Re: [datameet] Pincode Boundaries of India

Dear Avinash and all, I will try to make some time this week to scrape the pincodes from electoral rolls for all polling booths in my electoral GIS shapefiles. Since pincode is in latin script, this should not be affected by the much discussed PDF scraping issues with electoral rolls. We could

Re: [datameet] Pincode Boundaries of India

perhaps one way is to avoid using postal data altogether. All header pages in electoral rolls(the first page) contain the name of the polling station related to that roll, the PS number, and importantly the pin code. A site like psleci.nic.in has geog coordinates of polling stations (though

Re: [datameet] Pincode Boundaries of India

Well, There were postal delivery zones in the past and the postal department even used to make maps of these zones. The Delhi postal delivery zone map had boundaries for delhi. I am not sure if other cities had them or