*Also anyone has 2001 to 2011 village code mappings?* I have this dataset, Thejesh.
On Tuesday, 16 August 2016 12:22:15 UTC+5:30, Thejesh GN 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] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > > On 15 August 2016 at 18:12, "Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]" < > [email protected] <javascript:>> 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] <javascript:>> >> Date: 15 Aug 2016 10:27 >> Subject: [New post] Happy Independence Day and Open Indian Village >> Boundaries >> To: <[email protected] <javascript:>> >> 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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