I tried spiking out a similar API last week, and parts of it look pretty easy to build. I tried to merge data from the shape files with datameet <https://github.com/datameet/maps> with MP information provided in http://sansad.co. Sansad provides its API from PRS <http://prsindia.org/>. Here <https://github.com/vinayvenu/politica> is a crude prototype prepared during a hackathon. It needs a lot of love. A live demo here <http://128.199.65.27:8090/leaders?y=12.9073061&x=77.6431242>. x and y are latitude and longitude.
On piece different from Google is that the API does not crowdsource the data. At an India scale, I am hoping we can find official sources of data that can be used to build this out. If no one already is providing this API, I am more than happy to finish this up and host it. Regards Vinay On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 8:44 PM, Amiruddin Nagri <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a nice initiative by Google. Only in US though. > > https://developers.google.com/civic-information/?hl=en_US > > Anybody know of any similar initiative for India ? > > Regards, > Amiruddin Nagri > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
