Dear all, just a heads up that the final version of these shapefiles just went online, using a slightly adjusted algorithm which works better in crowded urban areas:
http://dx.doi.org/10.4119/unibi/2674065 Hope they are useful, Raphael On 09.04.2014 17:53, Raphael Susewind wrote: > > Dear all, > > Krishna Prasnth's plea for AC shapefiles made me decide to start pushing > mine out there ahead of time in draft form at least. I would have loved > to have them ready before the Bangalore hackathon, but such things take > time and I am quite busy. > > Still, here they come at last: draft GIS shapefiles of parliamentary > constituencies, assembly constituencies and polling booth localities, > published under an open license (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0): > > http://www.raphael-susewind.de/blog/2014/mapping-indias-election > > Unlike the hackathon files, these were created using an automated > algorithm (described in the blog post above). I intend to release (and > long-time archive) them by end of the month, and would welcome comments > and feedback until then: if you are familiar with both GIS and a > specific state, it would help me a lot if you could have a look. > Likewise, comments on the general method are very welcome. > > So far, the smaller states are online, but I will add more on a rolling > basis - computing takes a few hours per constituency (longer for the > larger states). I hope to complete the set by end of the week. > > Let me know if you find them useful, > > Best, > Raphael > -- Raphael Susewind | BGHS Bielefeld University, CSASP University of Oxford Snail Mail | Melanchthonstr. 4a, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany Papers & Blog | http://www.raphael-susewind.de Please do consider http://www.gnupg.org for encryption (key id A5ED49AE) -- 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 datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
