[datameet] Survey of India v/s GMaps

2014-12-16 Thread Thejesh GN
saga continues, this one is the latest by SoI on Facebook[1], I have archived[2], concerns to domain .com and .cn. I couldn find the same on notices section of SoI[3] Reproducing the post: [QUOTE] Survey of India, Office of the Surveyor General of India, December 12 at 8:34pm · It is observed

Re: [datameet] Survey of India v/s GMaps

2014-12-16 Thread Shree D N
Is this official page of SOI? Saw some photos from Tokyo etc posted by the page... On 16 December 2014 at 14:58, Thejesh GN i...@thejeshgn.com wrote: saga continues, this one is the latest by SoI on Facebook[1], I have archived[2], concerns to domain .com and .cn. I couldn find the same on

Re: [datameet] Survey of India v/s GMaps

2014-12-16 Thread Thejesh GN
On 16 December 2014 at 15:04, Shree D N wrote: Is this official page of SOI? Saw some photos from Tokyo etc posted by the page... Its not a confirmed page. So I am not 100% sure. That said NDTV has reported on this

Re: [datameet] Re: India 2001 census data village-wise

2014-12-16 Thread Anand Chitipothu
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Rick Morgan rick.morg...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Are you still looking for this data? With a rather complex Python code I scraped http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/ Village_Directory/View_data/Village_Profile.aspx

Re: [datameet] Re: India 2001 census data village-wise

2014-12-16 Thread Rick Morgan
Yeah. I found that late last night I am not sure what projection it is on, as the borders are shifted from my known-good district map. I am going to play with this a bit more. He mentioned that he got it from the DevInfo program. When you export the *.kmz and overlay it in google earth, the

Re: [datameet] Re: India 2001 census data village-wise

2014-12-16 Thread Rick Morgan
There are over +400,000 records, so the upload will take a very long time and will require more RAM than I can currently spare. (I have a rather extensive Bayesian measurement model running right now that take priority). Do you know Python? I could give you my scrapping code. On Tuesday,

[datameet] Re: India 2001 census data village-wise

2014-12-16 Thread Rick Morgan
Here. Is the code. If you want the *.html and JSON data you can scrape it with this. That said, I will work on converting it all to *.csv as soon as my R console is free. I hope this helps. Cheers. On Saturday, March 1, 2014 12:23:17 AM UTC-5, Fenella C wrote: Hello everyone, I am

Re: [datameet] Re: India 2001 census data village-wise

2014-12-16 Thread Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]
No problem at all. There is no hurry on this whatsoever. I should mention that I already have purchased CDs for 2001 data for several states where I do my research. Sharad On 17-Dec-14 9:18 AM, Rick Morgan wrote: Here. Is the code. If you want the *.html and JSON data you can scrape it