I would think that the tehsil/taluka boundaries would be a union of respective village/town boundaries.
____________________________________________________________ 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 22 March 2016 at 00:26, Arun Ganesh <[email protected]> wrote: > It would be interesting to know how postal boundaries are defined > officially. I have asked a couple of postmasters and the most even they > have is a hand drawn diagram of the postman's beat. > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Yogesh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Shravan, >> >> You can get them either from gadm[1] where there are some restrictions on >> the use of data or from OSM boundaries[2] site where the data is available >> under ODbL. But I'm not sure whether Tehsils of all Indian states have been >> mapped in OSM and also gadm data may not be complete/accurate. >> >> >> [1]http://www.gadm.org/download >> [2]https://osm.wno-edv-service.de/boundaries/ >> >> >> cheers, >> yogi >> >> >> >> On 03/21/2016 02:09 PM, shravan wrote: >> >> Hi Dilip, >> >> Where can I get the Tehsil boundaries from? >> >> Thanks, >> Shravan >> >> On 21 March 2016 at 13:15, Dilip Damle <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> One could then supers impose tehsil boundaries which are available and >>> fine tune the boundaries >>> >>> On Thursday, March 17, 2016 at 11:34:00 AM UTC+5:30, Raphael Susewind >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Shravan, >>>> >>>> another option - depending on what you are after - could be to use >>>> Devdatta's point data for post offices, voronoi it into polygons, and >>>> aggregate by pincode - that might not be the same as official >>>> boundaries, but the closest you can get (each locality in India would >>>> be >>>> assigned to the most proximate postoffice...) >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Raphael >>>> >>>> On 17.03.2016 06:18, Jaisen Nedumpala wrote: >>>> > Hi Shravan, >>>> > >>>> > I don't think that you would get it that easy. I was in search of >>>> this >>>> > data, since the year 2008. Eventually I could understand that even >>>> the >>>> > department of posts doesnt have this data. We could do it as a >>>> community >>>> > project to build it. Not easy, but not impossible. >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > 2016-03-17 10:32 GMT+05:30 shravan <[email protected] >>>> > <mailto:[email protected]>>: >>>> > >>>> > Hey everyone, >>>> > >>>> > I am looking for pin code boundaries of India, preferably in any >>>> of >>>> > the GIS file formats ( kml, kmz, shp, geojson or any other ). 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