Hey everyone, have created a public API to find the parliamentary and assembly constituency at any given coordinate, along with the election date.
Try it out: https://api.mapbox.com/v4/planemad.3picr4b8/tilequery/*78.0714,32.2263* .json?limit=5&radius=0&dedupe=true&access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoicGxhbmVtYWQiLCJhIjoiY2p1MzBiMGtzMGF1NTRkanR6eXdkOGg5MiJ9.vuDqyahjLB1Bk_5bGp2YUw <https://api.mapbox.com/v4/planemad.3picr4b8/tilequery/78.0714,32.2263.json?limit=5&radius=0&dedupe=true&access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoicGxhbmVtYWQiLCJhIjoiY2p1MzBiMGtzMGF1NTRkanR6eXdkOGg5MiJ9.vuDqyahjLB1Bk_5bGp2YUw> Replace the longitude,latitude part to any other coordinate within India. Let me know if there are any errors. How it was done: - Uploaded the electoral boundaries from datameet <https://github.com/datameet/maps> to Mapbox <https://www.mapbox.com> to create a vector tileset <https://docs.mapbox.com/studio-manual/reference/tilesets/> - Use the Mapbox tilequery API <https://docs.mapbox.com/help/interactive-tools/tilequery-api-playground/> to query features within the tileset Note: The API call uses my personal access token, consider signing up for a free Mapbox account and replacing with your own token if you plan any heavy usage. On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 8:23 PM Arun Ganesh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 6:48 PM Devdatta Tengshe <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I have scraped the data, and uploaded it here: >> >> https://github.com/devdattaT/mah_election_data >> >> >> > Thanks Devdatta. > > Few other states also have detailed shapes available on their GIS servers > that is downloadable. Since license is never mentioned, can we take it that > the work by default falls under GODL > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:GODL-India> and start > uploading it on /datameet? > > >> >> Regards, >> Devdatta >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 5:39 PM rigved shenai <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Constituency boundaries are shown differently in multiple sources. The >>> Datameet dataset is good for Rural constituencies, but not accurate in case >>> of Urban areas. >>> I had inquired for those datasets to MapMyIndia but the cost they quoted >>> was exorbitant. and accuracy was not too good either. Maharashtra >>> boundaries are shown here in MSRAC portal(Choose "Electoral" in base layer >>> and zoom in) >>> http://mrsac.maharashtra.gov.in/geoportal/ >>> If someone is successful in extracting the shapefiles from this, Please >>> let me know. >>> If anyone wants to collaborate on data viasualization project on Indian >>> Elections, Feel free to connect. >>> - Rigved Shenai >>> 9594747357 >>> >>> On Saturday, March 16, 2019 at 12:06:51 AM UTC+5:30, Arun Ganesh 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 >>>> [image: 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? >>>> >>> -- >>> Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. 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