Add Boston Neighborhood Borders and Labels

[mjrouser]

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?

[allthesignals]

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]
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?

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#52.

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

[mjrouser]

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?

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#52.

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

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[djq]

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