Re: [datameet] Re: MP/MLA Shapes

2014-01-21 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi, The NIC had published some maps with the newly delimitated Assebly constituencies. On a lark, I had Digitized them. I'll try and find those out. Are you looking for delhi, or other states as well? Regards, Devdatta On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 4:22:58 PM UTC+5:30, Krishna Prasanth wrote:

Re: [datameet] Re: Shape file and centroid for Indian 1991 districts

2014-01-31 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
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

Re: [datameet] Census data of bangalore - koramangala

2014-02-01 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi, If you want the data for Bangalore North, you should find it here: http://www.censusindia.gov.in/pca/SearchDetails.aspx?Id=653983 Bangalore South: http://www.censusindia.gov.in/pca/SearchDetails.aspx?Id=659100 Bangalore East: http://www.censusindia.gov.in/pca/SearchDetails.aspx?Id=659207 In

[datameet] Re: 2200+ BMTC busstop locations

2014-02-17 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Awesome! I had scrapped some data, but had left the project incomplete due to paucity of time. I'm eagerly waiting for the Routes. Regards, Devdatta On Monday, February 17, 2014 10:10:04 PM UTC+5:30, Thejesh GN wrote: I scraped BMTC site today for details. Now I have all the routes and

[datameet] Re: Help with creating a map of links

2014-03-14 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
of the process depends on the data that you have, and how much you need to massage it, to create the curved lines. Once you achieve that, then making the Map in Qgis is a very small task. Regards, Devdatta Tengshe On Friday, March 14, 2014 10:31:22 PM UTC+5:30, rajesh wrote: Hi mapping gurus, I

[datameet] Re: [odcblr} Volunteer Hangout tomorrow

2014-03-19 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi, I can volunteer only on Saturday Sunday. Is that ok? Or do you need us to be involved before the meet(on Friday) as well? Regards, Devdatta On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 11:04:31 AM UTC+5:30, Nisha wrote: Hey All, If you can volunteer at ODC please let me know. I'm setting up a hangout

Re: [datameet] Re: [odcblr} Volunteer Hangout tomorrow

2014-03-19 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
In that case, I'm in. Regards, Devdatta On Mar 19, 2014 1:55 PM, Nisha Thompson nisha.thomp...@gmail.com wrote: Hey We only need volunteers on sat and sun so that works! On Mar 19, 2014 1:48 PM, Devdatta Tengshe devda...@tengshe.in wrote: Hi, I can volunteer only on Saturday Sunday

Re: [datameet] Mapping PinCode [Help Required]

2014-03-25 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
://groups.google.com/d/msg/datameet/yrL-oaiG3Gc/dmEkueijpNYJ). Hopefully PC boundaries should be available quite soon, and with all of this you could make your visualization. Regards, Devdatta Tengshe On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Aniket Maithani maithani.ani...@gmail.com wrote: I have been

Re: [datameet] Parliamentary constituencies data on Github.

2014-03-26 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi All, I noticed a minor issue with the Extent of Lakswadeep. I have corrected it and sent a pull request. If the pull request takes time, you can also take the corrected data from: https://github.com/devdattaT/maps Regards, Devdatta Tengshe -- For more details about this list http

[datameet] Re: Daksh 2014 data available

2014-03-28 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
document which talks about all the fields in details and what each one exactly means? Regards, Devdatta Tengshe On Sunday, March 23, 2014 11:49:06 AM UTC+5:30, Kishore (Narasimhan) Mandyam wrote: You can get the Daksh data at thishttps://drive.google.com/file/d/0B58-5_WbnVn9alRGNE1hQ2J5bmc

[datameet] Re: Google Election site and PC Maps

2014-04-09 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Thej We call these types of Errors Sliver Polygonshttp://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/GISDictionary/term/sliver%20polygonin the business. They are usually a result of improper digitisation process. If you on the site you have linked, they have credited Empowering

Re: [datameet] Re: MP/MLA Shapes

2014-04-10 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Krishna, On the Fusion Tables page, I can see a 'Map of Geometry' tab. Open that tab, and then go to filedownload. Download the data as KML. I converted this KML to shapefiles using Qgis. Regards, Devdatta On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Krishna Prasanth akrishnaprasa...@gmail.com wrote:

[datameet] Security Issues with the Voter List

2014-04-10 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
registered voter of India 3. Nearly 25% of the Voter IDs assigned within only Delhi fail to conform to the government format, and fail the Luhn Checksum test used to validate them. It is likely that other states are in a similar, if not worse condition Regards, Devdatta Tengshe

Re: [datameet] Looking for KML file of India's parliamentary constituencies, need it urgently!

2014-04-27 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Ravi, A shapefile was liberated at the recent data meet. You can get it from here: https://github.com/datameet/maps/tree/master/parliamentary-constituencies Regards Devdatta On Apr 27, 2014 7:20 PM, Ravi Bajpai bajpair...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, I work for Hindustan Times here in Delhi.

Re: [datameet] Data Mining Class 12 Records: Rigged scores in Class 12 CBSE ISC Exams

2014-05-13 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Prashant, I remember your analysis and results via Quora and reddit. I look forward to more interesting analysis from you in the future. Devdatta On May 13, 2014 8:57 PM, Prashant Bhattacharji prashbha...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, My name is Prashant. Nice to come across this data group.

Re: [datameet] Re: India Parliamentary constituencies lightweight version

2014-05-14 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
HI Dilip, Thanks for making the lightweight version. I have checked it, and except for a few minor topological issues, there is only one major issue. The Constituency of Mandi in HP is being repeated multiple times. Otherwise it looks great. Regards, Devdatta Tengshe On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9

Re: [datameet] Logo Contest Voting!

2014-05-15 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
My vote for 5 On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Sreenivas KN aarei...@gmail.com wrote: irrespective of which font/ design you might choose, also focus on the logo colour. pfa a quick snapshot of the colour emotion guide. there could be more on this subject which designers could also check

[datameet] Re: Indian Elections 2014 - ECI Datasets

2014-05-17 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Pratap, thanks for sharing the script and the data. I ran it this morning, and had to update a few things to get it to run on my windows machine, but otherwise it was a breeze. There are many interesting facts in this dataset, and I hope to put out some interesting Maps and infographics based

Re: [datameet] the datameet districts shapefile with 2011 census district codes added

2014-05-21 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Avinash, Is there a list of these 640 districts along with their codes on the Census Website? While creating the data, I had not found it, and instead had to use the statewise codes that are available in the Administrative atlas. Regards, Devdatta Tengshe On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:41 AM

Re: [datameet] Is everything that is published as a news in public domain after it's publication

2014-05-29 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Dilip, I had discussed this issue with a lawyer friend, when this news had come out. As a result of this discussion, my understanding is that the facts itself are public domain. But their representation, be it in a news article, or a table published on a website/newspaper, can still be under

Re: [datameet] Scraper for reservoir data

2014-06-17 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
/Reservoir_level.htm Regards, Devdatta Tengshe On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Thejesh GN i...@thejeshgn.com wrote: For the dams in Karnataka @ https://github.com/thejeshgn/reservoir I have just started for 2011, I am scraping slowly :) but this week I should have daily data from 2010

Re: [datameet] PIN code maps

2014-06-23 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Dilip Balaji can you share the source where you got the above figures? When I Look at the Pincode data available on data.gov.in, I get barely 19,100 unique pincodes. Regards, Devdatta Tengshe On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Dilip Damle cadvis...@gmail.com wrote: Hello to all, BTW now

[datameet] Re: Reading India_pc_2014 shapefiles in R

2014-07-01 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Ashutosh, I'll suggest that you go through this pdf: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/intro-spatial-rl.pdf It extensively deals with working with Spatial Data in R. I'll also suggest that you access the files without the extension. You should use:

Re: [datameet] Updated Taluk Shapefile!!

2014-07-17 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Justin, Can you let us know what was the procedure to create this file, and this is accurate upto which date? I'm asking this shapefile has 2739 sub districts, and according to the census, there should be 5564. Regards, Devdatta Tengshe On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Justin Meyers

Re: [datameet] Updated Taluk Shapefile!!

2014-07-17 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
it to create the district shapefiles which are shared on the datameet github repos. Sometimes I feel I should get started on digitizing those pdfs. It shouldn't take more than 40 hours. Regards, Devdatta Tengshe On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Justin Meyers justinelliotmey...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [datameet] Updated Taluk Shapefile!!

2014-07-17 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
, July 17, 2014 11:17:33 PM UTC-4, Devdatta Tengshe wrote: Hi Justin, I know the euphoria that one has when one has done something new. It's one of the best things in the world. If the original source you mentioned is Bhuvan, then the files came directly from Survey of India. I have used those

Re: [datameet] Datamet PC/ District Map : Confirmation needed about various Enclaves across States of India

2014-07-20 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Dilip, Boundaries are rarely clean straight lines. The official boundaries as of today have their origins in different eras. Right from the boundaries of historic princely States, to the partition, to linguistic reorganization of states, all of them have contributed to the boundaries that you

Re: [datameet] database of chief ministers

2014-07-22 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
. Regards, Devdatta Tengshe On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Srini Vasudevan vsrinivas...@gmail.com wrote: Hello DM'ers, I was wondering if there existed a data set of all past chief ministers in India (state name, cm name, party, years in office). Thanks! Best, Srini -- Datameet

Re: [datameet] Census 2001 Tahsils Shapefile (5,461 records)

2014-08-05 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Justin, Firstly let me congratulate you on doing this. I'm sure that this must have involved a lot of sweat, blood and tears (Working with government data, usually involves the last one). This is the most up-to-date, comprehensive complete dataset for sub districts that I have seen. Could

Re: [datameet] Re: Shapefiles for complete India

2014-08-06 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Sharad, I just download the GDAM data again, to confirm what you have said. I'm going to have to disagree with you about the quality of the IND_adm3 data. Acoording to the 2001 Census, there are 5454 Sub Districts in India http://www.socialjustice.nic.in/pdf/tab11.pdf. The GDAM dataset has

Re: [datameet] Census 2001 Tahsils Shapefile (5,461 records)

2014-08-06 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
) 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 On Wednesday, August 6, 2014 12:02:57 AM UTC-4, Devdatta Tengshe wrote: Hi Justin, Firstly let me congratulate you on doing this. I'm sure

Re: [datameet] Re: Shapefiles for complete India

2014-08-06 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
In Continuation of my previous email, here is a CSV file which shows just how bad the GDAM dataset is. Regards, Devdatta On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Devdatta Tengshe devda...@tengshe.in wrote: Hi Sharad, I just download the GDAM data again, to confirm what you have said. I'm going

[datameet] Re: View of the map data for the Deccan

2014-08-12 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Arun, This is a Gorgeous Map. I specially loved the colour combination. Could you share the QGIS map (.qgs) file, so that I can create similar maps for other areas? Regards, Devdatta Tengshe On Monday, August 11, 2014 12:13:48 AM UTC+5:30, Arun Ganesh wrote: This might interest folks

Re: [datameet] Re: Delhi Locations and Questions

2014-09-08 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
to several different people living in one locality, there is a good chance that they will refer to the locality by different names. I hope that this sheds some light on the chaotic addressing in India. Regards, Devdatta Tengshe On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Justin Meyers justinelliotmey

Re: [datameet] Re: PIN Code : Village List mapping

2014-09-23 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
than one pincode. There is no 1:1 correspondence between villages and pin codes Regards, Devdatta Tengshe On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Pratap Vardhan pratap...@gmail.com wrote: Here's an assumption I have, if someone could clarify? Does every village in the country have a pincode? I

Re: [datameet] All locations in a City / Town

2014-10-03 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Here is the other file. On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Devdatta Tengshe devda...@tengshe.in wrote: I don't think that such a well organised list exists. But don't lose hope, there are ways to approximate it. 1)Firstly you can get names of wards. They tend to be the names that people often

[datameet] Re: Request for Data of Parliament constituencies of India

2014-10-09 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Suresh, It's not clear what you are looking for. The datameet github repository has the Loksabha Constituencies in shapefile format, here: https://github.com/datameet/maps/ These are polygons. Do you need just the latlongs of the centeroids? Or in some other format? Regards, Devdatta

Re: [datameet] fyi ...EC GIS maps for assembly constituencies

2014-10-15 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
request that someone please download all these files in case they are removed. I'll try to write a script over the Next week to convert this data to something that we can all use. Regards, Devdatta Tengshe On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Avinash Celestine avinash.celest...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [datameet] [GeoBLR] OpenStreetMap in Action! Nov 20, 6pm-8pm.

2014-10-29 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Sajjad, That's an interesting and impressive lineup. I hope I'm in Bangalore on that day so that I can attend. Regards, Devdatta Tengshe On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Sajjad Anwar m...@sajjad.in wrote: Hello everyone, Hope you had a safe and wonderful Diwali. I just wanted to write

Re: [datameet] Anyone having 2011 census India districts shapefile

2014-11-02 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Ramandeep, They are available here: https://github.com/datameet/maps Regards Dev On 02-Nov-2014 2:43 pm, Ramandeep Singh ramandeep...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all If anyone is having 2011 based shape files of India's districts then please share. i need it for my project. Thank you --

Re: [datameet] Shapefile for road network data of Punjab

2014-11-02 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi sukhjit, Depending on your needs, you could download them from geofabrik over here: http://download.geofabrik.de/asia/india.html They provide an easy way to download data from the osm database. Regards Dev On 02-Nov-2014 2:43 pm, sukhjit sehra sukhjitse...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all,

Re: [datameet] Is there any way to get mumbai local train timetable data in JSON format?

2014-12-30 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
, Devdatta Tengshe wrote: Hi Chintan, The Chalo Best guys had shared the data in GTFS format here: http://gtfs.chalobest.in/ Regards, Devdatta On 19-Dec-2014 6:14 pm, Chintan Shah thechin...@gmail.com wrote: I need mumbai local train data to make an android app. If there is any way to get

Re: [datameet] LS voter list in usable form

2015-03-10 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Rukmini, many people have done this on a much smaller scale. I feel that most haven't gone to a pan india level, not only because of the technological issues, but privacy issues as well. Have you seen this discussion : https://groups.google.com/d/topic/datameet/zfkFaYTh0ek/discussion

Re: [datameet] Official source for India boundaries

2015-04-25 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Arun, I think these boundries are sort of official: http://mnre.gov.in/sec/solar-assmnt.htm (Look at the GIS data layers section) According to my experience, those shapefiles are from Survey of India, so they are as official as you can get. Regards, Dev On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Arun

Re: [datameet] Re: Shapefiles for complete India

2015-04-17 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
wants CD block level boundaries, we have to look at Justin, I guess. But the GDAM boundaries are not 'wrong'. Sharad On 07-Aug-14 9:48 AM, Devdatta Tengshe wrote: In Continuation of my previous email, here is a CSV file which shows just how bad the GDAM dataset is. Regards, Devdatta

Re: [datameet] Where can I find shapefiles for official state-level india map

2015-06-09 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
. Sarath Guttikunda* *http://www.urbanemissions.info http://www.urbanemissions.info* On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:22 PM, Devdatta Tengshe devda...@tengshe.in wrote: Hi Banu, I have created a topojson object from the datameet maps repo, and used it in the JavaScript code in this repo: https

[datameet] Data Science Courses on Coursera

2015-06-17 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi All, I came to know that Coursera has a Group of courses on the topic of Data Science: https://www.coursera.org/specialization/jhudatascience/1 Even though they mention a price on the page, you can still do it for free, if you are not interested in the certificates. If someone wants to set

Re: [datameet] [Pune] Crowdsourcing: Play match-the-following and help build Pune's bus route information data!

2015-07-03 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Nikhil, I'll strongly suggest that we stay on GTFS as a standard. There are many applications to work with it, since it's an open standard. I'm in pune and i can help you with this. Regards, Dev On 04-Jul-2015 10:50 am, Nikhil VJ nikhil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Friends, Some of you whom

Re: [datameet] Where can I find shapefiles for official state-level india map

2015-06-26 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
this for excel2007, not tested. http://exceltodbf.sourceforge.net Wondering if you have any other solutions or packages to add in excel. With regards, Sarath -- *Dr. Sarath Guttikunda* *http://www.urbanemissions.info http://www.urbanemissions.info* On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:22 PM, Devdatta Tengshe

Re: [datameet] Census 2001 Tahsils Shapefile (5,461 records)

2015-08-07 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Deepak, So if I have understood you correctly, you will have to manually merge the appropriate tehsils. Here is a page which talks how you can manually merge polygons while editing them in QGIS: http://blog.thematicmapping.org/2013/06/merging-polygons-in-qgis.html Regards, Dev On Sat, Aug

Re: [datameet] Census 2001 Tahsils Shapefile (5,461 records)

2015-08-06 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
12:50:38 UTC+5:30, Devdatta Tengshe wrote: Hi Deepak, The Link in OP's Post (https://app.box.com/s/vljeiolbqhx2hwyz8qxs) Is still accessible to me. What do you see when you visit the link? Let me know if you have trouble accessing this data. I have it saved my system. Regards, Dev

Re: [datameet] about shape-file for river basin

2015-07-18 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Aditya, Getting Shapefiles for all of them will be difficult, but you should have a look at the River Basin Atlas released by India WRIS in 2012. The India-WRIS site isn't currently working, but the report is available from India Water Portal at:

Re: [datameet] India shape

2015-08-30 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Krunal, This is available in Shapefile format on our Github Repo: https://github.com/datameet/maps/ Let me know if your require any further details. Regards, Dev On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Krunal Patel krunal3...@gmail.com wrote: Dear ,All Hi, I'm working on shapefile for india

Re: [datameet] Looking for a missing link in mobile based field survey data visualization / analysis

2015-09-17 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Nikhil, I'm assuming that you are looking for a *free, hosted solution* that does the entire thing, from data collection, to aggregation to maps completely for you. I'm afraid that something like this doesn't really exist. There are several commercial solutions which will do this, but they

Re: [datameet] Census Ward Boundaries for Metro Cities

2015-12-14 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Sourabh, There seem to be some Jpeg maps at: www.censusindia.gov.in/maps/Town_maps/census_maps_index.aspx (I can't seem to open the link right now, but can browse it through Google Cache) Regards, Devdatta On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Sourabh Ghurye wrote: >

Re: [datameet] Re: Census Ward Boundaries for Metro Cities

2015-12-14 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
@Ritika: A word of caution. These are Municipal Ward Boundaries, and not Census Ward boundaries. As is being discussed on the other thread currently, The census department breaks down towns into census wards, which usually do not correspond to individual municipal wards. Regards, Devdatta On

Re: [datameet] Slum maps of cities - Digitization?

2015-12-18 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
HI Bhuvana, These maps were freshly made using Satellite data, and ground surveys. The Raw Data definitely exists in digital format, and it might be a better idea to actually ask for it via RTI or other means, rather then digitizing these low scale pdfs. Regards, Devdatta On Fri, Dec 18, 2015

Re: [datameet] Need help

2016-06-13 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Kuhu? What exactly do you wish to achieve? Maybe I could help you. In most cases, you need to have the data in a vector format (like geojson or topojson) and display that in a web map using a Js library like Leaflet or similar. Regards, Devdatta Tengshe Ph: 735-358-0782 On 13-Jun-2016 9:13

Re: [datameet] Re: Pincode Boundaries of India

2016-06-14 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Gagan, If you need the data from there, I've already scraped it, and shared it here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/datameet/DJb5cTLr8Sc/D8XJ60cECgAJ Regards, Devdatta On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Gagan Bansal wrote: > Postal Dept. with Bhuvan team has

Re: [datameet] Re: India Shape Files

2016-06-13 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi All, I had looked at this site a few months back, and tried to extract the villages, since it based on a GeoServer Backend. However, it seems like they have not properly configured the Geoserver, and it errors out when you try to pull in Vector data from it. Based on what I've heard about

Re: [datameet] Getting started with maps

2016-06-20 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Manas & Kavita, Mapping is a wide field, and there are many things, and many different ways of achieving what you want to. At it's essence, You would collect or create data, and then using a GIS software, you would make a Map. The map could be a fixed map, of a particular area, which would be

Re: [datameet] Public consultation on Government Open Data Use License - India

2016-06-27 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
IMNAL, but Overall this license looks quite ok, except for 6.c & 6.e Does anyone have any idea why they have kept these two things out of OpenData? As long as you don't use them to claim that these organizations endorse you, I would wants that people should be able to use them to depict the

[datameet] Re: GISGraphy CSV File for India

2016-02-23 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Shoumya, Have you tried contacting them directly? http://download.gisgraphy.com/ has the following notice: Due to people that have abused / hacked the service, only PBF are > available. CSV files are curently unavailable. Please send a mail to > davidmasc...@gisgraphy.com if you really

[datameet] Post Office Locations

2016-03-14 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi all, I saw that Bhuvan has a portal for Post offices, and I decided to poke around a bit, and I found that the data could be Scraped. I have scrapped the data from this portal for all the pincodes, which in turn are available on the data.gov.in website. While this data does not cover the

Re: [datameet] Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) shape file

2016-04-22 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
find an India level map which has boundaries for > Municiapal Corporations and Municipal Councils, we can derive MMRDA from > that. But, I have not been able to find such a map. > > Kabir > > On Friday, 22 April 2016 14:17:58 UTC+5:30, Devdatta Tengshe wrote: >> &g

Re: [datameet] Re: Newbie here- Need help with shape file of constituencies of India.

2016-05-18 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
That's the correct location. This file has the ACs for all the states, combined together. Regards, Devdatta On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Manas Sharma wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you! But I couldnt find this repo on the git. Isnt it the one > located here? >

Re: [datameet] Help with schools location data extracting

2016-05-22 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Nihkil, There is a standard ArcGIS rest endpoint which is the backend for this here: http://rsgis.nic.in/ArcGIS/rest/services/?f=json. What data do you want to extract? Regards, Devdatta On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Venkata Pingali wrote: > I looked at this site some

Re: [datameet] Re: Plotting Real Time Data Fields !!

2016-05-24 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Sarath, This is a perfect job for a script to run periodically, and scrap the data. I don' think that there are any ready-made solutions you could use, but if you need some help on this, do let me know. Regards, Devdatta On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Sarath Guttikunda

Re: [datameet] Newbie here- Need help with shape file of constituencies of India.

2016-05-18 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Manas, You need a GIS software to create maps from shapefiles. I'll suggest QGIS, which is an opensource, free and a feature rich software. You can download it from http://qgis.org Once you add the shapefile to QGIS, you can render it however you like. See this doc for more details:

Re: [datameet] Re: What do you people think about the new proposed Bill about Maps and Geospatial data

2016-05-05 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
@Johnson The boundry issue is just the 6th point. As a GIS practitioner, I'm more concerned with the earlier 5 points, which prevent me from storing, analysing and disseminating any kind of GIS Data, and its outputs. Regards, Devdatta On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 11:25 AM, Johnson Chetty

Re: [datameet] What do you people think about the new proposed Bill about Maps and Geospatial data

2016-05-05 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi all, I have serious reservations about this draft, and we must definitely respond to it. Firstly, this proposed bill is just too vast in its scope. It wants to regulate not only the capture and collection of raw data, but the Dissemination and distribution of any kind of value added

Re: [datameet] Re: What do you people think about the new proposed Bill about Maps and Geospatial data

2016-05-05 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
@Srinivas: This bill isn't applicable to Government organizations. It will be a strange thing though. It will be legal for ISRO/Bhuvan to offer this data for download, but not legal for you and me to collect it without a permit. I actually understand their intent behind this bill. They want to

Re: [datameet] [Draft for Consultation]: National Geo-spatial Policy, 2016.

2016-05-10 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Nisha is completely correct. This policy is for the DST, and ISRO in particular. It talks about how government agencies to create spatial data, and share it with the public in an easy to consume manner. This Policy infact dilutes some of the restrictions which were present in 'The Remote Sensing

[datameet] Municipal Spatial Data

2016-08-12 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi All, I've created a repository on Github for all Municipal Spatial Data that I've converted/Scraped over the years. You can access it at: https://github.com/datameet/Municipal_Spatial_Data I'll add some more cities over the weekend (Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore), but if you have any Municipal

Re: [datameet] Municipal Spatial Data

2016-08-12 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
There are a few repositories on the city on the web, but the quality is a > bit of an issue. > > Thanks, > Srinivasan > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Devdatta Tengshe <devda...@tengshe.in> > wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I've created a repository on Github for

Re: [datameet] Point locations of Bangalore

2016-08-10 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Suvajit, This looks amazing. What is the source of this data? Do you have this data for other cities in India? Regards, Devdatta On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 2:57 PM Suvajit Sengupta wrote: > Hi, > Attaching a CSV file of 1500+ localities of Bangalore with lat/lon.

Re: [datameet] India Village Shapefile Data

2016-07-07 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hey Justin, Please post them. Lot of people are asking for them. Regards, Devdatta Tengshe Ph: 735-358-0782 On 08-Jul-2016 7:21 am, "Justin Meyers" <justinelliotmey...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can I post shapefile data for India Villages? > > -- > Datameet is a community

Re: [datameet] India Village Shapefile Data

2016-07-08 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
H8-0GRY >> >> SR >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *Sutirtha Roy | Economist, O/o CEA | Ministry of Finance* >> *011-23095176 (O) **9810645843 (M) * >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 7:37 AM, Justin Meyers <justinell...@gmail.com> &g

Re: [datameet] Re: World shape file

2016-06-29 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Shijith, Thanks for sharing the Repo. The data looks quite good; only people should be aware that there are a few gaps between the boundary, and surrounding areas. It's not really a problem unless you zoom in too much, and no one should use NaturalEarth data for such kinds of use cases anyway.

Re: [datameet] Re: [BLR] Workshop on basics of satellite imagery processing. June 24th, 4pm

2016-06-29 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hey Sajjad, Nice write up! This is definitely a wonderful introduction to using Satellite Imagery. Regards, Devdatta On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Sajjad Anwar wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Sorry I forgot. Here's the outline and links to everything we covered > at the

Re: [datameet] Re: GIS Ward Maps for Hyderabad, Kolkata and Ahmedabad

2017-02-07 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Deepti, could you clarify what types of Wards these files contain? Are they the Census Enumeration wards? or the Municipal wards? Regards, Devdatta On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 12:07 AM, Deepti Raj wrote: > Hi priyanshi, > Please find attached ward map for Delhi (272

Re: [datameet] Old Survey of India maps of Bangalore from 1960s or 1970s

2017-02-04 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
I don't have the survey of India Maps, but some years ago, I had got this map from the British Library: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/maps/asia/4951981u2u1961.html and then used it to create this kind of Map: https://gisdev.in/OldMaps/Blr/ Regards, Devdatta On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at

Re: [datameet] Mumbai Ward Maps.

2017-01-28 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
https://github.com/datameet/Municipal_Spatial_Data/tree/master/Mumbai You can get it from the Datameet Repo Regards, Devdatta On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Manas Sharma wrote: > Is there any place I can get latest ward maps of Mumbai? > > Thanks! > > -- >

Re: [datameet] GIS Shapefiles/AutoCAD files of Gwalior City, Madhya Pradesh

2017-01-17 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Is there a Physical /Soft copy Map of these boundries? Maybe you could Digitize it Regards, Devdatta On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 8:12 PM, anshuman singh wrote: > Hi, > > I am an Urban Planning Graduate and in an urgent requirement of GIS based > Shapefiles/AutoCAD data of

Re: [datameet] Digitising Ward Maps of Bhubaneswar, Odisha. [Work in Progress] Information about Bhubaneswar

2016-08-23 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
apa...@gmail.com> wrote: > How did you scrape off the data? > > On Tuesday, 23 August 2016 14:42:03 UTC+5:30, Devdatta Tengshe wrote: >> >> Hi Pratyush, >> >> After you shared the link on the Slack channel, I scraped some of the >> data, directly from the ArcGIS b

Re: [datameet] Digitising Ward Maps of Bhubaneswar, Odisha. [Work in Progress] Information about Bhubaneswar

2016-08-23 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Pratyush, After you shared the link on the Slack channel, I scraped some of the data, directly from the ArcGIS backend. I've shared it at the following location: https://github.com/datameet/Municipal_Spatial_Data/tree/master/Bhubaneswar Having the original data, as compared to digitized data

Re: [datameet] Census 2011 Data

2016-08-23 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Someone had collated & shared this data as a Strata .dta file a couple of years ago. That dropbox link is dead right now, but I could probably share it with whoever needs it. I can't share the link with the General Public, since it's a Large File, and it will easily eat through my Dropbox

Re: [datameet] INDIA GHSL data!!!

2016-10-28 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
This I believe is the recently released Global Human Settlement Layer. You can read more about it here: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-technical-research-reports/global-human-settlement-layer-optical-high-resolution-imagery-concept-and-first-results And Download it

Re: [datameet] Need help regarding Data visualisation project on Indian Railways

2016-10-17 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Have you looked at this: https://github.com/datameet/railways This isn't real time information, but has all the locations, as well as the schedules. Regards, Devdatta On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Udayan Vidyanta wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Udayan and I am an

Re: [datameet] Need help regarding pincode boundaries in India

2016-10-19 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
of data vendors who are just trying to sell snake oil to unsuspecting organizations. I'll request you to go through the hack pad as well as all the treads on this topic, where we have discussed these issues ad nauseam Regards, Devdatta Tengshe On 19-Oct-2016 9:01 pm, "RC" <ravicho...@gma

Re: [datameet] GoI foss - OpenForge

2016-12-13 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
; Thejesh GN *⏚* ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ > http://thejeshgn.com > GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 > > On 14 December 2016 at 11:52, Devdatta Tengshe <devda...@tengshe.in> > wrote: > >> It looks like a rebranding of https://www.tuleap.org/ >> >> They have mentioned this

Re: [datameet] GoI foss - OpenForge

2016-12-13 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
It looks like a rebranding of https://www.tuleap.org/ They have mentioned this in the credits, but I could not find the code of this instance, which they need to do to meet the GPL v2 requirements of tuleap. Regards, Devdatta On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Sajjad Anwar wrote:

Re: [datameet] Looking for maharashtra village shapefile data

2016-12-06 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
are going to have a Meetup on this Saturday on this very topic, and you are welcome to attend. Regards, Devdatta Tengshe On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 11:51 AM, ketki barot <ketkiba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am ketki phd research scholar, i am looking for mahrashtra village > s

Re: [datameet] Looking for app for geocoding bus stops

2016-12-05 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
you can look at Locus map https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=menion.android.locus I use it often for collecting gps locations along with other details. Regards, Devdatta Tengshe Ph: 735-358-0782 On 05-Dec-2016 8:10 pm, "Yash Ganthe" <yas...@gmail.com> wrote: >

Re: [datameet] GIS analysis

2017-03-23 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Having some experience with Urban Hydrology, (as well as having worked on BISON for BWWSB) here is what I can tell you. 1) For most purposes, running a Simple trace on the Sewage Network by itself is usually more than enough. In most cases, the STP has more capacity than the capacity of the

[datameet] Re: Old maps of India

2017-03-18 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
On Saturday, March 18, 2017 at 7:38:17 PM UTC+5:30, Manas Sharma wrote: > > Assembly Constituency boundaries have undergone a lot of changes after > delimitation. Is there any place I can get older (pre-delimitation) > shapefiles of India (specifically U.P.) with the assembly consti. >

Re: [datameet] Kerala (Sub) District Shapefiles

2017-03-07 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi praveen, Have you looked at: https://github.com/datameet/indian_village_boundaries/tree/master/kl ? Regards, Devdatta On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Praveen J wrote: > > Dear Experts, > > This topic must have been discussed many times - but the >

Re: [datameet] Kerala (Sub) District Shapefiles

2017-03-07 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
That data has these Sub Districts: ​ Regards, Devdatta On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Devdatta Tengshe <devda...@tengshe.in> wrote: > Hi praveen, > > Have you looked at: https://github.com/datameet/indian_village_ > boundaries/tree/master/kl ? > > Regards, > Devda

Re: [datameet] Pincode Boundaries of India

2017-03-08 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hey Vaishnavi, That looks interesting. I've scraped the boundaries for the 6 cities, and put them here: https://github.com/datameet/PincodeBoundary At first glance, there are some oddities in the data, so I'll suggest that you cross check before using them. Regards, Devdatta On Wed, Mar 8,

Re: [datameet] Mumbai ward shapefiles

2017-06-19 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Have a look at: https://github.com/datameet/Municipal_Spatial_Data/tree/master/Mumbai Regards, Devdatta On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 3:50 PM, sandeep mahato wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone share with me any link > to obtain Mumbai ward-wise shapefile. > > Thanks > Sandeep > > --

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