Its quite possible. I've used python+selenium to automate browser for a horribly designed website. You can tweak it for your usage: https://github.com/dilawar/GreenWatchData
best, Dilawar On Saturday, April 25, 2020 at 1:26:28 PM UTC+5:30, Sharad Lele wrote: > > Dear All, > A followup question addressed to everyone on the DATAMEET group: > > Can someone write code to help download a large number of cadastral maps > from a Bhunaksha website (in our case Chhattisgarh)? As you know, the > website /portal is awkwardly organized: not only are the maps in png format > (which is okay) but they don't have individual file names, and one has to > access each village separately by choosing it from a list within a taluka > (and within that some Revenue Inspector category). > > Can someone write code to download and tag a bunch of maps automatically? > Say for one whole taluka? > > Sharad > > On Friday, 13 December 2019 19:09:02 UTC+5:30, Sharad Lele wrote: >> >> Dear All, >> I have discovered a source of cadastral maps for several states. This is >> mostly under the BhuNaksha initiative of NIC. They seem to have created >> separate websites for each state. Don't know for how many. I have found: >> >> Maharashtra: >> https://mahabhunakasha.mahabhumi.gov.in/bhunaksha/27/index.jsp >> Madhya Pradesh: http://www.mpbhuabhilekh.nic.in/ >> Chhattisgarh: https://bhunaksha.cg.nic.in/#home-pane (DOES NOT WORK >> RIGHT NOW) >> Odisha: http://bhunakshaodisha.nic.in/bhunaksha/ >> >> The BhuNaksha websites have a common format: you can choose district, >> taluka and village, and then the village cadastral map shows up (its in png >> format). You can click on a plot/parcel, and it will show the details of >> that plot: area, owner name, etc. You can generate pdf report for that >> parcel. >> >> Maharashtra version had added ability to show you the cadastral map in >> geo-rectified mode on top of a google-earth-like satellite image--quite >> useful. >> >> CATCH: a) the names of district, taluka, village etc are IN THE STATE >> SCRIPT: so devanagari for MP & Maha & CG, but Odiya for Odisha. So if you >> don't read that script--you are sunk >> b) in most states (except Maharashtra!), it is not enough to know the >> district, taluka and village name. Within a taluka, you have know Revenue >> Inspector and then something called 'halka', and then choose from the >> villages within that halka. If you don't know this (RI and halka), you have >> to do brute force: search in each halka in each RI! (typical sarkari >> rubbish: not wanting common people to actually use the website!). >> >> Karnataka seems to have its own initiative: >> https://www.landrecords.karnataka.gov.in/service3/ >> Here, you can actually download pdfs of each cadastral map, and in some >> cases, even the KML! And searching for the village is district, taluka and >> then village. >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> I am sure there are more such websites for other states. Please look up >> and share. >> >> Sharad >> > -- 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 datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/8ba4688b-25fd-4d01-a4da-5adc31da1459%40googlegroups.com.