The Urbanware Neighborhood API

Urban Mapping, a provider of geospatial data and services released today an API to access its Urbanware Neighborhood database and computation logic for neighborhoods, other informally-defined regions and transit systems. This service include neighborhoods located at a point/location, neighborhoods within a city or bounding box, alternative neighborhood names, relationships with other neighborhoods (nesting, aliases, dominance), multi-lingual support, intersecting postal codes and intersecting municipalities.

Relation to my thesis: Human’s perspective of the space hardly translates to its digital definition stored geographic information systems (see Defining Neighborhoods and User-Centered Approach on Geodata). I am eager to play around with the Urbanware API (the dataset includes Barcelona)