Provides convenient method to download Seattle related shapefiles and convert some of them to TopoJSON format.
Inspired by Bostock's world-atlas.
Idea copied from and based on Justin Palmer's portland-atlas.
Before you can run make
, you’ll need to install Node
and ogr2ogr
and some other prereqs. If you are on Mac OS X, and using Homebrew then just run:
brew install node
brew install gdal
brew install cairo
And then, from this repository’s root directory, install the dependencies:
npm install
If you run into problems with installing node-canvas
, you might need to setup your PKG_CONFIG_PATH
like so:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/X11/lib/pkgconfig
This comes from the node-canvas OSX install page.
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Neighborhoods | Building Footprints | Streets |
Parks | Zoning | Trees |
Shorelines | Streams | Addresses |
Census Tracts | School Districts | Block Groups |
Beach Access | Geo Names | Tribal Lands |
All Make Targets can be run using make. Example:
make shp/buildings.shp
shp/osm.shp
Shapefiles from Metro Extracts.
shp/buildings.shp
2009 building footprints from Data Portal
shp/neighborhoods.shp
Neighborhood outlines from Data Portal
shp/streets.shp
Street Network data from Data Portal
shp/parks.shp
Parks from Data Portal
shp/zoning.shp
Zoning from Data Portal
shp/trees.shp
Tree locations from Data Portal
shp/shorelines.shp
Shoreline data from Data Portal
shp/streams.shp
stream data from Data Portal
shp/urban-villages.shp
from Data Portal
shp/tracts.shp
Census Tracts for Washington - from Census
shp/beach-access.shp
Beach Access Sites from WA Ecology Dept
shp/geo-names.shp
Geographic Names Information System from WA Ecology Dept
GeoJSON conversion should work for any of the above shapefiles. The make command uses geo
as the sub-directory. So, for example, to make a geoJSON file for neighborhoods, it would look something like:
geo/neighborhoods.json
Note the geo
prefix and the .json
extension.
There are also a few geoJSON specific files:
geo/starbucks.json - location of all starbucks
topo/neighborhoods.json
topo/parks.json
Here are some other links for GIS / Shapefile data for Washington / Seattle: