Latest Shape File of Districts

[Gurpreet Singh]

Dear All

Happy Makar Sakranti. 

I have been struggling to match the names of districts in an old shapefile and the latest data of CMIE to make a table joint. As many names of districts have changed, it will be much help if anyone can share the latest district's shapefile with the latest names.

It will be much help.

Gurpreet Singh

Doctoral Student - Food and Agribusiness

Indian Institute of Management- Ahmedabad

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

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

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[guneet...@sputznik.com]

I was tracking this actively here https://github.com/guneetnarula/indian-district-boundaries till last summer, but with some help, can update to the latest. Note that these are not accurate, only meant for visualizations, and the names are according the Registrar General of India. There is a conflict between that source and the State government websites in some cases.

- Guneet

[Amit Nambiar]

Official shape files for national, state and district boundaries are available here.

https://static.fossee.in/mapathon/Mapathon2020_Data/

Amit

[Elijah Schwanitz]

These district boundaries appear slightly out-of-date. They don't reflect the 2016 boundary changes in Manipur, at least. Any idea if there's an updated version available somewhere publicly?

[Naveen Francis]

739 districts are mapped here. 

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Districts_in_India#How_to_download_data_.3F

AFIK Nagda in MP is yet to be notified. 

this has to be merged to the old district. 

[Ganesh Babu]

The OpenStreetMap version of districts in TN around Chennai is also a bit messy as compared to the one on the Government website. 


ttp://overpass-turbo.eu/s/J6N

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Thanks and regards,

Ganesh Babu R P
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[Arun Ganesh]

Fairly certain the Chennai district boundary on the TN govt website is incorrect. As per official notification, the district should be coterminus with the Greater Chennai Corporation boundary. Had done some research on this: https://github.com/justinelliotmeyers/India_Official_Boundaries_2019/issues/9#issuecomment-663592799

The boundary on OSM is also incorrect and is the old city limits prior to expansion. Let me see if i can fix them over the weekend.

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[Justin]

If anyone can find the official Chennai boundary, please let me know. I emailed at least 20 different governmental departments/ agencies. Not a single reply. I would really like to have the current/ correct boundary.

Thanks,

Justin

[Arun Ganesh]

This district map on the Chennai district website confirms the shape of the new Chenai district https://chennai.nic.in/waterbody/

Its an open question what happened to the St Thomas Mount cantonment area which is shown as a hole. 

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[Ganesh Babu]

Thanks for this information Arun. I didn't realize the Govt website had incorrect information. 

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