NEW DISTRICTS OF INDIA SHAPEFILE

[akula.g...@gmail.com]

Hi all,

I have updated  INDIAN-DISTRICTS shapefile with all new districts even including newly formed Andhra Pradesh districts counting  a total of 755 districts.

https://github.com/datta07/INDIAN-SHAPEFILES/blob/master/INDIA/INDIA_DISTRICTS.geojson

Regards,

Akula Guru Datta

akuladatta.github.io

[Dammalapati Sai Krishna]

Hello Guru Datta, Thank you very much for this effort!

Would you be able to share the source of this data? That would help us in using this data with proper quotes.

Also, as per the Local Government Directory there are 756 districts. Just want to bring it to your notice if you haven't come across this yet.

Thanks again!

Sai Krishna

[Akula Guru Datta]

Hi Sai Krishna,

I made this myself by gathering various resources.

Thanks for your info on new district Tamulpur was missing. I will add it soon.

Regards,

Akula Guru Datta

akuladatta.github.io

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[Deepak Sharda]

Great Work  Dutta. You have always helping with your hard work on this platform. Is there a place where we can get updated villages shape files as well. 

I tried merging updated village data from multiple sources. Not sure how accurate it is. Sharing sith you if you could help improving it on open platform.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1R6XOwqKKQFgOkTEzIP14u36kaWdxCifs?usp=sharing

[Gurpreet Singh]

Hi Akula

Thanks for sharing the file. I am unable to upload it on Q-GIS. Can you please help me on this. 

Or if you have shape file of the districts, you might like to share.

Gurpreet Singh

PhD - Food and Agribusiness (IIM-Ahmedabad)

M.A. Rural Development, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

B.Sc. Agriculture, G.B.P.U.A.&T., Pantnagar

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[Nikhil VJ]

Hi Gurpreet,

Just checked; the INDIA_DISTRICTS.geojson file is loading on QGIS fine at my end. It's big, though.

The data is already split up by states in the same github repo - you can go into the states folder:

https://github.com/datta07/INDIAN-SHAPEFILES/tree/master/STATES

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[devang majithiya]

Dear sir

I am trying to develop regional transportation network for particular region,  where to get base shapefile from Google map ( road network) and how I can show specific route. Also if anyone know about networking, route Assignments in TRANSCAD , please let me know his contact details.

Devang P Majithiya 

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[Akshit Shah]

Hi  Akula Guru Datta,

I cross checked the district file with the latest LGD district list and found there are 3 new districts formed recently which are missing from the file. Can you please add them. The District are namely 

1. Tamulpur, Assam

2. Pakyong, Sikkim

3. Soreng, Sikkim 

you can find the jurisdiction in the government order for these respective districts uploaded on the LGD website. Attaching the same here for ease of reference.

Warm Regards,

                                                                        

Akshit Shah

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[VAIBHAV PURI]

Hi

I am facing a similar issue as Gurpreet. I tried adding a new vector layer under protocol, type: GeoJSON and source as permalink but received the following error: 

Invalid Data Source: https://github.com/datta07/INDIAN-SHAPEFILES/blob/31af6045eb62fcf082b59b54da3e7c05b121b121/INDIA/INDIA_DISTRICTS.geojson is not a valid or recognized data source.

How to resolve this? or something wrong being done at my end to fetch the district file?

Regards,

Vaibhav

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[Nikhil VJ]

Hi Vaibhav,

So the link you shared is for humans to load a page in the browser, that hosts the file from where they can click download to download the actual file.

To get a direct download link that your software can use, right-click the download button and copy that link.

You can also just download the full file to your system and then make your software read that, to make things simpler.

Do navigate your way around the github repo to the latest version of the file, lest you keep using an older commit after the file has been updated. (see the link - if you see weird chars inside, then you're on a specific commit that may or may not be the latest version)

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[VAIBHAV PURI]

Thanks Nikhil and Akula

I tried the non-human method and it worked. But the file here https://github.com/datta07/INDIAN-SHAPEFILES/blob/master/STATES/TRIPURA/TRIPURA_DISTRICTS.geojson seems to have some issues. If you can check and confirm. The sub-district level data got ingested, but this district level data shows error. 

Regards,

Vaibhav

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[sreeram kandimalla]

Hey Deepak,

I am very much interested in this project. 

I haven't looked into your data yet. 

But, In general I am looking for an approach where the sources for all the geometries are noted and so are the corrections made.. So that everything is reproducible starting from the sources. 

This along with the LGD data archived daily at https://ramseraph.github.io/opendata/lgd/ will be helpful in creating a map of India as of a given date. 

Thanks,

Sreeram k

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[Anurag Swarnkar]

Hi Akula,

Thank you very much for sharing this data. 
I am trying to find the shapefile for the Delhi Road map. I have gone through the various sources available such as geo fabric, OSM, etc., but I believe these data's attributes are unreliable. I am searching the road map shapefile with IRC classification. Please let me know if you may know of any suitable source. I am thanking you in anticipation. 

Regards 

Anurag Swarnkar

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[Deepak Sharda]

Thanks for connecting. I spoke with Justin and he has been mapping Indian villages with data available on LGD. Please check his GitHub profile you can help him over there. I already shared all the updated data I have with me

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[sreeram kandimalla]

Been seeing his tweets.. I hope an Indian place name correction database comes out as a by product of this. 

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[VAIBHAV PURI]

Hi Akula

I went through the district level data and found one missing district in the North Eastern state of Nagaland. As highlighted in the screenshot from NITI Aayog Dashboard on SDG, this district of Noklak has been created from the adjacent district of Tuensang. 

If you can check and update the same on github.

Regards,

Vaibhav

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[Akula Guru Datta]

Hi  Vaibhav,

I updated this Indian districts file 13 days back. Download the new one, it has that district.

Regards,

Akula Guru Datta

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Thank you!!!

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[Rahul Dhiman]

Hello Akula. First of all thankyou for taking time to create this shape file and making our lives easier. Please can anybody tell me how to download the data, as when I am clicking download. It is just opening a long list of lat and longs of feature polygon. How I can download the shape file?

Regards,

Rahul 

[Devdatta Tengshe]

Rahul,

This data is in GeoJSON format, and not shapefile.

Once you download the data in GeoJSON format, you can then convert it to a Shapefile using a GIS tool like QGIS, or one of many online convertors.

Regards,

Devdatta

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[Nikhil VJ]

Hi Rahul,

Once you see the:

It is just opening a long list of lat and longs of feature polygon

.. press Ctrl+S on your keyboard.

Save it to your computer. ensure that the file has extension as ".geojson".

That is the shapefile. There's various formats - this one is .geojson. Devdatta mentioned another format which would be the .shp etc. All are equally usable, all depends on your next step.

Open QGIS or ArcGIS and drag-drop this in, you'll see it on map.

Or, go on https://geojson.io and drag-drop it there, you'll see it on map.

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[uday...@gmail.com]

Hello all,

QGIS throws error when i tried to open these files. Even geojson.io is throwing up an error  - "Invalid JSON file: SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 8 column 1 of the JSON data". I am new to GIS and intersted to learn. Kindly look into this, as you have time. Any help is highly appreciated.

Uday.

[Nikhil VJ]

Hi Uday,

I just reproduced the steps and successfully loaded it to QGIS. no error in the file.

Please go through all the explanations given in the thread. They've been VERY basic.

If you're still not able to do it correctly, then you need to give some exact details so that someone can help you. Like : 

- what is size of saved file - if it's not around 39mb (some computers calculate bytes differently (1024 vs 1000) so bit difference may be there but explainable) - then you don't have the actual data file and you've saved something else and are on wrong track 

- what is extension of saved file - if it's not .geojson then you're on wrong track.

- open the file in a text editor like VSCode and share the content up till : " line 8 column 1" where you're getting the error. And if it's not looking like: 

{"type":"FeatureCollection", "features": [
{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[71.2702884145729,23 ....

... then you're on wrong track.

Sometimes it's just a messed-up download due to network issues and simply repeating the download again solves it.

Do try looking up online for what the .geojson format looks like, compare etc to catch out any obvious mistakes.

If you're convinced that you're following everything properly and still getting it wrong, then make a screen recording, upload to youtube and share the link so you can show exact process and get feedback.

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[Uday Bhaskar Reddy]

Hello Nikil,

I am very sorry for the delay in replying to your email. Appreciate and thank you for finding the time to test the working of the file. I will follow your instructions and try it again.

Regards,

Uday.

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[Curran Kelleher]

I've simplified the geometries to a smaller file (from 30MB to less than 1MB) using MapShaper and made them available here: https://gist.github.com/curran/49fa25fc44c84fcbebb51e60946145a4

Regards,

Curran