>i will rename the attributes so the length of attribute name is 8. Can you put an issue. Easy to track. There is no need to do that. This is one of the limitations of the shapefile format, and we have no such limitations when we have a GeoJSON file.
> in census, they use subdistrict. Is it same as Taluk? Pretty much. In different parts of the country, sub districts are called by different names. They can be called Taluk, Tehesil, Mandal, Blocs, etc, depending on where you are in the country. hence the Census came up with an Abstract name for them. Regards, Devdatta On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Thejesh GN <i...@thejeshgn.com> wrote: > @arun: i will rename the attributes so the length of attribute name is 8. > Can you put an issue. Easy to track. > > @question: in census, they use subdistrict. Is it same as Taluk? > > Also anyone has 2001 to 2011 village code mappings? > > On Aug 15, 2016 9:32 PM, "Thejesh GN" <i...@thejeshgn.com> wrote: > > > > > On 15 August 2016 at 18:12, "Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]" < > sharad.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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? >> >> > Its the same effort, This is going to be our single effort. In this > phase-1 we are going to publish boundaries of the villages for states which > are derived from the government websites. We are applying our license - > ODBL to the additional skilled and creative work our volunteers do, > designing, organizing, extracting, georeferencing, drawing missing areas, > adding more attributes, cleaning etc and attribute/credit the source (Govt > Website) for each state. > > I know there are more boundaries with complicated licenses. The talks are > still on, as of now we are not publishing them. we will look at them in > phase-2. We will keep the list updated. > > So as of now its govt public data + DataMeet volunteer's creative work. > > >> 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? >> >> > > Our boundaries are incomplete in some cases or might have errors. Hence we > are maintaining them in git similar to source code, where any changes to > the file can be seen tracked and seen. > > geojson or json is a simple text format. Which can be opened by a simple > text editor and hence gives advantage to compare the versions, do a diff > just like source code. > > Shape files are a format by ESRI is more like a binary format. Its > difficult to compare them on GitHub. > > I would suggest http://mapshaper.org/ (Its open source so you can run > internally if required) . You can convert between > Shapefiles/geojson/topojson. Work on them and export. I have attached > screenshots. > > I have been using it a lot and it has really great support for all > formats. I would suggest you to use http://mapshaper.org/ and let the > group know if you face any issues. > > > Let me know if you have any more questions. > > > >> Thanks. >> Sharad >> >> - >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: "Data{Meet}" <donotre...@wordpress.com> >> Date: 15 Aug 2016 10:27 >> Subject: [New post] Happy Independence Day and Open Indian Village >> Boundaries >> To: <sbadi...@atree.org> >> 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" >> >> >> New post on *Data{Meet}* >> <http://datameet.org/?author=1> 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> * >> >> Picture: Kedarnath range behind the Kedarnath temple early morning. 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