Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Applied Science
Journal Title
PLoS ONE
Pub Date
4-2020
Publisher
PLoS
Volume
15
Issue
4
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Abstract
We present the geoBoundaries Global Administrative Database (geoBoundaries): an online, open license resource of the geographic boundaries of political administrative divisions (i.e., state, county). Contrasted to other resources geoBoundaries (1) provides detailed information on the legal open license for every boundary in the repository, and (2) focuses on provisioning highly precise boundary data to support accurate, replicable scientific inquiry. Further, all data is released in a structured form, allowing for the integration of geoBoundaries with large-scale computational workflows. Our database has records for every country around the world, with up to 5 levels of administrative hierarchy. The database is accessible at http://www.geoboundaries.org, and a static version is archived on the Harvard Dataverse.
Recommended Citation
Runfola, Daniel; Anderson, Austin; Baier, Heather; Crittenden, Matt; Dowker, Elizabeth; Goodman, Seth; and et al., geoBoundaries: A Global Database of Political Administrative Boundaries (2020). PLoS ONE, 15(4).
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231866
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231866
