This repo hosts South Korea administrative division geodata in open formats that can be used to build static and interactive maps (e.g. with D3), and was inspired by swiss-maps.
The following formats are available:
shp,
kml/kmz,
svg,
GeoJSON,
TopoJSON,
and RData.
Data is acquired from the following sources:
- KOSTAT: Administrative division geodata for Census (센서스용 행정구역경계), 2011
- GADM: Global administrative areas
- POPONG: Hand-traced (for production)
South Korean administrative divisions are consisted of three levels:
- Provinces (시도): Special City(특별시), Metropolitan City(광역시), Province(도), Special Self-governing Province(특별자치도), Special Self-governing City(특별자치시)
- Municipalities (시군구): Si (시, city), Gun (군, county), Gu (구, district)
- Submunicipalities (읍면동): Eup (읍, town), Myeon (면, township), Dong (동, neighborhood), Ri (리, village)
- Precinct: TBA
The following data are available.
Numbers are data sizes in the following order: Country border, Provinces, Municipalities, Submunicipalities.
| Format \ Source | KOSTAT | GADM | POPONG |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESRI Shapefile | 0, 9.7, 19.4, 47.6 | 5.5, 5.5, 5.8, 0 | 0 |
| KML/KMZ | 0, 23.7, 47.4, 116.9 | 1.5, 1.5, 1.7, 0 | 0 |
| SVG | 0, 0.3, 0.5, 1.5 | 0 | 0, 14KB, 0, 0 |
| GeoJSON | 0 | 15.2, 15.4, 16.1, 0 | 0 |
| TopoJSON | 0 | 1.5, 1.5, 1.6, 0 | 0 |
| RData | 0 | 1.0, 1.0, 1.2, 0 | 0 |
(Units in MBs if not noted.)
Created from shapefiles with ogr2ogr -f kml [filename].kml [filename].shp.
SVGs are generated with QGIS's SimpleSVG plugin.
To download data files, run:
make get_gadm
Created from shapefiles with ogr2ogr -f geojson [filename]-geo.json [filename].shp.
Created from GeoJSON files with topojson [filename]-geo.json -o [filename]-topo.json --properties.
- Provinces: GADM TopoJSON, POPONG SVG
- Municipalities: GADM TopoJSON
- KOSTAT: Free to share or remix.
- GADM: For non-commercial purposes only. Redistribution not allowed.
- POPONG:
