Any clues on how to get shapefile/boundaries at the polling booth level? On Friday, 20 January 2017 19:17:24 UTC+5:30, Harry Stevens wrote: > > I work for the Hindustan Times, where I sometimes make maps. Last year, I > made a bunch of maps for the assembly elections where I relied on spatial > data files that were pretty good but not perfectly accurate. This year, in > an effort to improve the accuracy of our map boundaries, I scraped the KML > files directly from the Election Commission's website ( > http://psleci.nic.in/), which I also converted to GEOJSON. As we are > supporters of open data in general, and DataMeet in particular, we have > decided to make the files public and share them with you first. Here are > the files in JSON and KML: > https://github.com/HindustanTimesLabs/shapefiles/tree/master/state/ac. > > We also thought it would be a good idea to begin sharing more of the > spatial data files we use to make maps, first as a way to centralise and > organise all the files we have stored on our hard drives or in the cloud, > and second as a way to contribute to the open mapping community. To that > end, we'll be regularly updating our shapefiles GitHub repo. There's not > much there now, but we're hoping to make it quite robust. Here's the repo: > https://github.com/HindustanTimesLabs/shapefiles > > By the way, if you're interested in the code used to scrape the AC files, > here it is: https://github.com/HindustanTimesLabs/eci-shape-scrape. > > - Harry >
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