Philly Hoods

Use this simple API to get data about neighborhoods in Philadelphia.

You can pass a param of ?jsonp= or ?callback= if you require JSONP.

The neighborhood boundaries dataset used in this API is graciously provided by Azavea under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license meaning it can be freely used and shared. Azavea is not involved in any way with this project.

Please also keep in mind that there is no official neighborhood boundary dataset. There are many different versions for Philadelphia. In the future I’d like to include others (see below) to give the user more options.

I’m currently hosting this on the free tier of OpenShift so I’m throttling by IP to three requests/sec. If you go over that you’ll start getting 429 Too Many Requests responses. If you think you’ll need more than this get at me: @ddw17.

Check the status of the API at status.phillyhoods.net

The code is on GitHub.