Hi Justin I was just browsing through the datameet archives for Block level shapefiles Bihar. Unfortunately, your post seems to be have been deleted or the link broken!
Can you please share the link for the same, if available with you. Thanks in advance! :-) On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 09:51:27 UTC+5:30, Justin Meyers wrote: > > Devdatta, > This is raw data that I converted from kml to shp. So it took me about 30 > minutes to make sure the attributes came through properly. Cannot say my > source until I download the rest of the content from the site, before they > take it down. It seems like they put data on the internet, then try to > take it down (or hide it...). Not really sure why? I posted the Orissa > sample for you some time ago, but you never responded? I found official > data for Orissa as well, so converting the census pdfs to gis is a big > waste of time (took me a few days...). > > As per the quality of this dataset, it is the best I have seen on a > national level. But if you look state by state, or really want quality > data, then this isn't what you want. I would call this dataset a rough > start. > > I posted a update about Bihar ( > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/datameet/QuP4Tt4n0_g) and that > data is amazing, this data doesn't hold a candle to it. Too bad the > government doesn't want help from the experts ;) > > Cheers, > Justin > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- 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/d/optout.
