Where can I find data for the boundary of Fort Lauderdale, Florida? I'd like to load the data into carto.com to create a map.
I looked on their gis website, but I couldn't find an outline of the city itself.
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openstreetmap.org is always a good place to check first, though the answers below appaer better.– user3856Commented Mar 19, 2018 at 21:28
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@BarryCarter Thanks for pointing that out. I will check their in the future. Unfortunately they don't seem to have the kind of boundary data I'm looking for. I searched for Fort Lauderdale, which it found, but without the boundary.– Ryan GatesCommented Mar 19, 2018 at 23:51
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I'll doublecheck, but they should have everything TIGER/LINE has plus lots more.– user3856Commented Mar 20, 2018 at 2:50
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You can get political boundaries from the Florida Geographic Data Library.
Use the metadata tool: under content choose "Admin & Political Bounds", then scroll down to, for example, "CITY LIMITS - DERIVED FROM FLORIDA PARCEL DATA - 2015"
here's the metadata overview
You can download from the TIGER Geodatabases page. Under Download State Level Geodatabases choose Florida, and then in the Incorporated_Place layer find the row with NAMELSAD = 'Fort Lauderdale city'. It looks like this, which I think is fairly accurate:
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Was this map created using ESRI? What is the format of the data? Commented Mar 20, 2018 at 1:21
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Please see the first paragraph on the linked page:
TIGER Geodatabases are spatial extracts from the Census Bureau’s MAF/TIGER database for use with Esri’s ArcGIS. However, Open Source GIS such as QGIS also support the Geodatabase format.– GavinRCommented Mar 20, 2018 at 12:42