Division Objects

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Basic Details

id

Open Civic Data division ID.

country

Two-letter ISO-3166 alpha-2 country code. (e.g. ‘us’, ‘ca’)

display_name

Human-readable name for division.

Additional Fields

geometries

A list of associated geometries, each of which has the following fields:

start

Best approximation of date boundary became effective.

end

Best approximation of date boundary was replaced or made obsolete (null for current boundaries).

boundary

Boundary object- fields are determined from underlying data source, but always provides:

centroid

Object containing the centroid, not guaranteed to be within the object.

Example:

{ "type": "Point", "coordinates": [-176.59989528409687, 51.88215100813731] }

extent

Object describing the extents. [left-most, lower-most, right-most, upper-most]

Example:

[ -176.71309799999997, 51.80080899999999, -176.46673599999997, 51.95761899999999 ]

children

A list of child jurisdiction ids.