Hello, I am presenting a website which is defunct for a while, which is on transparency of the dam water-level.
http://damalert.kerala.gov.in/main/index.php The same may be extended to whole of india, the code fully on open source developed by NIC for KSITM Regards Sabarish.K On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Nisha Thompson <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > At the Meetup on Tuesday we discussed the following: > > *Data.Gov.In* > > The team at NIC's Data.gov.in has been putting up a few datasets. Now > they have around 20. > > There are a lot of community functions on the site. As a data-centric > community we really should be finding ways to give feedback and demand > datasets. I would like share the following google doc with the list of data > sets we have been requesting. I will be officially requesting the > government related ones on the request data forum. > > We also have priority data we would like Pincodes being the biggest demand > and shapefiles being the next more asked for dataset. So please vote for > those sets here: > > Also would anyone be interested in participating in some of their forums. > Specifically one about requesting data and discussing formats, > standardization, and data quality. > > *India Water Portal Data Project* > I presented the work I'm doing at India Water Portal > > The India Water Portal Data Project is looking at water data in India in a > systematic way the hopes to see what data is out there, who collects it, > what are the gaps, and how you can use data to build quality and > sustainable water projects and tell a more realistic story about the state > of water in India. > > So we are looking at data from government, NGOs, and academics have to try > to get an idea of how to answer two big questions. > > How much water do we have? > How much water do we need? > > *How much do we have?* > India's water cycle is constricted to surface water which depends heavily > on the three months of monsoon rains, and groundwater. > > So data around rain, reservoir levels, surface water, and groundwater > levels are essential to understand the supply we are working with. This > data is scattered, collected by many different agencies, and also is of > questionable quality. > > *How much do we need?* > Demand for water is harder to understand. Metering of water use is not > widely used and not required by law. Real numbers of actual use are not > available but can be deduced from other proxy factors like energy use (for > pumps) and what kind of crops are grown. > > The discussion then moved to the urban story of water. How you can check > for leaks and get demand information from apt administrators and houses > that use tankers. > > One of the projects discussed was forming a home weather station network. > India Water Portal is in the process of getting a weather station to live > stream data in Bangalore. Several people also want to make cheaper versions > of a weather station for homes that will also collect data. This network > could be a source of data that is more granular and there for more useful > for projects like rainwater harvesting. > > If you are interested in working on the Weather network in Bangalore > please let me know. I can connect you to Pavan and Sam Rajkumar. > > Nisha > > > > > -- > Nisha Thompson > Mobile: 962-061-2245 > > > -- > 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, send email to > [email protected]. > > > -- 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, send email to [email protected].
