Glossary

Centroid

The geometric centre point of a boundary — its average position.

A centroid is the single lat/lng point that represents the centre of a polygon. It's useful for placing a map marker on an area, labelling a boundary, or computing distances between places without dealing with full geometry.

Every level of the Neighbourly hierarchy — from province to neighbourhood — carries a pre-computed centroid alongside its boundary and bounding box.

Centroid is part of the Neighbourly data platform. Explore the API or browse the data layers.

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