Pincode Boundaries of India

shravan

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Hey everyone,

I am looking for pin code boundaries of India, preferably in any of the GIS file formats ( kml, kmz, shp, geojson or any other ). It would be nice if someone can point me in the right direction, where I can get this data from.

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Shravan

Jaisen Nedumpala

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Hi Shravan,

I don't think that you would get it that easy. I was in search of this data, since the year 2008. Eventually I could understand that even the department of posts doesnt have this data. We could do it as a community project to build it. Not easy, but not impossible.

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Hi Shravan,

another option - depending on what you are after - could be to use
Devdatta's point data for post offices, voronoi it into polygons, and
aggregate by pincode - that might not be the same as official
boundaries, but the closest you can get (each locality in India would be
assigned to the most proximate postoffice...)

Best,
Raphael

On 17.03.2016 06:18, Jaisen Nedumpala wrote:
> Hi Shravan,
>
> I don't think that you would get it that easy. I was in search of this
> data, since the year 2008. Eventually I could understand that even the
> department of posts doesnt have this data. We could do it as a community
> project to build it. Not easy, but not impossible.
>
>
> 2016-03-17 10:32 GMT+05:30 shravan <shrava...@gmail.com

> <mailto:shrava...@gmail.com>>:

>
> Hey everyone,
>
> I am looking for pin code boundaries of India, preferably in any of
> the GIS file formats ( kml, kmz, shp, geojson or any other ). It
> would be nice if someone can point me in the right direction, where
> I can get this data from.
>
> Thanks,
> Shravan
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shravan

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Mar 17, 2016, 5:00:33 AM3/17/16

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Thanks guys!

I think we can start a community project to build these boundaries. How about using OpenStreetMap to trace these boundaries. Ideas, suggestions are welcome.

Thanks Raphael, I think I'll use the point to polygon method for now.

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Shravan

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Dilip Damle

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Mar 21, 2016, 3:45:07 AM3/21/16

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One could then supers impose tehsil boundaries which are available and fine tune the boundaries

shravan

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Hi Dilip,

Where can I get the Tehsil boundaries from?

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Shravan

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Yogesh

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Hi Shravan,

You can get them either from gadm[1] where there are some restrictions on the use of data or from OSM boundaries[2] site where the data is available under ODbL. But I'm not sure whether Tehsils of all Indian states have been mapped in OSM and also gadm data may not be complete/accurate.

[1]http://www.gadm.org/download
[2]https://osm.wno-edv-service.de/boundaries/

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Arun Ganesh

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It would be interesting to know how postal boundaries are defined officially. I have asked a couple of postmasters and the most even they have is a hand drawn diagram of the postman's beat.

Arun Ganesh

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Ma-roof M

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I would think that the tehsil/taluka boundaries would be a union of respective village/town boundaries.

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Jaisen Nedumpala

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2016-03-22 0:26 GMT+05:30 Arun Ganesh <arung...@gmail.com>:

It would be interesting to know how postal boundaries are defined officially. I have asked a couple of postmasters and the most even they have is a hand drawn diagram of the postman's beat.

Usually the service area of each post office (in rural areas) are displayed on a board as a hand-drawn diagram.

Jaisen Nedumpala

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2016-03-22 9:33 GMT+05:30 Ma-roof M <mahr...@gmail.com>:

I would think that the tehsil/taluka boundaries would be a union of respective village/town boundaries.

Tehsil/Taluk boundaries are a union of respective revenue village boundaries. Not to be confused with the village panchayat/municipality boundaries.

Ma-roof M

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True. revenue village is what I had in mind. not the GPs.

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shravan

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Thank You guys. I think we should use the power of crowd sourcing / community project to define these boundaries on OpenStreetMap. Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks,

Shravan

Dilip Damle

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Mar 22, 2016, 11:29:19 AM3/22/16

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HI,

Precise Pincode Boundaries may actually have a more complicated relationship with other boundaries than we think.

Because of the following reasons.

1. The current 6 digit pincode is a unique number of a group of villages/localities towns. and there is no next level to differentiate a village within that.
2. There are more than one post offices under one pin code especially branch offices which have no unique code.
3. The most important. :: The objective of pincode is not concerned with the area of land under forest agriculture and any other activity except human habitation.

4. Because of 3 there could be distict possibilty that revenue boundaries which deal with entire land may even cross pincode boundaries at places.

So end result is .... Every house and every building will (ideally) have a unique pincode and a unique postoffice within that from where it is served. These will form a cluster of points and then we could aggregate them to form polygons which may have nothing or little to do with other boundaries.

Arun Ganesh

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Shravan, crowdsourcing the boundaries of pincodes is not as trivial as you think. To start with, an area does not fall under a pincode, rather a street does based on the post office that services it. Read this: http://www.georeference.org/doc/zip_codes_are_not_areas.htm

You may also want to do some background reading of existing research that has been done by the group here: https://datameet.hackpad.com/M4hPFJVV2Gm?eid=v4YoXN4tTw5

To sum up, nobody has precise pincode boundaries like how you imagine them, not even the postal department. Any existing datasets are an estimate at best using some data processing on a large volume of address data.

srinivas kodali

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Well, There were postal delivery zones in the past and the postal department even used to make maps of these zones. The Delhi postal delivery zone map had boundaries for delhi. I am not sure if other cities had them or how long the postal department was doing this, but it certainly can help with the boundaries for cities.

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Avinash Celestine

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perhaps one way is to avoid using postal data altogether.

All header pages in electoral rolls(the first page) contain the name of the polling station related to that roll, the PS number, and importantly the pin code.

A site like psleci.nic.in has geog coordinates of polling stations (though Raphael had collected the data earlier*). Matching the two will give a fairly dense scattering of points - in fact much more dense than if we used some of the methods earlier in this thread.

We thus have a way of associating a pin code with a geo coordinate. We can then use the voronoi method.

Electoral rolls are mostly in pdf which make them difficult to scrape. But from what i have seen, for any given state, the location on the header page, of the pincode number is more or less constant, making it possible to target just that part of the page with any pdf parser.

Electoral rolls have become difficult to download in bulk( a good thing!) but i understand different people on this group have the pdfs for different states. Putting this stuff together should give us comprehensive data on header pages for atleast some states. Alternatively, we can file RTIs for just the header pages of electoral rolls, though i dont know how successful that would be.

* Raphael's data is at https://github.com/raphael-susewind/india-election-data

Raphael Susewind

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Dear Avinash and all,

I will try to make some time this week to scrape the pincodes from
electoral rolls for all polling booths in my electoral GIS shapefiles.

Since pincode is in latin script, this should not be affected by the
much discussed PDF scraping issues with electoral rolls.

We could then either go down the voronoi route, or alternatively use the
heatmap processing chain that I used to generate AC boundaries - this
latter would have the advantage of dealing with wrong coordinates in the
booth point dataset (basically, not all electoral booth coordinates are
correct; consequently, if we only voronoi, we would have a blip of
pincode B within a see of pincode A quite frequently. The heatmap stuff
takes care of this).

Since I am not familiar with postal boundaries: can anyone here confirm
whether pincode areas are contiguous, and whether each pincode has only
one area? Or can it be that several non-contiguous areas have the same
pincodem intersparsed with other pincodes? (In which case voronoi would
perhaps be the better solution at last)

In any case, I hope to give you the pincode for each polling booth by
end of the week or so (based on all-India 2014 electoral rolls),

Best,
Raphael

On 28.03.2016 06:33, Avinash Celestine wrote:

> perhaps one way is to avoid using postal data altogether.
>
> All header pages in electoral rolls(the first page) contain the name of
> the polling station related to that roll, the PS number, and importantly
> the pin code.
>

> A site like psleci.nic.in <http://psleci.nic.in> has geog coordinates

> of polling stations (though Raphael had collected the data earlier*).
> Matching the two will give a fairly dense scattering of points - in
> fact much more dense than if we used some of the methods earlier in this
> thread.
>
> We thus have a way of associating a pin code with a geo coordinate. We
> can then use the voronoi method.
>
> Electoral rolls are mostly in pdf which make them difficult to scrape.
> But from what i have seen, for any given state, the location on the
> header page, of the pincode number is more or less constant, making it
> possible to target just that part of the page with any pdf parser.
>
> Electoral rolls have become difficult to download in bulk( a good
> thing!) but i understand different people on this group have the pdfs
> for different states. Putting this stuff together should give us
> comprehensive data on header pages for atleast some states.
> Alternatively, we can file RTIs for just the header pages of electoral
> rolls, though i dont know how successful that would be.
>
> * Raphael's data is
> at https://github.com/raphael-susewind/india-election-data
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 12:07 PM, srinivas kodali <iota....@gmail.com
> <mailto:iota....@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Well, There were postal delivery zones in the past and the postal
> department even used to make maps of these zones. The Delhi postal
> delivery zone map

> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1RcWLku0ZOWWVBHMldrZWdfZEU/view?usp=sharing> had

> boundaries for delhi. I am not sure if other cities had them or how
> long the postal department was doing this, but it certainly can help
> with the boundaries for cities.
>
> Regards,
> Srinivas Kodali

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>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 9:29 PM, Arun Ganesh <arung...@gmail.com
> <mailto:arung...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Shravan, crowdsourcing the boundaries of pincodes is not as
> trivial as you think. To start with, an area does not fall under
> a pincode, rather a street does based on the post office that
> services it. Read
> this: http://www.georeference.org/doc/zip_codes_are_not_areas.htm
>
> You may also want to do some background reading of existing
> research that has been done by the group
> here: https://datameet.hackpad.com/M4hPFJVV2Gm?eid=v4YoXN4tTw5
>
> To sum up, nobody has precise pincode boundaries like how you
> imagine them, not even the postal department. Any existing
> datasets are an estimate at best using some data processing on a
> large volume of address data.
>
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Nice.

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FYI

#Pincode

I had spoken a week back to a friend from the Indian Postal service regarding pincode layers, here's what she replied :

"We do not have an official map yet. Currently am working in geotagging all our post offices with delivery boundaries. We have geotagged 150000 post offices. Drawing pincode boundaries with ISRO. Hope to provide public access in 4-5 months."

So will check with her again in August.

#Geocodes #GLC

On a related matter, I was wondering what the group's knowledge is on standardised codes for government properties. To explain - in the last couple of months I have been struggling with poorly specified addresses provided by Government authorities for purposes as diverse as Chennai rain shelter locations to assembly election polling booths. If the rain shelter information provided was maddeningly obfuscatory, the polling booth entries were uniquely different for the SAME polling station location. Extensive manual cleanup by volunteers had to happen before it could even be processed by the polling booth access audit app.

My question is this :

Surely as part of data.gov.in an initiative that standardises data collection codes across departments and ministries can be developed which will save everyone a lot of time and effort? So while the thrust would be on ALL government buildings initially - layers like schools, parks, post-office, revenue office, ration shop etc should be available on a drill down basis.

So if one needs to reference a particular postoffice in rural Tamil Nadu - a code comprising standard census state, district downwards code + rural / urban indicator + administrative allotment (political, centre vs state cs Municipal vs panchayat) + purpose indicator + building particulars (toilet availability, parking facility etc)

Something open and internationally standard on these lines with scope for evolution and addiition is what I'm imagining - http://vcgi.vermont.gov/sites/vcgi/files/standards/partii_section_j.pdf - does anything like this exist? Is it on the cards? What IS the international open standard adopted across governments?

Looking forward to the group's thoughts / knowledge in this respect.

Vaishnavi

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Dear all,

following up on my earlier email, I just pushed a list of pincodes for
all electoral booths across India to GitHub and made a pull request to
the datameet repository:

https://github.com/datameet/pincodes/pull/2

Please note that this can be incomplete, and is based on a rather
brutish, quick and dirty hack - see comments in rolls2pincode.pl. But it
does use the same IDs as those in the 2014 elections, and hence can be
combined with my GIS shapefiles for polling booths:

http://dx.doi.org/10.4119/unibi/2674065

I leave it to others to double-check accuracy and create actual pincode
maps. I hope this is useful,

Best,
Raphael

Avinash Celestine

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Thanks v much Raphael. This is great.

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Hi Raphael,

Firstly, thanks a lot for extracting this information.

I was looking at http://dx.doi.org/10.4119/unibi/2674065, but I could find only the Boundaries for the constituencies.

Can you tell us where we can find the locations of the polling booths that you had extracted?

Secondly, can you also share (if you still have them) the heatmaps code that you used to create the constituency boundaries? I think that is what will be required to create the pincode boundaries as well.

Regards,

Dev

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Hi Dev,

there are state/state.boothraw.* shapefiles, these should contain the
raw polling booth locations.

Heatmap scripts are terribly customized - I would have to look into this
myself, I am afraid, which could take some time (very busy)....

You would have to go with voronois for now, sorry,

Best,
Raphael

On 02.04.2016 09:02, Devdatta Tengshe wrote:
> Hi Raphael,
>
> Firstly, thanks a lot for extracting this information.
>
> I was looking at http://dx.doi.org/10.4119/unibi/2674065, but I could
> find only the Boundaries for the constituencies.
>
> Can you tell us where we can find the locations of the polling booths
> that you had extracted?
>
> Secondly, can you also share (if you still have them) the heatmaps code
> that you used to create the constituency boundaries? I think that is
> what will be required to create the pincode boundaries as well.
>
> Regards,
> Dev
>
> Regards,
> Devdatta
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Raphael Susewind
> <li...@raphael-susewind.de <mailto:li...@raphael-susewind.de>> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> following up on my earlier email, I just pushed a list of pincodes for
> all electoral booths across India to GitHub and made a pull request to
> the datameet repository:
>
> https://github.com/datameet/pincodes/pull/2
>
> Please note that this can be incomplete, and is based on a rather
> brutish, quick and dirty hack - see comments in rolls2pincode.pl

> <http://rolls2pincode.pl>. But it

> >> <mailto:iota....@gmail.com <mailto:iota....@gmail.com>>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Well, There were postal delivery zones in the past and the postal
> >> department even used to make maps of these zones. The Delhi
> postal
> >> delivery zone map
> >>
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1RcWLku0ZOWWVBHMldrZWdfZEU/view?usp=sharing>
> had
> >> boundaries for delhi. I am not sure if other cities had them
> or how
> >> long the postal department was doing this, but it certainly
> can help
> >> with the boundaries for cities.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Srinivas Kodali
> >> www.lostprogrammer.com <http://www.lostprogrammer.com>
> <http://www.lostprogrammer.com>
> >> /"Not everyone who wanders is lost, I am probably a bit"/
> >>
> >> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 9:29 PM, Arun Ganesh
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Hi Devdatta,

What is the data that you are looking for.
I had saved it.
But it is huge. About 1.55 GB consisting of about 135 shapefiles out of which 70 are raw booths.

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Adding some relevant data.

The district handbooks released by census provide pincode details for village areas. for each village / location code, they provide the relevant pincode which covers that village. I have collated that data from the handbook files and put them up here:

https://github.com/avinashcelestine/pincodes_censuscodes

Unfortunately, the district handbooks only provide such pincode data for villages, not towns or wards. And even within villages, a number of locations dont have the relevant pincode info (i think a large part of Madhya Pradesh is blank for instance). Another bunch of villages have pincodes in less than 6 digits. Despite these issues however, there are still 4.13 lakh villages out of a total of 6.4 lakh, for whom six digit pincodes are given.

the handbooks are here:

http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/DCHB.html

(For the sake of completeness, i have not removed entries for those villages for which pincodes are not given)

These will be useful for anyone looking to map census data to pincodes.

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http://postalgis.nic.in/ is having pincode boundaries now, pl check.

Also check schoolgis.nic.in interesting site.

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Shridhar,

I'll take the data at the PostalGIS with a pinch of salt. I checked the data in several locations across the country, and the values in the Pincode Boundary layer is either missing, 0, or completely wrong in most of the places I checked.

Maybe it's a Work in Progress, or this is their version of done, but I don't think anyone should depend on this data for anything.

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http://postalgis.nic.in/ is having pincode boundaries now, pl check.
Also check schoolgis.nic.in interesting site.

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Thanks Sridhar,
Very interesting data set.

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Postal Dept. with Bhuvan team has geocoded all the post office as reported here. And here is the bhuvan link showing post office search.

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Gagan

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Hi Gagan,

If you need the data from there, I've already scraped it, and shared it here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/datameet/DJb5cTLr8Sc/D8XJ60cECgAJ

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Thanks Devdatta,

If anyone needs can take from your source.

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Rahul Ranjan

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Google maps has this data. Also bhuvan has postal code boundaries but it is in png. Has anyone verified the data of google maps ? Is it accurate ?

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Just my two cents regarding data with google maps.. if they're anyways never going to share it openly (pls correct me if I'm wrong), why bother verifying it? We anyways won't be able to publish it in any of our work. Better to spend time & energy on helping improve sources that are or have a potential in future to share it as open public data. Of course, using it to triangulate with other datasets to find leads might be helpful.

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Yes, we can't use Google's data. I was wondering if the polygons made using the vornoi polygons method on the geo-referenced post offices obtained through bhuvan has been verified by someone using Google maps or any other authentic source. Also, during my research I found that only Google provided pincode boundaries. Also the polygons can be created using bhuvan's lat/lon search (In which it gives the pin code of the post office which lies withing 1 km of the lat/lon).

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To get some background on Pincode please see the hackpad

https://datameet.hackpad.com/PINCODE-Hell.-M4hPFJVV2Gm

Also Google's pincode boundaries are not official. Since the post office has never made a pincode map we don't really know where Google has gotten this data, from who, or through what method. I would say the Bhuvan maps coming directly from the post office would be a better source til the post office releases a full map.

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Dear Avinash,

I was looking at the pincodes_censuscodes.zip in the github at the location you have specified. This is helpful.

In addition to the pin codes, you have also been able to get gram panchayat names. How have you managed that? Could you please tell me.

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Hi Veena

the gram panchayat names are given in the village census district handbooks. However, they are also available at lgdirectory.gov.in >> Download Directory >> gram panchayat mapping to village

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Veena Ramanna

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Dear Raphael,

I understand that you have looked at Polling booth data. I am interested in accessing the polling booth addresses for Karnataka state. Could you please tell me if I can get that in the excel format ?

I have been able to access the polling booth names by clicking on each MLA Constituency in each district at http://ceokarnataka.kar.nic.in/FinalRoll-2017/Dist_List.aspx. However, we have to click open pdfs at each of the polling booth names to get the pin code.

Any help with this would be useful.

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Hi Veena
I may be able to help if you can clearly define the steps (not able to understand the kannada language).
As far as i can see, pincode in the pdf is 6 digit number which can be easily grepped from pdf.The question is where is the polling booth name.

Raphael Susewind

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Hi Palash,

no need to - have just pushed it all to GitHub (see separate
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@veena

I did scrape the polling booth addresses in 2014 for Bangalore. https://github.com/openbangalore/ps

For example, for Bangalore Rural

https://github.com/openbangalore/ps/blob/master/processed/Points_bangalore_rural.csv

It has the following columns

Latitude, Longitude, State, CEO_Name, DIST_NO_NAME,DEO,AC_No_NAME,ERO_Name,PS_No_Name,BLO_Name

You can reverse geocode the street address using Lat, Long

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Reminder in case anyone has inputs on this a year later - the geo-entities standard bit.

ALSO - what is the latest feedback on postal GIS? Any feedback I could pass on? In July 2016 it was still work in progress.

http://postoffice.umd.nic.in:8080/nicutility/#

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Hey Vaishnavi,

That looks interesting.

I've scraped the boundaries for the 6 cities, and put them here: https://github.com/datameet/PincodeBoundary

At first glance, there are some oddities in the data, so I'll suggest that you cross check before using them.

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Thanks Devdatta. If you could point out problematic areas, we could look at
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Hey Vaishnavi,
That looks interesting.

I've scraped the boundaries for the 6 cities, and put them here: https://github.com/datameet/PincodeBoundary

At first glance, there are some oddities in the data, so I'll suggest that you cross check before using them.

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I was just using the Bengaluru file for pincode visualization. relaised that new pincodes like 562112 is not available here.

how to add these?

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Hi Gaurav,

562112 seems to point to Harohalli which is in Ramanagara district?

There is a new pincode map here that has some 562XXX codes that cover the suburbs of Bangalore.

Hope this helps.
https://data.opencity.in/dataset/pincode-maps-of-cities/resource/pincode-map---bengaluru

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Thank You for prompt reply and new data

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Hi Sharvan

i have made this data for one of my client. that data is only for 1 state. if u need than i can make it for entire india.

if u need sample i can provide

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