Nisha,
Thank you for the information.  Do you have their e-mail addresses by 
chance?  I live in the United States and cannot travel any time soon, so I 
cannot visit their office.  What is the ISRO?  Does anyone here have a good 
relationship with them and could ask for village latitudes and longitudes?

Thanks!
Justin

On Friday, June 13, 2014 12:47:40 PM UTC-5, Nisha Thompson wrote:
>
> The people to contact are
>
> Dr. Sharma
> Dr. Bera
>
> They are on the Bhuvan and WRIS teams.  They are really very nice, but 
> between ISRO and Survey of India's map policies there isn't much they can 
> do regarding making more shapefiles available.  From my previous 
> conversations with WRIS they have said they could make non sensitive ISRO 
> data available, lat/long village points could be one of those datasets, but 
> we'll have to ask.  It might be worth reengaging them and making a few 
> requests.
>
> They have an office in Jodhpur, Hyderabad, and New Delhi, might be worth a 
> meeting between them and some people on the group.
>
> They attended an open data camp a few years ago.  I have their contact if 
> anyone is interested in getting a few people together and having a meeting. 
>  
>
> Nisha
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Thejesh GN <[email protected] 
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>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Justin Meyers <[email protected] 
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>>> I just found state, district, and taluk shapefiles yesterday from the 
>>> Indian Government if anyone is interested.
>>
>>
>> Please do share. We can upload it to github for future reference. 
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>> Thej
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