Changelog
v3.2
Q1 2021
Worldviews / Disputes
- Add Nogorno Karabkh disputed area boundary based on 1994 ceasefire line.
- Add Kuril and Dokdo-ri islands to Japan worldview.
Metadata
- New
grouping_attribute
. This JSON string captures relevant "groupings" or "aggregated areas" that the individual feature is a part of. Initial data additions include:- Added UN M49 region and subregion names at
admin-0
.
- Added UN M49 region and subregion names at
- New
joined_attribute
. This JSON string lists codes that are helpful for joining data against the feature.- Added ISO 3166-2 codes as part of
join_attributes
, primarily atadmin-1
but some atadmin-2
. - Added UN M49 region and subregion IDs at
admin-0
.
- Added ISO 3166-2 codes as part of
- Significant improvements to fill rates and density of metadata attributes:
- Added
admin-0
full language coverage for all Mapbox Streets-supported languages. - 100% Wikidata and municipality code coverage for France, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Czech.
- Ukraine and Poland name and alias improvements.
- Added
Data coverage improvements
- Refresh of EU admin, postal, and statistical layers
- New Admin coverage including Monaco quartiers, Hong Kong districts, Isle of Man districts, and Jersey parishes.
- New Stats coverage including Canada census subdivisions, Ireland LAU1 and 2, Norway okonomisk regioner, four New Zealand layers, and Isle of Man sheadings.
- New Legislative coverage including three New Zealand layers, Ireland Local Electoral Areas, and France cantons.
v3.1
Q3 2020
Data coverage improvements
- Refresh of Australia, Asia, and Africa that includes over 150K new polygons in additional coverage.
- African countries with new layers are Algeria, Ghana and Kenya.
- APAC countries with new layers are Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, UAE, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
v3.0
Q1 2020
Data types and tilesets
- Two new data types,
locality
andlegislative
, will be included as part of the product to complement the existing data types ofadministrative
,postal
, andstatistical
.- The
locality
data type will have 4 levels that aim to capture local expectations of settlements that have non-official or fuzzy areas: Level 1 = Metro --> Level 2 = City --> Level 3 = District --> Level 4 = Neighborhood. - The
legislative
data type will have 5 levels that capture electoral boundaries: Level 1 = National Upper (aka US Senate) --> Level 2 = National Lower (aka US House of Representatives) --> Level 3 = Regional Upper (State Senate) --> Level 4 = Regional Lower (State House) --> Level 5 = Local (Community or Town specific boundaries).
- The
- Separated lines and points tilesets that enable the inclusion of names on a map from the points tilesets.
Worldviews / Disputes
- New Japanese worldview.
Data coverage improvements
- US scope expanded to include
cities
and municipalities. The definition of a city is fluid in how it’s used and perceived by people. To avoid misrepresenting a boundary, we used several data types and levels to properly capture US city and municipality boundary polygons. Admin
, level 3 = US county sub-divisions that are active governments or entities with designated officials that provide primary general-purpose functions to their residents.Admin
, level 4 = US census incorporated places (excludes Census Designated Places, or CDPs, which are only statistical).Stats
, level 3 = all US county sub-divisions (all serve a statistical purpose, while only some serve an administrative purpose).Locality
, level 2 = this level was created to provide a one-stop location to provide what people colloquially refer to as a city in the US. It is constructed by using all US county sub-divisions as a basis, then adding all US census places (both incorporated and CDPs).- Completed a full review of all global Administrative boundaries, which resulted in recategorizing several boundaries to a statistical or legislative level as the purpose, function, or both purpose and function of those boundaries was changed by the government.
v2.2
Q4 2019
Metadata
- New
iso_3166_1_alpha_3
. This field is the ISO 3166-1 or Alpha-3 code that represents a country name.
Data coverage improvements
- 228,000 new boundaries including complete, global admin-1 coverage.
- Refresh to the Caribbean and South Pacific regions.
- Updates to US postal-4 (5-digit zip code) layer.
v2.1
Q3 2019
Metadata
- Wikidata IDs, translations and aliases added for admin-1 and admin-2 boundaries.
Data coverage improvements
- Added two million new boundaries, increasing our data coverage in over 100 countries.
- Statistical — Over 275,000 new US Census boundaries including metropolitan areas, micropolitan areas, tracts, and block groups.
- Statistical — Almost 2,000 new European NUTS (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) areas across three hierarchical levels
- Postal — Full detail Postal-4 coverage for countries such as the UK, Netherlands, South Korea and Japan.