PIN Code : Village List mapping

[Raman Arora]

Hi All, 

I was working on a project and came across a hurdle where for any particular district I needed a PIN Code to census village mapping. Does such a set of data exist maybe on data.gov.in ?

Thanks, 

Raman

[Pratap Vardhan]

Raman,

Here http://data.gov.in/catalog/all-india-pincode-directory#web_catalog_tabs_block_10 you would find about 1.5 lakh pincodes listed in a csv file in the following structure.

officename pincode, officeType, Deliverystatus, divisionname, regionname, circlename, Taluk, Districtname, statename

Thanks,

Pratap

[Raman Arora]

Still does not contain the village names. 

Or can I assume that all villages within a taluk have the same PIN Code and use the census to map the villages to the taluk and eventually the PIN Code?

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[Nisha Thompson]

ALso we are doing a project on pincode data.  

SEe here for more sources

https://datameet.hackpad.com/PINCODE-Hell.-M4hPFJVV2Gm

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[Nisha Thompson]

Raman,

I don't think you can. It would be a big guess

NIsha

[Pratap Vardhan]

Here's an assumption I have, if someone could clarify?

Does every village in the country have a pincode? I think, may be not, pincode is given only if postal office exist at that place? (I guess)

So, villages with no postal office in thier village have a postal code of nearest postal office which could be in another village? (possible)

If someone familiar with above cases, it would be easy (if not, doable) to geotag village's picodes autmatically.

Thanks,

Pratap

On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 2:31:17 PM UTC+5:30, Raman Arora wrote:

[Devdatta Tengshe]

Does every village in the country have a pincode?

I believe you mean to ask whether each village has  an unique pincode.

The answer is No. Each village does not have a unique pincode. A group of villages may together have one pin code, or in the case of large villages, a villages may have more than one pincode.

There is no 1:1 correspondence between villages and pin codes

Regards,
Devdatta Tengshe

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[Dilip Damle]

HI, 

According to some study that I have done this is the general rule. 

The post offices are organised as below in a hierarchical way 

HEAD OFFICE  Has a unique code

SUB OFFICE Has a unique code

BRANCH OFFICE - Does not have a Unique Inherits the Pincode of its sub office.

There are two more types of offices GPO which is a head office named separately

Experimental post offices below Branch offices which may be temporary or later promoted as branch office.

The location of these post offices does not have anything to do with other administrative divisions though it may match to some extent.

The hierarchy also may cross boundaries depending on other factors.

 

On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 2:31:17 PM UTC+5:30, Raman Arora wrote:

[Sajjad Anwar]

Came across this article about how a startup created an addressing
scheme for slums in Brazil -
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-mailman-mapping-brazils-largest-favela-by-hand
and built a mail delivery service around it.

Just for the record - I don't agree to the fact that they have their
data and processes closed and also that they refused to share it with
Google. But something to think about.

Cheers,
Sajjad.

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[Gautam John]

Just read this:
http://qz.com/280494/this-startup-has-a-simple-code-to-solve-indias-complex-address-problem/