Administrative boundaries at any level (geoBoundaries)#

admin-boundaries · theme boundaries · live

ADM0 to ADM5 units for any country from geoBoundaries’ open release (counties, districts, municipalities…).

import easysnowdata as esd

aoi = (-121.94, 46.72, -121.54, 46.99)   # Mount Rainier
admin_gdf = esd.boundaries.admin.admin(aoi)

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Every route to this product is open. Nothing to set up.

Sources#

source

provider

credentials

resolution

extent

temporal

latency

notes

geoboundaries (default)

vector_http

none

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global

continuously updated

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ADM0-ADM5; one country per request through the gbOpen API, GeoJSON cached per release

Where each route points#

geoboundaries — geoBoundaries (gbOpen) live

https://www.geoboundaries.org/api/current/gbOpen/<ISO3>/ADM<level>/

Variables#

variable

units

dtype

nodata

categorical

name

—

—

—

no

iso3

—

—

—

no

admin_level

—

—

—

no

Provenance#

Licence · CC BY 4.0 for most countries (each unit carries its boundaryLicense)

DOI · 10.1371/journal.pone.0231866

Cite the data as

Runfola, D. et al. (2020). geoBoundaries: A global database of political administrative boundaries. PLoS ONE 15(4): e0231866.

Documentation

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