I had a similar experience. Spoke with the Mapping division office in Delhi, and was told that ward shapefiles are not not sold because they are classified! I wonder why too.
Esha On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Ma-roof M <[email protected]> wrote: > I had the opportunity to talk to personnel in the ORGI Mapping division > office in New Delhi. One can buy the city maps with ward boundaries from > the census office in the respective states - print or image or pdf. They > did say that the shapefiles are not sold - cant think of any reasonable > reason though.. :-). > > ____________________________________________________________ > Knowledge, that is *discovered*, lasts a lifetime.. > > Research Associate, PAS Project > CEPT University, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad, 380009 Gujarat, India > Per | [email protected] | > *www.pas.org.in <http://www.pas.org.in/> Mob:* +91 *94 285 10963 *| O: +91 > 79 26302470 ext: 467 > * f * fb.com/pas.cept | * in * linkedin.com/in/pascept > > > On 14 December 2015 at 21:31, Sourabh Ghurye <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Thank you Rithika and Devdatta for your data and comments. >> I also mailed Bhuvan, ISRO for the administrative boundary data. They >> said that it is available only for "visualization" and not for download. I >> can't understand why this data is not easily available. >> Anyway, Thanks. >> >> -- >> 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. > -- Esha Zaveri Ph.D Candidate, Dual-title Doctoral Program Environmental Economics and Demography The Pennsylvania State University 309A Armsby Building, University Park, PA 16802 -- 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.
