nballenger / geojson-places-us

Script and data for generating a consolidated list of GeoJSON objects for places in the United States. 🇺🇸

This repository includes data from multiple sources, and a script which consolidates the data to create a flat list of annotated GeoJSON objects representing the boundaries of a large number of places in the United States and its territories:

• The United States itself
• Each state and territory
• Each county
• Each census-designated place (e.g. cities and towns)
• Each ZIP Code Tabulation area

Generating the list is as simple as 1-2-3:

sh 1-extract.sh
sh 2-convert.sh
python 3-consolidate.py > places.ndjson

Running the script requires that ogr2ogr be installed (it's available in the Debian package gdal-bin) and that the geojson Python library be installed.

This repository includes CC-BY data from GeoNames (http://download.geonames.org/export/zip/), and public-domain data from the US Census Bureau (https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-cart-boundary.html).