MOU with Ministry of Rural Development ?

[Devdatta Tengshe]

Hi All,

I see that the Ministry of Rural Development is going to release some data on 22nd Feb, and is also going to sign some MOU with datameet:

https://gavs.webex.com/gavs/j.php?RGID=r1b499f15a791c966b6debf693bbe01a8

What kind of data can we expect? Can someone share what the MOU is going to be about ?

Regards,

Devdatta Tengshe

[Thejesh GN]

I was going to write a longer blog post this week, Dev :)

The short answer is:

DataMeet is one of the parties signing MoU as a community partner.

DataMeet's role will be to suggest changes to datasets if required, help the open data community use data, and create how-tos. Take the feedback to send it to them with our suggestions.

We are going to sign a non-commercial MOU with them. I will share the copy once I have the final version and the blog post that I am thinking about.

The initial dataset would include.
- Data for 10 lakh habitations
- 25+ lakh km rural roads
- 50,000+ km of PMGSY-III proposals

Data will be released under Government's Open Data License.

We are yet to get the complete picture of all the datasets and details of it. But that's the work we will do as part of this community engagement. Feb 22 is just the day to kick start it.

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[Devdatta Tengshe]

Hi Thej!

This is quite exciting!

I'm glad to see Government Organisation see the value in working with groups like us!

Also, Yey for an permissive license like the 'Open Data License', which allows all kinds of usage including commercial use. (There have been far too many govt departments which disallow commercial usage)

Regards,

Devdatta

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[Vaishnavi Jayakumar (Inclusive India)]

Terrific news!

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[Justin]

Anyone have the link update? Would love to share. Thanks @dev and @thej !!!

[Devdatta Tengshe]

It's available here:

https://geosadak-pmgsy.nic.in/opendata

I haven't personally played around with it yet.

Regards,
Devdatta Tengshe

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[Thejesh GN]

Link for the shapefiles (GODL)

https://geosadak-pmgsy.nic.in/OpenData

Description : https://youtu.be/3tI7XIZzhSM?t=9314

Thej

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[Justin]

downloading and compiling now: https://github.com/justinelliotmeyers/India_Official_Data_2022

[Naveen Francis]

Thanks Harsh, Thej and Arun. 

Awesome !!!

[Thejesh GN]

@Arun Ganesh  @Devdatta Tengshe @Naveen Francis  and @Justin Meyers 

Can we add this data to the main maps repo at ->   https://github.com/datameet/pmgsy-geosadak

At some point we can have a mini site with all the attributes and layer descriptions similar to the maps project that we have. http://projects.datameet.org/maps/

Thej

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[Nikhil VJ]

Hi, 

I've imported the data to a PostGreSQL DB on my webserver which is hosted on SSDNodes - I think it'll be useful to have it in that form to be able to do more with it. 

I've shared the import script and steps in this repo if anyone wants to load it into their own DB:

https://github.com/answerquest/import_geosadak

Some data inconsistencies found:

States having BLOCK_ID values in boundaries shapefile which does not have matching Master data entry:
TamilNadu - 3
JammuAndKashmir - 3
These blocks do have road data etc but no entry in master data excel: 8108, 8105, 8106, 8063, 8034, 8041

States having BLOCK_ID=0 in their block boundary shapefile:
Punjab - 1
WestBengal - 3

I've imported these boundaries with randomly assigned block ids. We'll need to match them to actual block id.

 

Limited offer: If someone wants to query my DB then pls contact me on nikhil.js (at) gmail.com for credentials (limited capacity and bandwidth, note).

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[Harsh Nisar]

We need to put up a FAQ document on the portal similar to what we did when we released the PMGSY-III facilities: http://omms.nic.in/Home/PMGSYRuralDataset/

I am currently collating the common questions here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EbzAfG_NGmolsuqMZgF0-y3tVuPZf9BAvepRZvU97bI/edit?usp=sharing

Please add them as comments on the document, and if relevant, we'll try to answer them. Eventually, will put the document on the official website for larger consumption.