Changelog

v3.2

Q1 2021

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.
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 at admin-1 but some at admin-2.
- Added UN M49 region and subregion IDs at admin-0.
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.

Q3 2020

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.

Q1 2020

Release blog post

Two new data types, locality and legislative, will be included as part of the product to complement the existing data types of administrative, postal, and statistical.
- 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).
Separated lines and points tilesets that enable the inclusion of names on a map from the points tilesets.

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.

Q4 2019

Release blog post

New iso_3166_1_alpha_3. This field is the ISO 3166-1 or Alpha-3 code that represents a country name.

Q3 2019

Release blog post

Wikidata IDs, translations and aliases added for admin-1 and admin-2 boundaries.

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.