| 9 | | == Requirements == |
| 10 | | These should be written as User Stories: BluePrint/Guidelines |
| 11 | | == Data == |
| 12 | | * Boundaries and hierarchy: |
| 13 | | * L0, L1 & L2 are in GADM (done) |
| 14 | | * L3 |
| 15 | | * Tiger: http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles2010/layers.cgi |
| 16 | | * No use for NYC as it puts 1 L3 Borough in each L2 County |
| 17 | | * Brooklyn: http://geocommons.com/overlays/6090 |
| 18 | | * NY State civil boundaries: http://gis.ny.gov/gisdata/inventories/details.cfm?DSID=927 \\ |
| 19 | | "boundaries of incorporated places in New York State (state, counties, cities, towns, villages, and Indian reservations)" \\ |
| 20 | | (Note ocpyrighted.) |
| 21 | | * L4 (Zipcodes) -- polygons and parents |
| 22 | | * NYS |
| 23 | | * http://gis.ny.gov/gisdata/inventories/details.cfm?DSID=934 |
| 24 | | * needs parenting to L3s via http://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/cancer/registry/appendix/neighborhoods.htm (done but this is only for NYC) |
| 25 | | * NJ |
| 26 | | * http://geocommons.com/overlays/22081 |
| 27 | | * Could extract hierarchy from one of these: |
| 28 | | * http://www.brainyzip.com/state/zip_newjersey.html |
| 29 | | * http://newjersey.hometownlocator.com/zip-codes/counties.cfm |
| 30 | | * Important zipcode facts: http://www.maponics.com/products/gis-map-data/maps-reports/zip-code-maps/faqs/ |
| 31 | | * Zipcodes can cross administrative region boundaries. They don't cross state boundaries, but do cross county boundaries. (For the population centers project, when we found a zipcode that spanned admin regions, we partitioned the zipcode -- made one location record for each partition. Names were qualified with the parent region.) |
| 32 | | * Zipcode regions are not technically polygons but rather groups of addresses. |
| 33 | | * USPS neither needs nor maintains boundary polygons. |
| 34 | | * Each zipcode is assigned by USPS to a city, but not by boundary inclusion -- rather, this is by which post office delivers mail to that zipcode. Thus lists of USPS-designated cities cannot be used for the location hierarchy. |
| 35 | | * Zipcodes have a prefix hierarchy. |
| 36 | | * http://stevemorse.org/jcal/zip.html |
| 37 | | * Three-digit zipcode prefixes by state: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ZIP_code_prefixes |
| 38 | | * Full hierarchy w/o shapefiles is available from http://www.zip-codes.com/zip-code-database.asp for US$40. They allow looking up data in batches here http://www.zip-codes.com/search.asp, but would need to copy & paste the table part of the page into a file (not the html, just select the rows in the rendered page). Caution: We do not want to use copyrighted or proprietary material w/o the requisite payment or attribution. Could contact them and inquire about temporary use of the information. |
| | 9 | == Location Data == |
| | 10 | Boundaries and hierarchy: |
| | 11 | * L0, L1 & L2 are in GADM (done) |
| | 12 | * L3 |
| | 13 | * Tiger: http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles2010/layers.cgi |
| | 14 | * No use for NYC as it puts 1 L3 Borough in each L2 County |
| | 15 | * Brooklyn: http://geocommons.com/overlays/6090 |
| | 16 | * NY State civil boundaries: http://gis.ny.gov/gisdata/inventories/details.cfm?DSID=927 \\ |
| | 17 | "boundaries of incorporated places in New York State (state, counties, cities, towns, villages, and Indian reservations)" \\ |
| | 18 | (Note ocpyrighted.) |
| | 19 | * L4 (Zipcodes) -- polygons and parents |
| | 20 | * NYS |
| | 21 | * http://gis.ny.gov/gisdata/inventories/details.cfm?DSID=934 |
| | 22 | * needs parenting to L3s via http://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/cancer/registry/appendix/neighborhoods.htm (done but this is only for NYC) |
| | 23 | * NJ |
| | 24 | * http://geocommons.com/overlays/22081 |
| | 25 | * Could extract hierarchy from one of these: |
| | 26 | * http://www.brainyzip.com/state/zip_newjersey.html |
| | 27 | * http://newjersey.hometownlocator.com/zip-codes/counties.cfm |
| | 28 | * Important zipcode facts: http://www.maponics.com/products/gis-map-data/maps-reports/zip-code-maps/faqs/ |
| | 29 | * Zipcodes can cross administrative region boundaries. They don't cross state boundaries, but do cross county boundaries. (For the population centers project, when we found a zipcode that spanned admin regions, we partitioned the zipcode -- made one location record for each partition. Names were qualified with the parent region.) |
| | 30 | * Zipcode regions are not technically polygons but rather groups of addresses. |
| | 31 | * USPS neither needs nor maintains boundary polygons. |
| | 32 | * Each zipcode is assigned by USPS to a city, but not by boundary inclusion -- rather, this is by which post office delivers mail to that zipcode. Thus lists of USPS-designated cities cannot be used for the location hierarchy. |
| | 33 | * Zipcodes have a prefix hierarchy. |
| | 34 | * http://stevemorse.org/jcal/zip.html |
| | 35 | * Three-digit zipcode prefixes by state: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ZIP_code_prefixes |
| | 36 | * Full hierarchy w/o shapefiles is available from http://www.zip-codes.com/zip-code-database.asp for US$40. They allow looking up data in batches here http://www.zip-codes.com/search.asp, but would need to copy & paste the table part of the page into a file (not the html, just select the rows in the rendered page). Caution: We do not want to use copyrighted or proprietary material w/o the requisite payment or attribution. Could contact them and inquire about temporary use of the information. |
