This package provides maps and spatial data for all countries and their sub-divisions from the GADM dataset. It fetches the data dynamically from the officially hosted database and provides a minimal wrapper API to get boundary data of your required region.

Installation

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] add GADM

Usage

Given the country name and official full names of subdivisions, get function will
return polygons/multipolygons which satisfy the interfaces of GeoInterface.

import GADM

# GADM.get(<country>, <province/state>, <district>, <city>, ...)

# get boundary of the country India
bm = GADM.get("IND")

# get boundary of the state/province Uttar Pradesh in  India
bm = GADM.get("IND", "Uttar Pradesh")

# get boundary of the district Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, India
bm = GADM.get("IND", "Uttar Pradesh", "Lucknow")

• Country Code follows the ISO 3166 Alpha 3 standard, you can find the code for your country here.
• Other parameters require full official names.

Credits

GADM, the Database of Global Administrative Areas, is a high-resolution database of country administrative areas, with a goal of "all countries, at all levels, at any time period." The database is available in a few export formats, including shapefiles that are used in most common GIS applications.