update to pincodes data

[Avinash Celestine]

Hi

Came across this site a week or so ago : http://pmjdy.gov.in/g-i-s.aspx.

This site, which is part of the PMJDY (jan dhan yojana), has geolocations for post offices among others. There are 1.42 lakh post office locations given in this map. I have tried to match these locations to actual pincodes from the list of post offices given in data.gov.in. 

I managed to match about 1.35 lakh. About 7k-8k are unmatched.

So we have 1.35 lakh post office locations with associated geocodes and pincodes. Another 7k-8k can be done with a little effort. still working on it.

The data is here : https://github.com/avinashcelestine/Pincodes-data

regards

Avinash

[Indranil Gayen]

Hi Avinash,

Great work. I was trying the same thing but with the help of Google's Geo-coding API. 

But I am just wondering how do you get data from http://pmjdy.gov.in/g-i-s.aspx in csv format?

[Avinash Celestine]

Hi Indranil,

you cant get it readymade in csv format unfortunately.

when you select a state, you have to inspect the data thats loaded into your browser (using something like Chrome dev tools). 

for this particular page, the data is loaded in json format. Just save it offline in a file. from there you essentially write a script to convert that to csv or use an online tool like this : http://konklone.io/json

regards

Avinash

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[Indranil Gayen]

Wow that's a great job. I was trying out Google's API. I'll match the same with your result and report the similarity.

Thanking you
Indranil Gayen

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