Thanks Arun. Even though I knew the datasets, I didnt know the WFS links. They are awesome.
Well, in my opition after analyzing several sources and gazette notifications for India: WPAD (protected planet): useless OSM: not so good and consistent ENVIS: good for some areas but not existent, wrong or not well georeferenced for many areas I assume that the best sources are the respective environmental/forest departments of the individual states, but unfortunately they don't publish that data. Another good and serious source seem to be the ESZ notifications from the Ministry of Enviroment and Forest, but you really need to digitalize everything. Javier On Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 7:43:11 PM UTC+1, Arun Ganesh wrote: > > Out of curiosity quickly compared the data quality in ENVIS and OSM and it > seems NEVIS might generally have more accurate boundaries, While OSM might > be more updated and contain newer areas that might not be there in the > ENVIS dataset and protected areas beyond NP and WLS. > > ENVIS is maybe accurate to 1-2kms. Here you can see some comparison of > ENVIS(dotted green), OSM (solid green) of Sanjay Gandhi NP to satellite > imager in Mumbai > > [image: Screen Shot 2019-11-06 at 1.37.14 PM.png] > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 1:22 PM Arun Ganesh <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Few more resources if you have QGIS and connect to these WFS Servers: >> - ENVIS server has protected areas layer with 609 features. This seems >> like the official data source to use. >> http://210.212.84.122:80/erdas-apollo/vector/WII_GEOGRAPHIC_DATA >> - india Biodiversity Portal seem to have a layer with community protected >> areas plus lots of other shapefiles thats more focused on the western >> ghats: https://indiabiodiversity.org/geoserver/ows?version=1.0.0 >> >> On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 12:59 PM Arun Ganesh <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> Just found the mapping coverage page on the OSM wiki and it looks like >>> most national parks and sanctuaries have been mapped >>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India/Protected_areas >>> >> -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/e5ce3998-781a-48e2-bec7-2424a24fbef0%40googlegroups.com.
