Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Figure1-6.Zillow neighborhood data
Natural Earth ofers a very clean, accurate, and detailed public domain collection of country and
province boundaries for the entire planet, available for download in bulk (
Figure 1-7
). You'll
need some geo knowledge to convert them into a usable form, but it's not too much of a chal-
lenge. For example, you could load the shapeiles into
PostGIS
and then easily run reverse geo-
code queries to discover which country and state a point lies within.
