How to Seek Neighborhood Boundaries Globally

datapolygon

Besides Zillow's creative-commons licensed neighborhood boundaries shapefiles, what sources of neighborhood boundaries are there? Not just in the US, but all over the world.

Free/open source is ideal, but paid sources could be interesting too.

Best Answer

I don't know what the state of mapping with this is, but OpenStreetMap has a place:neighbourhood tag (note the British spelling).

As the boundaries of neighborhoods are often nebulously defined I think no matter the source you will have to understand that using them for anything more than general display/labeling is going to be tricky.