I've simplified the geometries to a smaller file (from 30MB to less than
1MB) using MapShaper and made them available
here: https://gist.github.com/curran/49fa25fc44c84fcbebb51e60946145a4
Regards,
Curran
On Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at 1:46:17 PM UTC-4 Uday Bhaskar Reddy wrote:
> Hello Nikil,
>
> I am very sorry for the delay in replying to your email. Appreciate and
> thank you for finding the time to test the working of the file. I will
> follow your instructions and try it again.
>
> Regards,
> Uday.
>
>
> On Mon, 1 May 2023 at 11:31, Nikhil VJ <nikh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Uday,
>>
>> I just reproduced the steps and successfully loaded it to QGIS. no error
>> in the file.
>> Please go through all the explanations given in the thread. They've been
>> VERY basic.
>>
>> If you're still not able to do it correctly, then you need to give some
>> exact details so that someone can help you. Like :
>> - what is size of saved file - if it's not around 39mb (some computers
>> calculate bytes differently (1024 vs 1000) so bit difference may be there
>> but explainable) - then you don't have the actual data file and you've
>> saved something else and are on wrong track
>> - what is extension of saved file - if it's not .geojson then you're on
>> wrong track.
>> - open the file in a text editor like VSCode and share the content up
>> till : " line 8 column 1" where you're getting the error. And if it's not
>> looking like:
>> {"type":"FeatureCollection", "features": [
>> {"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[71.2702884145729,23
>>
>> ....
>> ... then you're on wrong track.
>>
>> Sometimes it's just a messed-up download due to network issues and simply
>> repeating the download again solves it.
>>
>> Do try looking up online for what the .geojson format looks like, compare
>> etc to catch out any obvious mistakes.
>> If you're convinced that you're following everything properly and still
>> getting it wrong, then make a screen recording, upload to youtube and share
>> the link so you can show exact process and get feedback.
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Nikhil VJ
>> https://nikhilvj.co.in
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 10:14 PM uday...@gmail.com <uday...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> QGIS throws error when i tried to open these files. Even geojson.io is
>>> throwing up an error - "Invalid JSON file: SyntaxError: JSON.parse:
>>> unexpected character at line 8 column 1 of the JSON data". I am new to GIS
>>> and intersted to learn. Kindly look into this, as you have time. Any help
>>> is highly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Uday.
>>>
>>> On Friday, 11 November 2022 at 12:40:13 UTC+5:30 Nikhil VJ wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Rahul,
>>>>
>>>> Once you see the:
>>>>
>>>>> It is just opening a long list of lat and longs of feature polygon
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> .. press Ctrl+S on your keyboard.
>>>> Save it to your computer. ensure that the file has extension as
>>>> ".geojson".
>>>>
>>>> That is the shapefile. There's various formats - this one is .geojson.
>>>> Devdatta mentioned another format which would be the .shp etc. All are
>>>> equally usable, all depends on your next step.
>>>>
>>>> Open QGIS or ArcGIS and drag-drop this in, you'll see it on map.
>>>> Or, go on https://geojson.io and drag-drop it there, you'll see it on
>>>> map.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Nikhil VJ
>>>> https://nikhilvj.co.in
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 11:25 AM Devdatta Tengshe <devd...@tengshe.in>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Rahul,
>>>>>
>>>>> This data is in GeoJSON format, and not shapefile.
>>>>>
>>>>> Once you download the data in GeoJSON format, you can then convert it
>>>>> to a Shapefile using a GIS tool like QGIS, or one of many online
>>>>> convertors.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Devdatta
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 8 Nov 2022 at 10:38, Rahul Dhiman <rahuldhim...@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello Akula. First of all thankyou for taking time to create this
>>>>>> shape file and making our lives easier. Please can anybody tell me how
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> download the data, as when I am clicking download. It is just opening a
>>>>>> long list of lat and longs of feature polygon. How I can download the
>>>>>> shape
>>>>>> file?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Rahul
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Monday, 22 August 2022 at 08:26:49 UTC+5:30 cara.a...@berkeley.edu
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you!!!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 11:31 AM akula.g...@gmail.com <
>>>>>>> akula.g...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have updated INDIAN-DISTRICTS shapefile with all new districts
>>>>>>>> even including newly formed Andhra Pradesh districts counting a total
>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>> 755 districts.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://github.com/datta07/INDIAN-SHAPEFILES/blob/master/INDIA/INDIA_DISTRICTS.geojson
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>> Akula Guru Datta
>>>>>>>> akuladatta.github.io
>>>>>>>>
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