Dear Sagar, The EC's inaction and other details have been logged in another thread in this egroup titled, "MP/MLA shapes". There were some suggestions on alternatives, but those couldnt' be worked upon. Please have a look at that thread.
Best, Srinivasan On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Sagar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Srini, > > I dont know if this has been looked into, but the Election Commission used > to host constituency shapefiles on their website a while back (2008/09 is > what I remember) - maybe we can approach them? I do know of this private > initiative: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sandip/data.html, but as the > maintainer himself says, it needs some updating post the 2009 delimitation > exercise > > Sagar > > > On Thursday, 16 May 2013 12:40:09 UTC+5:30, Srini wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> You can find this scraper tool that I wrote useful for getting >> constituency wise data for the state. It also hosts the data that you need >> in csv. You can modify the data in the csv file to get your format. >> >> https://scraperwiki.com/**scrapers/election_commission_** >> india_results_meghalaya_asse_**1/<https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/election_commission_india_results_meghalaya_asse_1/> >> >> Alternatively, if you want to scrape the data in the "state wise" format >> that you mention, you can modify the scrapers that I had written for other >> northeastern states earlier - look into my scraperwiki profile - for >> Karnataka and obtain the same. >> >> https://scraperwiki.com/**profiles/vrsrini/<https://scraperwiki.com/profiles/vrsrini/> >> >> ----- >> >> Apropos MP/MLA Shape files though, >> >> I am disappointed that despite putting in a lot of effort, there has been >> no headway in obtaining shapefiles for constituencies though. It is just a >> shame. >> >> Best, >> Srinivasan >> >> -- >> Srinivasan V. Ramani , >> Senior Assistant Editor, >> Economic and Political Weekly , >> New Delhi: 110 067 >> >> >> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Megha Vishwanath <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> Hey Venkat, >>> >>> Am not sure, but cant the Govt sites expose these data in a structured >>>> manner? How is the OpenData-Gov movement working on these fronts. >>>> >>>> IMHO, if you are still relying on scraping data for NGO activities i >>>> think you are trying to a wrong problem. Not only are you overloading the >>>> Govt servers but are relying on a neanderthal technology. >>>> >>>> I need this data for my organisation's use. If the data is available in >>> a structured manner, that'll be perfect to address my need. >>> >>> And is scraping neanderthal? What's the newest means by which I can get >>> this data then? I'm willing to explore... >>> >>> -Megha >>> >>> >>> -- >>> For more details about this list >>> http://datameet.org/**discussions/ <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 datameet+u...@**googlegroups.com. >>> >>> For more options, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> >>> . >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- > 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. > > > -- 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.
