On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Justin Meyers <[email protected] > wrote:
> Sajjad, > Thanks for the quick reply. I will look at the OSM admin levels tonight to > see if they have what I am looking for, but like I need multiple languages > for locations. I am not sure how to extract multiple levels of information > (tags, notes, names, etc) from OSM if the data has such information. An > example would be Andaman and Nicobar Isles, in Bengali আন্দামান ও নিকোবর > দ্বীপপুঞ্জ, in Hindi अंडमान तथा निकोबार द्वीपसमूह > > I appreciate any help or thoughts about how to get this data. Worst case > would be finding multiple lists and joining them or one-by-one linking... > For the districts it would be nice to find complete lists or datasets (if > such data exists) > > Thanks! > Justin > > On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 10:33:10 AM UTC-4, Sajjad Anwar wrote: > >> Hello Justin, >> >> The data that you are looking for is really interesting. I can't think >> of any source, but you might find it in OpenStreetMap >> (http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2018151). Look for >> boundary=administrative and admin_level 4 and 3. >> >> On the other hand, this is perhaps something that we can crowdsource? >> May be from the 2011 census shapefile. If people are up for it, we can >> coordinate it via Github or something. >> > The correct place for such a database would be wikidata<http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q592942>and then querying it as needed. A proof of concept of a multlingual India state map using wikidata: http://4thmain.github.io/projects/hacks/wiki-atlas.html >> Cheers, >> Sajjad. >> >> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Justin Meyers >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > I am looking for gis data that has administrative boundaries for india >> with english as well as Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, etc. I understand not all >> of these languages are used in each state/ district, but if the dataset has >> some of the information it would be better than none. Does anyone have >> such data or know of a good base layer and a point csv file that I could do >> a spatial join on? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Justin >> > >> > -- >> > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more >> about us by visiting http://datameet.org >> > --- >> > 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/d/optout. >> >> >> >> -- >> Sajjad Anwar http://geohacker.in >> > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more > about us by visiting http://datameet.org > --- > 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/d/optout. > -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad> -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- 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/d/optout.
