I tried doing the same - converting the PDF files into Svgs/ Jpegs and then attempting to use georeferencing via QGIS. The outcome was unsatisfactory - partially it was my inexperienced hand at work, and partially because it is just too tedious. I had to georeference by allocating lat-long information (for district HQ) from wikipedia. It didn't pan out well at all.
I also got in touch with NIC which runs the GISServer but they categorically asked me to get in touch with Survey of India, who have a clear policy drafted on maps, but not mapfiles. My attempts to contact Survey of India haven't borne fruit as yet. Would love to get some help from this community. Many thanks. On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Karthik Shashidhar < [email protected]> wrote: > Reviving this thread. > > So the maps themselves are available at > http://gisserver1.nic.in/ecimaps > > More specifically the Karnataka Assembly constituency map (pertinent given > the upcoming elections) is available at: > http://gisserver1.nic.in/ecimaps/ECIPDF/State_ac_map/KARNATAKA.pdf > > I think this is a vectorized PDF, so should be able to be converted to > shape files. > > And I assume there is enough expertise on this list to do this conversion. > Can someone do the necessary conversions and post the data? > > Thanks > Karthik > > > On Wednesday, 28 November 2012 12:19:56 UTC+5:30, megha wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> Can anyone here point me to recent enough shape files for MP/MLA >> constituencies? >> >> Thanks, >> Megha >> > -- > 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 and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Best Regards, Srinivasan V. Ramani , Senior Assistant Editor, Economic and Political Weekly , New Delhi: 110 067 09650855669 -- 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 and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
