Devdatta, Shafeeq, and Arun, Thanks for your help. I figured this would be pretty tricky... I am trying to put together a gis layer of these in polygon format (i have around 80% of Delhi done, but cannot find data for New Delhi, or Central Delhi). I attached a pic in my initial post. I have seen numerous gis layers for wards, districts, villages, etc floating around on the web, but they seem incorrect (so I am trying to build it myself). Do you know where i could locate a official map of villages for central and new delhi? or any gis data, or perhaps a list of villages with their respected latitude/ longitude?
Thanks! Justin On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 3:44:45 AM UTC-4, Arun Ganesh wrote: > > An Indian postal address would look something like this: > > <Addressee Name> > <Door/Flat/Building/Plot No> > <Street>, <Village/Neighbourhood> > <Suburb/Area/Post Office> > <Town/City/Subdistrict>,<State> > <Pincode> > > A correct pincode will reach the correct area, making the first three > lines the most important. > > On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Arun Ganesh <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Justin Meyers <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> lately i have seen posts about wards for larger cities. So back to my >>> original question; in larger cities in India (Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, >>> Bangalore, etc) when people refer to locations within the city, are they >>> talking about village, ward, slum, etc? >>> >> >> There is usually two parts to city place names: >> >> 1) Suburb/Area: This is the larger area and is well known to any resident >> of the city. Such areas are also served by a major post office, police >> station and may have its unique pincode. eg. Defence Colony, Paschim VIhar, >> Gurgaon City Centre. >> This name usually follows the name of the post office serving it. >> >> 2) Neighborhood: This is the more specific locality within the suburb >> and may be known to only the local residents. Neighborhoods may have their >> own internal addressing scheme defined by the local resident welfare >> association eg. Ram Colony, Kalu Sarai, B4 Vasant Kunj.. >> Neighbourhoods are very loosely defined and are officially defined only >> in the electoral rolls, where voter lists are prepared and voting booths >> have to be allocated. >> >> >> All this is based on personal observations, someone else can probably >> expose this dark corner better. >> >> >> >>> I am beyond confused!?! Does anyone on this forum live in any of these >>> larger cities? How do you refer to where you live or where you are from? >>> >> >> The real fun starts outside the city. My current postal address is my >> name followed by the name of the village :) >> >> -- >> Arun Ganesh >> (planemad) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad> >> >> > > > -- > 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.
