Thej, if it helps, the OSM wiki probably has the most comprehensive documentation of the varying boundary levels in India http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_India/Boundaries
Would be great to get some experts well versed the the governance structure to take a look and provide feedback. On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Thejesh GN <[email protected]> wrote: > @dev > I was planning to rename attributes because if someone converts these > geojsons into shapefile then the name would remain same and reduce > confusion. > > What do you think? > > On Aug 16, 2016 1:49 PM, "Devdatta Tengshe" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >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 <[email protected]> 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" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> On 15 August 2016 at 18:12, "Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]" < >> [email protected]> 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}" <[email protected]> >>> Date: 15 Aug 2016 10:27 >>> Subject: [New post] Happy Independence Day and Open Indian Village >>> Boundaries >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> 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. 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