Dear all,

just a warning that my polling booth locality data is quite useless for
2019 in most states - booth IDs will have changed... For UP I might get
around to update them but not currently for other states. So don't use
this data to map the ongoing elections!

You have been warned ;-)
Raphael

On 3/25/19 2:12 PM, Arun Ganesh wrote:
> Hey all, i've made a map of the electoral boundaries and polling booths
> using available data: Electoral Map of India
> <https://api.mapbox.com/styles/v1/planemad/cjoescdh20cl62spey0zj3v19.html?fresh=true&title=true&access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoicGxhbmVtYWQiLCJhIjoiemdYSVVLRSJ9.g3lbg_eN0kztmsfIPxa9MQ#4.56/22.34/75.08>
> 
> Data sources:
> - Assembly constituency boundaries: Datameet
> https://github.com/datameet/maps/tree/master/assembly-constituencies
> - Polling booths: Raphael Susewind
> (2014) https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/data/2674065
> 
> Have used the assembly boundaries as they had a higher definition the
> the parliamentary boundaries. When you zoom in the PC name should be
> visible.
> 
> Is there a more recent dataset of the polling booths available anywhere?
> Found scraped data from the ECI site  at
> https://github.com/aaronrudkin/IndianPollingStations from 5 months ago,
> but looks like the latlong values were not scraped and has been geocoded
> to the town centre which are not very useful. The scraper also does not
> seem to work anymore.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 7:43 AM Avinash Celestine
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     Constituency boundaries were last delimited in 2008, and have not
>     changed since.
> 
>     On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 12:06 AM Arun Ganesh <[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>         With the upcoming elections, this would be a hot dataset that
>         everyone will be looking for. The best available dataset on the
>         web right now is on the datameet repository
>         
> <https://github.com/datameet/maps/tree/master/parliamentary-constituencies>
>         updated during the previous elections in 2014.
> 
>         Does anyone know if there have been changes in the constituency
>         boundaries since 2014? Also the existing boundaries are fairly
>         generalized resulting in an accuracy of around a km.
> 
>         See this comparison for Bengaluru: 1) PC shapes from datameet 2)
>         AC shapes from datameet 3) PC shapes from Karnataka KSRAC
>         new1.gif
> 
>         The KSRAC boundaries was queried from their geoserver
>         
> <https://stg1.ksrsac.in/maps/rest/services/Polling/Polling_PC/MapServer/0/query?where=OBJECTID+is+not+null&text=&objectIds=&time=&geometry=&geometryType=esriGeometryEnvelope&inSR=&spatialRel=esriSpatialRelIntersects&relationParam=&outFields=&returnGeometry=true&returnTrueCurves=false&maxAllowableOffset=&geometryPrecision=&outSR=4326&returnIdsOnly=false&returnCountOnly=false&orderByFields=&groupByFieldsForStatistics=&outStatistics=&returnZ=false&returnM=false&gdbVersion=&returnDistinctValues=false&resultOffset=&resultRecordCount=&f=geojson>
>  and
>         are super accurate upto the street level, but is limited to only
>         Karnataka. Does anyone know how we can source this for the
>         entire country?
> 
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