Thank You for prompt reply and new data On Wed, 11 Jan 2023 at 19:24, Vaidya <vaidyanatha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Gaurav, > > 562112 seems to point to Harohalli which is in Ramanagara district? > There is a new pincode map here that has some 562XXX codes that cover the > suburbs of Bangalore. > Hope this helps. > > https://data.opencity.in/dataset/pincode-maps-of-cities/resource/pincode-map---bengaluru > > Thanks, > Vaidya > > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 1:30 PM gauravm...@gmail.com < > gauravmeena0...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I was just using the Bengaluru file for pincode visualization. relaised >> that new pincodes like 562112 is not available here. >> how to add these? >> >> On Wednesday, 8 March, 2017 at 9:15:58 pm UTC+5:30 Vaishnavi Jayakumar >> (Inclusive India) wrote: >> >>> Thanks Devdatta. If you could point out problematic areas, we could look >>> at >>> having it fixed. >>> On 08-Mar-2017 2:39 pm, "Devdatta Tengshe" <devd...@tengshe.in> wrote: >>> >>>> Hey Vaishnavi, >>>> That looks interesting. >>>> >>>> I've scraped the boundaries for the 6 cities, and put them here: >>>> https://github.com/datameet/PincodeBoundary >>>> >>>> At first glance, there are some oddities in the data, so I'll suggest >>>> that you cross check before using them. >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Devdatta >>>> >>> >>>> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 12:52 PM, Vaishnavi Jayakumar (Inclusive India) >>>> <vaishnavi.jayaku...@inclusiveindia.info> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Reminder in case anyone has inputs on this a year later - the >>>>> geo-entities standard bit. >>>>> >>>>> ALSO - what is the latest feedback on postal GIS? Any feedback I could >>>>> pass on? In July 2016 it was still work in progress. >>>>> >>>>> http://postoffice.umd.nic.in:8080/nicutility/# >>>>> FYI >>>>> >>>>> *#Pincode* >>>>> >>>>> I had spoken a week back to a friend from the Indian Postal service >>>>> regarding pincode layers, here's what she replied : >>>>> >>>>> "We do not have an official map yet. Currently am working in >>>>> geotagging all our post offices with delivery boundaries. We have >>>>> geotagged >>>>> 150000 post offices. Drawing pincode boundaries with ISRO. Hope to provide >>>>> public access in 4-5 months." >>>>> >>>>> So will check with her again in August. >>>>> >>>>> *#Geocodes #GLC* >>>>> >>>>> On a related matter, I was wondering what the group's knowledge is on >>>>> standardised codes for government properties. To explain - in the last >>>>> couple of months I have been struggling with poorly specified addresses >>>>> provided by Government authorities for purposes as diverse as Chennai rain >>>>> shelter locations to assembly election polling booths. If the rain shelter >>>>> information provided was maddeningly obfuscatory, the polling booth >>>>> entries >>>>> were uniquely different for the SAME polling station location. Extensive >>>>> manual cleanup by volunteers had to happen before it could even be >>>>> processed by the polling booth access audit app. >>>>> >>>>> My question is this : >>>>> >>>>> Surely as part of data.gov.in an initiative that standardises data >>>>> collection codes across departments and ministries can be developed which >>>>> will save everyone a lot of time and effort? So while the thrust would be >>>>> on ALL government buildings initially - layers like schools, parks, >>>>> post-office, revenue office, ration shop etc should be available on a >>>>> drill >>>>> down basis. >>>>> >>>>> So if one needs to reference a particular postoffice in rural Tamil >>>>> Nadu - a code comprising standard census state, district downwards code + >>>>> rural / urban indicator + administrative allotment (political, centre vs >>>>> state cs Municipal vs panchayat) + purpose >>>>> <https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/migrated/pam/programs/property_management/upload/GSArealguidance.pdf> >>>>> indicator + building particulars (toilet availability, parking facility >>>>> etc) >>>>> >>>>> Something open and internationally standard on these lines with scope >>>>> for evolution and addiition is what I'm imagining - >>>>> http://vcgi.vermont.gov/sites/vcgi/files/standards/partii_section_j.pdf >>>>> - does anything like this exist? Is it on the cards? What IS the >>>>> international open standard adopted across governments? >>>>> >>>>> Looking forward to the group's thoughts / knowledge in this respect. >>>>> >>>>> Vaishnavi >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------- >>>>> *VAISHNAVI JAYAKUMAR* >>>>> http://about.me/vjayakumar >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Raphael Susewind < >>>>> li...@raphael-susewind.de> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Dear Avinash and all, >>>>>> >>>>>> I will try to make some time this week to scrape the pincodes from >>>>>> electoral rolls for all polling booths in my electoral GIS shapefiles. >>>>>> >>>>>> Since pincode is in latin script, this should not be affected by the >>>>>> much discussed PDF scraping issues with electoral rolls. >>>>>> >>>>>> We could then either go down the voronoi route, or alternatively use >>>>>> the >>>>>> heatmap processing chain that I used to generate AC boundaries - this >>>>>> latter would have the advantage of dealing with wrong coordinates in >>>>>> the >>>>>> booth point dataset (basically, not all electoral booth coordinates >>>>>> are >>>>>> correct; consequently, if we only voronoi, we would have a blip of >>>>>> pincode B within a see of pincode A quite frequently. The heatmap >>>>>> stuff >>>>>> takes care of this). >>>>>> >>>>>> Since I am not familiar with postal boundaries: can anyone here >>>>>> confirm >>>>>> whether pincode areas are contiguous, and whether each pincode has >>>>>> only >>>>>> one area? Or can it be that several non-contiguous areas have the same >>>>>> pincodem intersparsed with other pincodes? (In which case voronoi >>>>>> would >>>>>> perhaps be the better solution at last) >>>>>> >>>>>> In any case, I hope to give you the pincode for each polling booth by >>>>>> end of the week or so (based on all-India 2014 electoral rolls), >>>>>> >>>>>> Best, >>>>>> Raphael >>>>>> >>>>>> On 28.03.2016 06:33, Avinash Celestine wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> > perhaps one way is to avoid using postal data altogether. >>>>>> > >>>>>> > All header pages in electoral rolls(the first page) contain the >>>>>> name of >>>>>> > the polling station related to that roll, the PS number, and >>>>>> importantly >>>>>> > the pin code. >>>>>> > >>>>>> > A site like psleci.nic.in <http://psleci.nic.in> has geog >>>>>> coordinates >>>>>> > of polling stations (though Raphael had collected the data >>>>>> earlier*). >>>>>> > Matching the two will give a fairly dense scattering of points - in >>>>>> > fact much more dense than if we used some of the methods earlier in >>>>>> this >>>>>> > thread. >>>>>> > >>>>>> > We thus have a way of associating a pin code with a geo coordinate. >>>>>> We >>>>>> > can then use the voronoi method. >>>>>> > >>>>>> > Electoral rolls are mostly in pdf which make them difficult to >>>>>> scrape. >>>>>> > But from what i have seen, for any given state, the location on the >>>>>> > header page, of the pincode number is more or less constant, making >>>>>> it >>>>>> > possible to target just that part of the page with any pdf parser. >>>>>> > >>>>>> > Electoral rolls have become difficult to download in bulk( a good >>>>>> > thing!) but i understand different people on this group have the >>>>>> pdfs >>>>>> > for different states. Putting this stuff together should give us >>>>>> > comprehensive data on header pages for atleast some states. >>>>>> > Alternatively, we can file RTIs for just the header pages of >>>>>> electoral >>>>>> > rolls, though i dont know how successful that would be. >>>>>> > >>>>>> > * Raphael's data is >>>>>> > at https://github.com/raphael-susewind/india-election-data >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 12:07 PM, srinivas kodali < >>>>>> iota....@gmail.com >>>>>> > <mailto:iota....@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>>>> > >>>>>> > Well, There were postal delivery zones in the past and the >>>>>> postal >>>>>> > department even used to make maps of these zones. The Delhi >>>>>> postal >>>>>> > delivery zone map >>>>>> > < >>>>>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1RcWLku0ZOWWVBHMldrZWdfZEU/view?usp=sharing> >>>>>> had >>>>>> > boundaries for delhi. I am not sure if other cities had them or >>>>>> how >>>>>> > long the postal department was doing this, but it certainly can >>>>>> help >>>>>> > with the boundaries for cities. >>>>>> > >>>>>> > Regards, >>>>>> > Srinivas Kodali >>>>>> > www.lostprogrammer.com <http://www.lostprogrammer.com> >>>>>> > /"Not everyone who wanders is lost, I am probably a bit"/ >>>>>> > >>>>>> > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 9:29 PM, Arun Ganesh < >>>>>> arung...@gmail.com >>>>>> > <mailto:arung...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>>>> > >>>>>> > Shravan, crowdsourcing the boundaries of pincodes is not as >>>>>> > trivial as you think. To start with, an area does not fall >>>>>> under >>>>>> > a pincode, rather a street does based on the post office >>>>>> that >>>>>> > services it. Read >>>>>> > this: >>>>>> http://www.georeference.org/doc/zip_codes_are_not_areas.htm >>>>>> > >>>>>> > You may also want to do some background reading of existing >>>>>> > research that has been done by the group >>>>>> > here: >>>>>> https://datameet.hackpad.com/M4hPFJVV2Gm?eid=v4YoXN4tTw5 >>>>>> > >>>>>> > To sum up, nobody has precise pincode boundaries like how >>>>>> you >>>>>> > imagine them, not even the postal department. 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