For some reason, this email by Thejesh did not show up datameet (or
maybe I just missed it?). So forwarding it to the group.
Thejesh, thanks for this. I have two queries:
1. Is this effort different from the effort by Nisha? My impression was
that we had (with the group) access to boundaries of many more states,
but the issue was copyright etc, and that Nisha, you and some others
were taking legal opinion on the same. Is what you have put out a result
of that? What is the legal opinion?
2. I think I have asked this silly question on the group before, but
have to ask it again: what is the 'json' format, and why is it better to
put the data out in that format than in .shp? And how does one convert
from json to .shp?
Thanks.
Sharad
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Date: 15 Aug 2016 10:27
Subject: [New post] Happy Independence Day and Open Indian Village
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Cc:
Thejesh GN posted: "One of the longest and most passionately discussed
subject on the Data{Meet} list is the availability of Indian Village
Boundaries in Digital format. Search for Indian Village shape files and
you can spend hours on reading interesting conversations. Over"
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Happy Independence Day and Open Indian Village Boundaries
<http://datameet.org/2016/08/15/happy-independence-day-open-indian-village-boundaries/>
by Thejesh GN <http://datameet.org/?author=1>
One of the longest and most passionately discussed subject on the
Data{Meet} list is the availability of Indian Village Boundaries in
Digital format. Search for Indian Village shape files
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21searchin/datameet/India$20Village$20boundaries$20%7Csort:relevance>
and you can spend hours on reading interesting conversations.
Over last two years different members of community have tried to
digitize
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21searchin/datameet/damle$20gujarat$20map%7Csort:relevance/datameet/zLP-eRtGxYY/FlQqBMriCAAJ>
the maps available through various government platforms or shared the
maps through their organizations
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/datameet/dBNmEToJ5CI>.
A look at the list discussion tells you that boundaries of at the least
75% of the states are available in various formats and quality. What we
need at this point is a consolidate effort to bring them all on par in
format, attributes and to some level quality. So some volunteers at
Data{Meet} agreed to come together, clean up the available maps, add
attributes, make them geojson and publish them on our GitHub repository
called Indian Village Boundaries
<https://github.com/datameet/indian_village_boundaries>.
Of course this will be an on going effort but we would love to reach a
baseline (all states) by year end. As of now I have cleaned up and
uploaded Gujarat. I have at the least 4 more states to go live by month
end. Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Goa. I will announce them on the
list as they go live.
The boundaries are organized by state using state ISO code. All the
village boundaries are available in geojson (WGS84, EPSG4326) format.
The project page <https://github.com/datameet/indian_village_boundaries>
gives you the status of the data as we clean and upload. Data is not
perfect yet, there could many errors both in data and boundaries. You
can contribute by sending the pull requests. Please use the census names
when correcting the attributes and geojson for shapes and but please
source them to an official source.
Like everything else community creates. All map data will be available
under Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL)
<http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/>. This data is distributed in
the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. If you find issues we are more than happy to accept corrections
but please source them to an official source.
On this 70th Independence day, as we celebrate the historic event of
India becoming Free and Independent, Data{Meet} community celebrates by
cleaning, formatting and digitizing our village boundaries. Have a great
time using the maps and contributing back to society.
*https://github.com/datameet/indian_village_boundaries
<https://github.com/datameet/indian_village_boundaries>
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Picture: Kedarnath range behind the Kedarnath temple early morning. By
Kaustabh, Available under CCBYSA
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