Hi, carrying forward what has been said earlier, Once you have the shapefile for latest districts (This is easier said than done though), you should use the Administrative atlas available here: http://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/maps/maps2011.html
It has the districts for each census year from the 19th century onwards. Regards, Devdatta On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Si <slibe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey, > > In case you dont manage to get the shapefile, you could: > > 1) Getting a shapefile for a more recent year (2001/2011). This would be > easier to get. > 2) Get a list of the all the districts which have been added between > 1991-2001/2011 (try Census website) and merge the new districts into their > parent ones. The only problem will be with districts which were formed out > of multiple districts. In that case, you may want to do some more digging > using google maps to find which areas came from which parent districts and > use the 'snap' tool in qgis to make your own tentative boundary. > > Hope this helps > > > > On Monday, January 27, 2014 5:50:58 PM UTC+5:30, Guilhem Cassan wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> I am looking for a shapefile and GPS coordinates of centroids of India's >> 1991 districts. >> Would you know by any chance where this could be obtained ? >> >> Many thanks for your help, >> >> Guilhem >> > -- > For more details about this list > http://datameet.org/discussions/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
