
>

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Re: map polygon data for popular us cities

you might be interested in this:

http://simplegeo.ksikes.net
https://github.com/alexksikes/simplegeo

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Sander de Bruijne wro=
te:
>
> http://www.geonames.org/
>
> http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/?C=3DS;O=3DD
>
>
> On 02/02/2011 11:30 AM, viraj wrote:
>>
>> dear list,
>> where can i find a list of map polygons for united states cities? any
>> open database? or tool to obtain correct coordinates?
>>
>> i googled but couldn't find anything useful.. may be the terms i use
>> are not the correct keywords :(
>>
>> any help or advice would be really appreciated.
>>
>>
>> ~viraj
>>
>
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