Visualizing Zillow’s ESRI Neighborhood Shapefiles
We whipped up a quick neighborhood finder with polygon overlays to display Zillow’s recently released ESRI neighborhood shapefiles. I applaud the effort to release this information under a Creative Commons license and the attempt to crowdsource future development.
I’ve been looking at neighborhood boundary information for ages and there really is no standardized classification of what defines a “neighborhood”. The most common method of defining a neighborhood is to group tract data by subpopulation and aggregate data in an attempt to create homogenized areas. The NCDB (Neighborhood Change Database) by GeoLytics does this. I’m not an expert in this area yet, so I’d be curious to find out what other methods are employed to define a neighborhood.
Check out the Neighborhood Boundaries.
Neighborhood Boundaries
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