Bihar has one of the most detailed map sets I can see. They have uploaded village boundaries as well.
http://gis.bih.nic.in/GISEditor.html Con: works only on InternetExplorer. On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Khaliq Parkar <[email protected]> wrote: > Ah! > let me tap my 'institutional' access to see what is possible. will update > soon. > > On 10/12/14, "Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Khaliq: > > > > I have seen similar materials for karnataka and tamil nadu (including > > also the village amenities directory, which is a mine of information). > > > > You are right that if one is to buy this for the whole state, it is > > quite a bit of money. > > > > But the bigger tragedy is (as I had said in a post not so long ago) that > > Census has, in its 2011 exercise, also created a GIS division that has > > converted all the boundaries in your pdf file to GIS format, and also > > gone and mapped down to the level of individual dwellings in many > > cities. They boast about this in a ppt that is available online which I > > had circulated, but they do not respond to any requests to make this GIS > > data base available (for free or for payment). > > > > Sharad > > > > On 12-Oct-14 11:12 AM, Khaliq Parkar wrote: > >> oh no. apart from the codes, their other data including their not so > >> precise maps. Attaching a 2001 sample. > >> Only Institutional purchase is viable considering the cost. > >> > >> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 11:18 PM, "Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]" > >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> > >> Khaliq: > >> When you say they 'sell it', i presume you are referring to the > >> location codes created in each census round and the tables that > >> link one to the other? in which case Sumit Mishra has already > >> posted the all-India dataset for this, right? > >> > >> Sharad > >> On 11-Oct-14 10:19 PM, Khaliq Parkar wrote: > >> > >> Yup, they do. I have all of Maharashtra and all of Bihar, and > >> I can acquire the rest too. I can gather it all and upload it > >> (approx 6-8 GB) if something comes out of it. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Democratizing Forest Governance in India > >> (In press with Oxford University Press India) > >> > >> -- > >> 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 a > >> topic in the Google Groups "datameet" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/datameet/T6rloStJtBs/unsubscribe. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email > >> to [email protected] > >> <mailto:datameet%[email protected]>. > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> 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 a topic in the > >> Google Groups "datameet" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/datameet/T6rloStJtBs/unsubscribe. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > >> [email protected] > >> <mailto:[email protected]>. > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > > Democratizing Forest Governance in India > > (In press with Oxford University Press India) > > > > -- > > 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 a topic in the > > Google Groups "datameet" group. > > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/datameet/T6rloStJtBs/unsubscribe. > > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- 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.
