Shapefiles for "complete" India

[Karthik Shashidhar]

All the shapefiles for India that I have downloaded do not show PoK and Aksai Chin as part of India. Does anyone here have access to shapefiles that include these territories? Basically looking to publish (online) some maps, so want to make sure that it's accurate. 

(I looked through the group archives, and all sources mentioned there do not show these regions as part of India)

Thanks

Karthik

[S Anand]

We've got SVG files at http://gramener.com/indiamap/ -- at a State and District level. PoK is labelled separately, and Aksai Chin is included as part of Leh. These are consistent with the 2011 census maps. Does that help?

Regards,

Anand

[sandeep]

Dear Karthik,

Did you get shapefiles asked? Need them too. Would be grateful if you can share.

Regards,
Sandeep

[Arun Ganesh]

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Karthik Shashidhar <karthik.s...@gmail.com> wrote:

All the shapefiles for India that I have downloaded do not show PoK and Aksai Chin as part of India. Does anyone here have access to shapefiles that include these territories? Basically looking to publish (online) some maps, so want to make sure that it's accurate. 

(I looked through the group archives, and all sources mentioned there do not show these regions as part of India)

You can try the shapefiles from http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/

It includes the shapes for the disputed regions which you can join with the Indian territory.

Thanks

Karthik

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[Arun Ganesh]

This would be a better option. Its based on the official census2001 district shapefiles:

http://geocommons.com/overlays/226411

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[Karthik Shashidhar]

Thanks for this Arun.

This is a district-wise map. Is there an intuitive way to convert this into a state-wise map, given that the name of the state has also been included here? 

[Arun Ganesh]

I got some errors while processing the census data. I have made a combined shapefile with the natural earth data.

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[Pavan Srinath]

I came across a new source for administrative areas shapefiles is this: http://gadm.org/ 

For India, there are good quality shapefiles available at the country, state, district and taluk levels.

It shouldn't be too hard to recreate the complete J&K shapefile from those given here. 

Cheers,

Pavan

[Arun Ganesh]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Pavan Srinath <pavan....@gmail.com> wrote:

I came across a new source for administrative areas shapefiles is this: http://gadm.org/ 

For India, there are good quality shapefiles available at the country, state, district and taluk levels.

It shouldn't be too hard to recreate the complete J&K shapefile from those given here. 

Its possible to create the pok side because azad kashmir and northern areas are administrative divisions in pakistan, but there is no shapes to create the chinese occupied side of j&k. 

Cheers,

Pavan

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Arun Ganesh <arung...@gmail.com> wrote:

I got some errors while processing the census data. I have made a combined shapefile with the natural earth data.

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Karthik Shashidhar <karthik.s...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for this Arun.

This is a district-wise map. Is there an intuitive way to convert this into a state-wise map, given that the name of the state has also been included here? 

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Arun Ganesh <arung...@gmail.com> wrote:

This would be a better option. Its based on the official census2001 district shapefiles:

http://geocommons.com/overlays/226411

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Arun Ganesh <arung...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Karthik Shashidhar <karthik.s...@gmail.com> wrote:

All the shapefiles for India that I have downloaded do not show PoK and Aksai Chin as part of India. Does anyone here have access to shapefiles that include these territories? Basically looking to publish (online) some maps, so want to make sure that it's accurate. 

(I looked through the group archives, and all sources mentioned there do not show these regions as part of India)

You can try the shapefiles from http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/

It includes the shapes for the disputed regions which you can join with the Indian territory.

Thanks

Karthik

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[Avinash Celestine]

Hi

the shapefiles from gadm.org seem to be based on census 2001, since
they contain (on cursory examination) to have details for around 593
districts. There are around 640 districts as of census 2011.

Here's an alternative source which has district maps for census 2011,
but it's SVG format rather than shapefiles.

hope this helps

rgds

Avinash

[Avinash Celestine]

oops forgot the link. sorry

http://www.s-anand.net/blog/india-district-map/

rgds

Avinash

[sandeep]

Those of us who have been constrained from publishing map-charts due to non-availability of official India shapefiles, (including Aksai chin and POK), the wait is finally over. You could download these from Maptell site- India shapefiles . 

[Sabarish, KSITM]

For the Road Maps of Kerala- Not the shape files

http://www.keralapwd.gov.in/intranet/getPage.php?page=RoadMap&pageId=292

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[Dilip Damle]

Hello,

This is an old post.
However this is the appropriate place to add an additional source.

I had downloaded the set from Grid Geneva many years ago.
The original complete source was named as GNV197 which is 24 MB
Titled as "HUMAN POPULATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARIES DATABASE FOR ASIA"
I am attaching the South Central Asia E00 file.

That set contains The disputed areas under the country name IN1 and IN2

This dataset can not be easily found at present on the GRID Geneva site http://www.grid.unep.ch/index.php?lang=en in the same name.
may be it is still there somewhere with some other name.

For copyright check the metadata file which is here

http://geonetwork.grid.unep.ch/geonetwork/srv/en/iso19139.xml?id=835

rgds
Dilip Damle

[Sharad Lele]

Dear Dilip and others:

I have been following this thread with interest, but to be honest am a bit lost now. Can someone post a summary of which maps mentioned so far have what features (which coverage, pertaining to which year, what attributes (such as census codes), etc.)? Would be most helpful.

Sharad

[Thejesh GN]

Actually its not a bad idea to list it on the wiki. Let me know i will create an account.

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[Dilip Damle]

Sharad, 

I am working on some things will revert in about a week or may be more.

Thejesh,

Go ahead, 

Actually there was one more source a Low Resolution (vertices) District map by VDS technologies. 
I have it as Polylines in Autocad. I seem to have lost the original file. 
If anyone has then please share it. (it does not seem to be on their site now)

[D Thakker]

thanks Dilip for your hardwork.

I have been on a lookout for all taluka / tehsil shape file, so how do I be in a loop as I am very keen to see the repository mail / list.

[Dilip Damle]

Mr Thakkar, 

Please also look at another post (more than one) on this group  about Taluk Shapefiles by Justin Meyers

So far as I know GADM is the source that has Taluk files.
I am not sure about its completeness and accuracy as on today

http://www.gadm.org/

[Sharad Lele]

I have downloaded and checked the GADM boundaries (my version is 2011). The taluka boundary layer probably holds good today, becuase few talukas get split. Districts get split regularly (every so many years) so the district boundary layer in this GADM set is quite of date (may apply to 2001 or so). The spatial registration (positional accuracy is ~1km, and the spatial detail is of course not as good as the boundaries given in a Survey of India 50k topo, but then that is an unfair standard, so by a more generalized standard, the quality is okay.

Sharad

[Devdatta Tengshe]

Hi Sharad,

I just download the GDAM data again, to confirm what you have said.

I'm going to have to disagree with you about the quality of the IND_adm3 data.


Acoording to the 2001 Census, there are 5454 Sub Districts in India. The GDAM dataset has just 2299 features.

So clearly these taluk features do not correspond to the 2001 Census. I cross checked for some areas I have ground knowledge of, and I can say that this dataset is not from any specific era. Some tehsils in the file were created post 2001, while others created in the 90's were not present.

In my opinion the GDAM data is pretty much unusable.


Regards,
Devdatta

[Devdatta Tengshe]

In Continuation of my previous email, here is a CSV file which shows just how bad the GDAM dataset is.

Regards,

Devdatta

[Avinash Celestine]

apologies for seeing this thread slightly late

a slightly better source for 2001 data is the shapefiles within the dev info INdia software. I have attached the shapefile i put together from that of individual states and regions. It has about 5468 attributes

http://devinfo.info/devinfoindia/

essentially you download the 'desktop setup' and install. the shapefiles (different one for each district if i remember) get installed to a directory. you can put together the all india file from there.

Avinash

["Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]"]

I think I have the explanation for why I am seeing a good match and you are not:

The problem lies in defining what is the 'sub-district' unit (in IND_adm3). Administratively speaking, it is tehsil, below which lies CD block. Unfortunately, census gives information by CD block. So there are more 'sub-district' units in Census than tehsils in the country. GDAM seems to have followed the tehsil concept.

To check: Karnataka is one state in which tehsil and CD block are one and the same. That is why the sub-district layer IND_adm3 matches perfectly for Karnataka, but not for other states. There might be some other states where this holds good, I don't know.

Anyway, so if one really wants CD block level boundaries, we have to look at Justin, I guess.

But the GDAM boundaries are not 'wrong'.

Sharad

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[Sharad Lele]

If I am right, then Justin may want to rename his layer as CDBlocks_2001...

Sharad

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[Eric Dodge]

This is very interesting Sharad.

I've been looking for maps of what I've been calling administrative blocks, that is, the units overseen by block development officers. MGNREGA data is aggregated at this level and I've been hoping to use the data to do some mapping exercises.

The census sub-districts are called differently across states (tahsil, taluk, mandal, etc). You can see the list here:

http://censusindia.gov.in/Tables_Published/Admin_Units/Admin_links/subdistrict_nomeclature.html

I know that in all the states where census sub-districts are called taluk, mandal, or CD block (with the exception of TN), the census sub-district is identical to the administrative block. 

I've already completed a mapping exercise for Bihar using the census sub-district map and the data matched up pretty well. If the IND_adm3 data is indeed the administrative blocks then I could do a similar exercise with Madhya Pradesh. I'll take a look to see if the data lines up correctly.

Has anybody dug into this issue any deeper? I've heard that tehsil comes from the revenue side whereas taluk, mandal, etc comes from the administrative side but that doesn't explain why the census uses different sub-district units across states.

Best,

Eric

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Dear Eric:

Here is my understanding:

1. The census does not create any category, be it tehsil, block or mandal. These are statutory or administrative categories created under various state laws and programmes at various points in time. Note that "Block" is same as "Community Development Block or CD Block". Taluk and tehsil are synymous, and come from the revenue side. Block comes from the rural development department. Mandal comes from panchayati raj (decentralised governance).

2. Note also that different states have different decisions about how blocks are demarcated. At one end, Karnataka says CD blocks are same as tehsils/taluks. Some states have 1-2 blocks per tehsil. Some states found tehsils too big and have lots of blocks per tehsil. But as far as I know, blocks are strict subsets, and don't straddle tehsil boundaries.

3. Census only has to decide at what level to provide data to the user for a given state. E.g. ,in a district census handbook, whether to have chapters organized by tehsil or by block. So the table you refer to only tells us what choices they made in different states. It does not mean (e.g.,) that there are no tehsils in Jharkhand. Just that Census did not use that level. But yes, since Census says that MP data are reported at Tahsil level, I would think that the GADM boundaries for MP will match the tehsil boundaries and hence the census data. But the GADAM data may be outdated: tehsils have also sometimes been added (districts being split is more common).

Hope this helps.
Sharad

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["Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]"]

On 07-Aug-14 8:18 PM, Justin Meyers wrote:
> As per our conversation yesterday, could you upload your data? You
> keep criticizing everyone else's data, but you don't share your own!??
> Help me help you :)
Dear Justin:

I think you are going too far and too fast. A more moderate tone would
be appreciated.

1. I never criticized anyone: in fact, i said GDAM was ok, and you were
the one who used fairly strong words against it.
2. I have only clarified out that your layer reflects CD block
boundaries while GDAM reflects tehsil boundaries. Both may be 'ok' in
what they represent.
3. The only reason I have not shared any data of mine is simply because
I have only two datasets: the GDAM one (which is both already available
and being criticised by some ;-)) and a dataset of admin boundaries
(district and tehsil) for Karnataka state alone which we paid for and
got digitized from District Census Handbooks of 1991. When I check GDAM
or your layer versus this layer, I see no major differences. So then
what is the point in uploading that data?

Sharad

[Dilip Damle]

Hello all,

Nice enlightening discussion with a little sparks,

A small thumbnail photo of the member may help reduce sparks because then you create an image of that person in your mind based on the photo. BTW my photo here is about 40 years outdated now I look more ferocious :)

Any way to add to the confusion there is also the Division
So it seems to be 

Country > State > Division > District > Tehsil / Taluk > Some Kind of  Block > Village

Let us first get this ans confirm  if each is subset of the other or there are overlaps and if there is any other item missing in between then let us proceed      

On Thursday, August 7, 2014 10:32:08 PM UTC+5:30, Justin Meyers wrote:

Sharad,

Sorry about my tone; I get excited/ pushy when it comes to geospatial data.  In my experience, you have to ask, ask again, and keep asking (like I did with you until you finally responded).  I guess I should only ask once, and if you don't respond, then you never will...

In my honest opinion, GADM is junk.  If you want me to explain the top ten reasons why, I can.  

As per you sharing your data; if you can share it, it would be great.  Digitized one off data is unique, and could be better than what is on this forum.  If you or your company paid for the data, and cannot share, it makes sense.  I figure since you are here, looking for free data (or whatever), asking questions about it, and have data, why not share what you have.

Just my 2 cents.  Sorry for coming off as a jerk. I apologize.

Justin

[Sharad Lele]

Dilip, only one kind of 'block', which is CD block (but often just referred to as 'block').

But to complicate life :-) there can be several other admin & governance levels in between. For instance, in Karnataka, 10-20 villages are grouped into a 'hobli' by the revenue department. (below taluka level). Similarly, several villages (usually less than those in a hobli) are grouped together into a Gram Panchayat. In Maharashtra, gram panchayat and revenue village are I think identical. (Just to remind ourselves: when we say 'village', we mean revenue village--which is what census uses. Not gram panchayat, nor hamlet of any kind).

Sharad

[Dilip Damle]

Sharad, 

yes Panchayat is a collection of Villages. 

That sent me to search for data / list of panchayats. 
There are many website for Local Governance most of them do not function properly. 

however one of them lgdirectoty.gov.in seems to work and there is s downloadable data out there.

well till one goes an hits is head on the captcha thing. 

I tried several browsers but the captcha image is broken.

If anyone can try and find a workaround it will be good.
In the meantime I am trying to send them an email

[Dilip Damle]

Hi all, 

A lot of discussion has happened after this, especially regarding various internal administrative boundary sources.
This post is just about outer boundary including disputed areas  and Natural Earth Dataset. 

I have merged the Disputed Areas and created a modified dataset.
The changes have been done in the India Boundary as well as neighboring countries.

The original data is in Public domain and I have not used any other data nor changed any vertices.
Hence this set is also in Public domain. 

Scale 1: 10m 
More details in Readme file inside

Natural earth also has Admin1 (State) Boundaries,
I will do the Telangana split and add that data set later


On Saturday, April 14, 2012 10:31:18 AM UTC+5:30, Arun Ganesh wrote:

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Karthik Shashidhar <karthik.s...@gmail.com> wrote:

All the shapefiles for India that I have downloaded do not show PoK and Aksai Chin as part of India. Does anyone here have access to shapefiles that include these territories? Basically looking to publish (online) some maps, so want to make sure that it's accurate. 

(I looked through the group archives, and all sources mentioned there do not show these regions as part of India)

You can try the shapefiles from http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/

It includes the shapes for the disputed regions which you can join with the Indian territory.

Thanks

Karthik

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[Arun Ganesh]

Those interested in mapping the different types of boundaries can maybe help review how good these tagging guidelines on openstreetmap are:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India:Boundaries

This will really help if an and when such data starts being imported into the project.

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[Dilip Damle]

Hi

Just came across this link that seems to have a village shapfile of India somewhere 

http://revolutionarygis.wordpress.com/2014/06/19/india-village-shapefile/

["Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]"]

Very excited about this! But the file is not actually downloadable, it
seems. One has to write to fidel castro... has anyone gotten a reply?

Sharad

[Nisha Thompson]

I have sent Fidel a mail.  I have a feeling that he is pro open data.

nisha

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Hi,
I felt that the name was a kind of a pseudonym.
Let us see if he responds.

On Monday, August 11, 2014 6:05:28 PM UTC+5:30, Nisha Thompson wrote:

I have sent Fidel a mail.  I have a feeling that he is pro open data.

nisha

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Very excited about this! But the file is not actually downloadable, it seems. One has to write to fidel castro... has anyone gotten a reply?

Sharad

On 10-Aug-14 1:31 PM, Dilip Damle wrote:

Hi

Just came across this link that seems to have a village shapfile of India somewhere

http://revolutionarygis.wordpress.com/2014/06/19/india-village-shapefile/

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[Dilip Damle]

Hi,

This is just to add one more source for the Complete Boundary including Disputed areas and the whole world,

ESRI ADMIN 2012 now includes the disputed areas inlcuding Aksai Chi and Azad Kashmir and Northern areas  separately rather than being shown as part of the Other countries

it is available here http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=d86e32ea12a64727b9e94d6f820123a2

[Khaliq Parkar]

Hi Eric,

I am working in Bihar within Madhubani district.
Could you link me to the block level shapefiles? Do you know anyone who has worked at village\panchayat level divisions?

Thanks!
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[Sharad Lele]

Khaliq,

I guess after Justin's recent email, he should be in the best position to give you the block boundary shapefiles for Bihar.

Sharad

[Khaliq Parkar]

Thanks!

Got some from Eric which should suffice, but I hope the 2011 data comes through.

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On Wednesday, 4 January 2012 09:52:57 UTC+5:30, Karthik Shashidhar wrote:
> All the shapefiles for India that I have downloaded do not show PoK and Aksai Chin as part of India. Does anyone here have access to shapefiles that include these territories? Basically looking to publish (online) some maps, so want to make sure that it's accurate. 
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> (I looked through the group archives, and all sources mentioned there do not show these regions as part of India)
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> Thanks
> Karthik

go to this link it has complete india
http://mnre.gov.in/sec/solar-assmnt.htm

[D Thakker]

Eric, in my research / experience i have found that Sub-district, Mandal, Taluka, Tehsil means same and are division of District when it comes to Census.
But for Revenue dept boundaries are drawn and managed by district administrative bodies who report to state administration only.

So for census - District and Sub-district are well defined boundaries, and I understand from 2011 Census India has bought a started numbering system which should make future data reconciliation easier

But for land revenue depaetment - it really depends on the local administrative reach and function, and is managed and controlled by state admin bodies.

For eg. Surat has some discrepancy when it comes to Revenue and Census boundaries. This was something I came across and even local admin bodies in Surat were not aware

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[Shashank]

Bumping this up, because I don't think this issue has been resolved yet. I now have 4 different versions of Indian administrative boundaries, and my current nightmare is getting protected area boundaries to line up with them accurately.

What's the best open version of Indian administrative boundaries, down to the Tehsil/Block level, and is there a place from where it is easily available?

(I'm not even going to ask for village-level data, because among other things, what we're doing now is digitising revenue village maps because the MRD itself doesn't have digitised village level data...yet.)

["Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]"]

Dear Shashank:

I think the bottom line of the thread below was the the IND_adm3 layer is a reasonably good layer for tehsil boundaries.

Regarding digitizing village boundaries: seems like we are all condemned to reinvent the wheel because GoI/Planning Commission/ISRO are not willing to share what they have already done (and in many cases 10 times over).

For which state are you trying to create a village boundary layer?

Sharad

[Dipal Thakker]

Shashank, Shashank, and DM comrades

Great if someone can point me to the most complete / recent version of IND_adm3 data. I am working on a census tool and I have done some work for few states, but stuck without detailed boundary data-sets.

I visited BISAG, a nodal agency in Gujarat which I am told has the most detailed GIS data sets for Gujarat and most parts of India, but was booted out on my request to access, lease, license, or rent data set.. its such a shame that on one hand PM/govt is talking about open data and on other there is a thick bureaucratic red tape.

Cheers

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[Ma-roof M]

"I have data, hence I am".

Entities like BISAG, I guess, believe in that. Very difficult to get data out of them. They have also, in an earlier occasion, grapevine says, gone ahead and thwarted attempts by others at creating some data.

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["Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]"]

Dear Dipal:

http://biogeo.ucdavis.edu/data/gadm2/shp/IND_adm.zip

This is the link for GADM boundaries for india.

Sharad

[Nagarajan M]

@Diapl @Ma-roof    Fully agree. Even i tried the same.

Now looking at creating a GIS based application with whatever open data and shapefiles available for rural development.

With Best Regards,

Nagarajan M,  IAS
District Development Officer

District Panchayat,Sabarkantha

Himatnagar - 383 001

Gujarat
M : 08000 42 8000

["Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]"]

Dear Nagarajan:

Since you are part of the Gujarat Government, surely you have access to village boundary layers from BISAG or some other source? These layers have been created so many times by different govt projects.

Sharad

[Devdatta Tengshe]

Looks like I missed the activity on this post.

The best source for this dataset is the data collected and released by Justin Mayers in August Last year: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/datameet/GJKMXXSB-Ns/fS7HM_xzM3EJ

@Nisha, Should I write a summary post on this as you had suggested?

Regards,

Dev

[Dipal Thakker]

@Nagarajan - it will be grate if you can share more about your application, and keen to collaborate too.

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[Dipal Thakker]

@Dev - thanks for the link. Will look at the data now. Also anything which can allow people to collaborate more will be very helpful.. so pls feel free to share, suggest, advice.

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[Nagarajan M]

@dipal thanks for the reply. Sending you an email off the list.

With warm regards,

Nagarajan. M, IAS
District Development Officer
Sabarkantha - Himatnagar
Cell: 09978406246

[Dipal Thakker]

@Pradeep thanks for flagging

@All - Just bought to my attention that my msg from Thursday last week which was intended for the group was only sent to one member.

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@Mahroof - thats very true. But the sad part is that BISAG has formal / informal tie-ups with commercial entities (so I have heard)

@Sharad - many thanks, will have a look at the information right away. Will this match to Census 2011 data?

@Pradeep - many thanks for your offer to help with RTI - ideally i need data for India (which I am sure most of us here are after). But for starters, I am focusing on western region so data for Guj, Raj, Mah, and MP will be great.

All - just a thought – It will be great if DM members could collaborate to build an open source data platform, as I am sure there is a lot of data around.

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Which Brings me to my last point..  I am currently trying to build a retail analytics platform and as part of my exercise I am also building a census infographic tool for which I need two key components..
- primary census data which can be extrapolated (thisI have and is now available for free) and
- relevant and relateable boundary / admin line data (not available).

I have done some very basic work using census raw data layered on OSM using leaflet and driven by PHP / Posgresql

Keen to talk with like minded people here.. so please feel free to reach out.

KR,
Dipal

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On 19 April 2015 at 09:12, Pradeep Bhatt <bhatt....@gmail.com> wrote:

Just noticed that you had sent this mail to me and not to the group. You might want to send it to the group.

Regards,

Pradeep

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Dipal Thakker <dipal....@gmail.com> wrote:

@Mahroof - thats very true. But the sad part is that BISAG has formal / informal tie-ups with commercial entities (so I have heard)

@Sharad - many thanks, will have a look at the information right away. Will this match to Census 2011 data?

@Pradeep - many thanks for your offer to help with RTI - ideally i need data for India (which I am sure most of us here are after). But for starters, I am focusing on western region so data for Guj, Raj, Mah, and MP will be great.

All - just a thought – It will be great if DM members could collaborate to build an open source data platform, as I am sure there is a lot of data around.

KR,
Dipal

| Dipal Thakker

On 14 April 2015 at 12:00, Pradeep Bhatt <bhatt....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Dipal,

I can use RTI to get data from BISAG. 

Can you let me know you need data exactly for which region?

Regards,

Pradeep

[Devdatta Tengshe]

Hi Dipal,

Let us take a step back and define the problem statement. 

What level of data are you looking for? What is the level of granuality that you need to get working? Do you want to go to just the district level or do you need to go even lower to Village and C.E.B. level?

There is GIS data available at the Village and C.E.B. level, but that is only accessible to the officials working within the ORGI. This data is partly available to the general public in distribution formats like PDF and Images. (see the attached Image)

This data could be extracted from these PDF etc, but that would require quite some effort, and if someone is really interested, and is willing to spend time or money, it is doable.

Maybe we could have a discussion off the discussion list, and try to get at exactly what you need.

Regards,

Devdatta Tengshe

[Dipal Thakker]

Hello Group, Was very keen to continue this discussion.

To continue from my last point (in my last msg), the key reason I am seeking base-map / boundary data is that I would like to build an infographic portal for census and other primary data sets. I gave a shot but did not reach too far.. and keen to collaborate with like minded ppl to take my project further.

Best,

Dipal

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[Nisha Thompson]

@Dev

Please please please write a blogpost. I'm having a hard time following myself! It would be a really valuable resource.  We can also make teh wiki a bit more robust..

http://datameet.org/wiki/indiangeospatialdata

Nisha

[Dipal Thakker]

thanks Neha, and Dev - any input on the wiki page will be appreciated.

Group,
As I had mentioned in my last email / post.. I am trying to build and is currently in alpha stage and is hosted on www.remaze.in - happy to share more information if you send me an email.
I tried working on the platform but without relevant base maps its getting tricky to execute.

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[Indranil Gayen]

Hi Everyone,

Really great stuff here. Thanks for hard-work and all resources. I am currently working on few test projects [self initiated] on Geo-Visualization [Myself work in Reserve bank of India, DSIM (Statistics Dept)].

I'm using https://github.com/datameet/maps/tree/master/Districts [2011 census]. Thanks a lot again for such a effort. 

Regarding PIN database I was currently searching for PIN to Geo -Location [either a point corresponding to post officer corresponding to the PIN or a region covered by the PIN] mapping. 

I have some resources but all of these are incomplete. So I was trying out Google Map's Geo coding. 

kindly let me know if anyone are having that information already. 

[Sourav Sarkar]

Thank you very much for uploading this! Really helpful. However, while using this shapefile of 2001 subdistricts with the shapefiles of Assembly Constituencies from datameet, I notice that the two maps does not overlap exactly. I do not have sufficient GIS knowledge to risk correct them. It seems that one of the shapefiles is slightly shifted.

On Thursday, August 7, 2014 at 6:51:22 AM UTC-4, Avinash Celestine wrote:

apologies for seeing this thread slightly late

a slightly better source for 2001 data is the shapefiles within the dev info INdia software. I have attached the shapefile i put together from that of individual states and regions. It has about 5468 attributes

http://devinfo.info/devinfoindia/

essentially you download the 'desktop setup' and install. the shapefiles (different one for each district if i remember) get installed to a directory. you can put together the all india file from there.

Avinash

Thejesh,