Indian city boundaries

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Ravi Chopra

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Oct 3, 2022, 8:18:27 AM10/3/22
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Hello All, I am looking for boundaries of Indian cities. Any help will be appreciated.

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Ravi

Kaushal Gadariya

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Oct 3, 2022, 8:56:09 AM10/3/22
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Hello ravi,
You can download it from the Survey of India website.

Abhishek

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Oct 6, 2022, 1:26:25 AM10/6/22
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Hi Ravi,

Ward boundaries for many cities are available here: https://dataspace.mobi/dataset?q=ward

Thank you
- Abhishek Upperwal

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Devdatta Tengshe

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Oct 6, 2022, 2:36:39 AM10/6/22
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Wow! Thanks for the great source.

There is a lot of interesting data here. Some of them have a CC0 license, and others don't have a license mentioned.


Since this site is by the Govt of India, I am assuming that this would be under the Govt Open data license, but unfortunately, there is no way to check, since the link to the license page (https://licenses.dataspace.mobi/) is dead.

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Devdatta


Abhishek

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Oct 7, 2022, 3:08:15 AM10/7/22
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Hi Devdatta,

The platform is still work in progress. It was an initiative under the smart cities fellowship programme led by me and two others. It is currently backed by the National Institute of Urban Affairs. We are pitching it to be a one stop shop for all urban datasets at NIUA. As NIUA has a huge corpus of datasets (geospatial and others), we will be opening up more of these datasets in the coming days. 

Reason for using CC0 1.0 in some of the datasets:
Although all the datasets on the platform belong to one or the other urban local bodies, the source for some of these datasets might not be a government body. So the rule we have been following for attaching a license is that all datasets procured from any govt body is licensed under Govt Open Data License, datasets aggregated from open sources are given the same license thats available at the source (mostly CC0 1.0) and non-govt. sources without any license are left as "License not specified".

It's not a funded project (yet) and is built on an open source stack so some links are broken. We were initially planning to create an open licensing platform where cities can drag and drop pre-built clauses to create custom data sharing licenses according to their needs. Most cities are not comfortable releasing the data under the open data license and hence we see poor quality datasets on most govt platforms. The license.dataspace.mobi was supposed to redirect to that platform but it was never built.

Not a legal expert so any feedback on licensing or the overall platform is more than welcome. 

Thank you
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Kaushal Gadariya

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Oct 17, 2022, 8:33:30 AM10/17/22
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you can download it from the survey of India website open maps

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Devdatta Tengshe

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Oct 18, 2022, 12:55:19 AM10/18/22
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Kaushal,

Can you please link to the exact dataset, or the data?

Just saying 'Download it from Survey of India websites' is quite unhelpful.


Regards,
Devdatta


gauravm...@gmail.com

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Oct 18, 2022, 1:21:48 AM10/18/22
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sreeram kandimalla

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Oct 23, 2022, 3:24:45 PM10/23/22
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SOI Open Series Maps doesn't have Indian City Boundaries.. 


In the URL above the map shown on the left is derived from the SOI Open Series Map sheets, you can zoom in and check.



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