Getting neighbourhood boundaries from Google Maps API

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deastr

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Jan 30, 2012, 1:27:35 AM1/30/12

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While using Google Maps' "What's here" menu I realised it draws neighbourhood borders, as shown here with the dotted line:

Is it possible to get this data in Google Maps API and make my map draw neighbourhood borders of a given point?

John Coryat

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Jan 30, 2012, 10:04:42 AM1/30/12

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I don't know what the source of data Google is using but there are providers of neighborhood data that you can license. Maponics has probably the most complete data set that I know of. You might contact them and see if it fits your requirements.

You can't get the data directly from Google. That dotted line is drawn on the tiles, not passed as data to the browser.