Justin,
Just one comment:
"Locations" is a loose concept, and mapped in wikimapia it is even more
vague. As elsewhere, in India, words like location, settlement or even
village mean different things to different people. Census follows a
rigorous definition, using 'revenue villages' as the main unit, with
'forest villages' in a few cases. In wikimapia, one may see tags for
hamlets that are subsets of revenue villages (but have a different
name), but their data will be part of the census data of the revenue
village.
Sharad
On 01-Oct-14 6:32 PM, Justin Meyers wrote:
The last little problem with the census data is that it is missing
hundreds, if not thousands of locations. In looking at some village
level data, there are clearly two or more different villages/
settlements in some of their village polygons. although OSM and
wikimapia are crowd projects, I believe some of the data there is
correct.
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