Open Data Portal for smart cities

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srinivas kodali

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May 13, 2019, 8:08:56 AM5/13/19
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The ministry of urban development has started an open data portal for smartcities part of their new National urban innovation stack. They also want to rank cities based on the data and there is paper on their strategy for cities using data. 

Smart cities open data portal


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Srinivas Kodali

Arun Ganesh

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May 13, 2019, 8:58:13 AM5/13/19
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This /looks/ really neat. Was going through some of the datasets and most seem to have city ward or zone level granularity.

This will make the datameet municipal shapefiles much more relevant to use with all this data https://github.com/datameet/Municipal_Spatial_Data . Theres still over 70 cities for which ward shapes are not known, wish they would release that on the smartcities platform as well.

Srinivas Karuturi

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May 13, 2019, 9:40:21 AM5/13/19
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The open data portal looks neat and the datasets are valuable.
The one challenge I see with the datasets is the lack of metadata and a standard glossary for the data to be used effectively.

In addition the Data Maturity Assessment Framework is weak as majority of the assessment is based on binary responses of a Yes/No

Not sure if the Maturity assessment framework is  open to feedback.. Can someone point me in the direction of who can we reach out to for fixing the Maturity assessment framework.

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Srinivas

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On May 13, 2019, 4:58 PM +0400, Arun Ganesh <arung...@gmail.com>, wrote:
This /looks/ really neat. Was going through some of the datasets and most seem to have city ward or zone level granularity.

This will make the datameet municipal shapefiles much more relevant to use with all this data https://github.com/datameet/Municipal_Spatial_Data . Theres still over 70 cities for which ward shapes are not known, wish they would release that on the smartcities platform as well.

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Karthik Shashidhar

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May 14, 2019, 1:00:52 AM5/14/19
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Speaking of data.gov.in, any idea of the rationale behind asking you for the "purpose" of getting the data before downloading it? Doesn't it make the data less open if you need to go through a statement-of-purpose loop? 


srinivas kodali

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May 21, 2019, 10:59:10 AM5/21/19
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The ministry is open to re-publish any data through their urban data exchange, but can't publish them as official data through the smartcities portal. They are open to collaborating with organizations and communities. But formal letters need to be sent. 

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Srinivas Kodali


On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 6:28 PM Arun Ganesh <arung...@gmail.com> wrote:
This /looks/ really neat. Was going through some of the datasets and most seem to have city ward or zone level granularity.

This will make the datameet municipal shapefiles much more relevant to use with all this data https://github.com/datameet/Municipal_Spatial_Data . Theres still over 70 cities for which ward shapes are not known, wish they would release that on the smartcities platform as well.

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Rama Krishna Reddy Kummitha

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May 21, 2019, 12:02:41 PM5/21/19
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Hi,

This is a very good initiative. I do research on smart cities. I have so far published a number of research articles as given below. In case, if you guys are interested to use the data and write together, I am available. I am not sure whether this email is relevant to this group. But hopefully Nisha is not going to flag me as I am referring to the data :) 


 


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Rama 

 




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srinivas kodali

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Jul 2, 2019, 12:36:27 PM7/2/19
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If people can share important datasets which can be shared with the ministry of urban affairs, will write a formal letter and attach the links of datasets to be published on their urban data exchange. This will ideally be a start and we can become a partner within their exchange and send newer datasets later too.

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Srinivas Kodali

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