Re: [datameet] digitizing maps update

2015-12-21 Thread Arun Ganesh 
Just approved my RTI application that was drafted by OnlineRTI to send to
the Corporation of Chennai.

i encourage everyone who advised to file an RTI to give it a try, this was
rather easy.

On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 11:31 PM, Arun Ganesh  wrote:

> Just filed for one through onlineRTI for the shapefiles for Chennai. Lets
> see how that goes.
>
> Thanks Pradeep.
>
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Pradeep Bhatt 
> wrote:
>
>> Guys,
>>
>> Some days back Vinoth had mentioned about OnlineRTI.com where you can
>> apply RTI online for any govt in India and they take care of drafting and
>> all other formalities.
>>
>> This month PayTM is sponsoring social RTIs on the site. Digital dataset
>> is very much a social RTI.
>>
>> You mentioned series of RTIs at different level, you can do on the site
>> for free. All it needs is creating a PayTM account, you can read more here
>> onlinerti.com/paytm
>>
>> Disclaimer : I am co-founder here
>>
>> Regards
>> Pradeep
>>
>> Till 31st December Pa
>> On 19-Dec-2015 21:06, "Justin Meyers" 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I think some things may have to be digitized from pdf/ jpeg/ paper maps
>>> (because the government will not allow any dissemination of a digital
>>> format, for whatever reason they see fit).  However all India data (slum,
>>> ward, ac/pc, district, village, tehsil/ taluk, etc) exists in a digital
>>> format.  I think the most important thing to do is start a series of RTIs.
>>> File one per layer/ dataset per agency per state/ federal.  There is no
>>> other way to get quality information.  Even commercial gis data in India
>>> (while it passes certain standards/ criteria) exists, it isn't always the
>>> greatest quality.  While a lot of data exists, sometimes, the quality is
>>> lacking.  If we do just download data, it may be missing pieces,
>>> attributes, etc.  For some parts of the nation data is well outdated, and
>>> others it is amazing.  I saw Nisha had started a github (I believe it has
>>> changed already), but she listed places in Bihar that could be digitized.
>>> I went to a few of the sites (http://ceobihar.nic.in/map/MainMenu.asp
>>> and http://gis.bih.nic.in/Map/BiharMap.aspx ) and downloaded a few
>>> maps.  These are nice, but generalized.  I then compared with some
>>> downloaded data.  You can be the judge.  Attached is a sample of the
>>> downloaded data.  I think some of it is nice, but some is heavily
>>> generalized.
>>>
>>> I know a few people on datameet have downloaded data and served it back
>>> to the public or just kept it.  Some data exists here:
>>> https://archive.org/details/IndiaVillageBoundaries I believe Thejesh GN
>>> did this.  It is not complete, has holes, and I am not sure all of the
>>> attributes exist.
>>>
>>> I believe that a detailed system of filing RTIs is the best way to
>>> pursue the data.  I imagine many will be denied.  But I think it is the
>>> best way to start.  Then we can figure out what to do as a next step.
>>>
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Re: [datameet] Re: Map Digitalization Effort

2015-12-21 Thread Arun Ganesh 
The digitization will involve using a combination of tools. If anyone can
share a use case on how they want to use the data, it will help create
simple instructional guides to document the process. The OpenStreetMap
India community can help with making guides and teaching if needed.

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Namrata Mehta 
wrote:

> the skill sharing hangouts on how to digitalize would be great. i'd like
> to contribute, especially with gurgaon / delhi.
>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Nisha Thompson 
> wrote:
>
>> Here you go:
>>
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UUqc-QZxhYkxmP4v78-adyHjDN6R8vQsCBwynXX30pU/edit?usp=sharing
>>
>>
>> Folder for upload
>>
>>
>> https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0YyF4NZwNUHODNaZHZiT1NFbjQ=sharing
>>
>> Can we also track if the RTI has been filed as well and who
>>
>> Nisha
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Sharad Lele 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Nisha,
>>>
>>> Can you take the csv given by Justin, and create an online spreadsheet,
>>> with columns indicating URL for source pdf /jpeg, whether digitized or not,
>>> if not then who is taking the lead on that city, and URL of final
>>> shapefile something like that...?
>>>
>>> I can contribute shapefile for Coimbatore city ward boundaries also, if
>>> I know where to send it/upload it.
>>>
>>> Ideally, we would want pdfs and shapefiles all sitting in parallel
>>> folders in the same location?
>>>
>>> Sharad
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday, December 18, 2015 at 7:00:52 PM UTC+5:30, Justin Meyers wrote:

 Chinmay,
>>
> here is a csv of top 150 cities:
 Source:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_India_by_population

 rank,City,Population 2011,Population 2001,State
 1,Mumbai,"12,478,447","11,978,450",Maharashtra
 2,New Delhi,"11,007,835","9,879,172",Delhi
 3,Bangalore,"8,425,970","4,301,326",Karnataka
 4,Hyderabad[5][6],"7,170,545","3,637,483",Telangana
 5,Chennai[7],"6,727,000","4,343,645",Tamil Nadu
 6,Ahmedabad,"5,570,585","3,520,085",Gujarat
 7,Kolkata,"4,486,679","4,572,876",West Bengal
 8,Surat,"4,462,002","2,433,835",Gujarat
 9,Pune,"3,115,431","2,538,473",Maharashtra
 10,Jaipur,"3,073,350","2,322,575",Rajasthan
 11,Lucknow,"2,815,601","2,185,927",Uttar Pradesh
 12,Kanpur,"2,767,031","2,551,337",Uttar Pradesh
 13,Nagpur,"2,405,421","2,052,066",Maharashtra
 14,Indore,"1,960,631","1,474,968",Madhya Pradesh
 15,Visakhapatnam[8],"1,897,823","982,904",Andhra Pradesh
 16,Thane,"1,818,872","1,262,551",Maharashtra
 17,Bhopal,"1,798,218","1,437,354",Madhya Pradesh
 18,Pimpri-Chinchwad,"1,729,359","1,012,472",Maharashtra
 19,Patna,"1,683,200","1,366,444",Bihar
 20,Vadodara,"1,666,703","1,306,227",Gujarat
 21,Ghaziabad,"1,636,068","968,256",Uttar Pradesh
 22,Ludhiana,"1,613,878","1,398,467",Punjab
 23,Coimbatore[9],"1,601,438","930,882",Tamil Nadu
 24,Agra,"1,574,542","1,275,134",Uttar Pradesh
 25,Madurai[10],"1,561,129","928,869",Tamil Nadu
 26,Nashik,"1,486,973","1,077,236",Maharashtra
 27,Faridabad,"1,404,653","1,055,938",Haryana
 28,Meerut,"1,309,023","1,039,405",Uttar Pradesh
 29,Rajkot,"1,286,995","967,476",Gujarat
 30,Kalyan-Dombivali,"1,246,381","1,193,512",Maharashtra
 31,Vasai-Virar,"1,221,233","693,350",Maharashtra
 32,Varanasi,"1,201,815","1,091,918",Uttar Pradesh
 33,Srinagar,"1,192,792","898,440",Jammu and Kashmir
 34,Aurangabad,"1,171,330","873,311",Maharashtra
 35,Dhanbad,"1,161,561","1,065,327",Jharkhand
 36,Amritsar,"1,132,761","966,862",Punjab
 37,Navi Mumbai,"1,119,477","704,002",Maharashtra
 38,Allahabad,"1,117,094","975,393",Uttar Pradesh
 39,Ranchi,"1,073,440","847,093",Jharkhand
 40,Howrah,"1,072,161","1,007,532",West Bengal
 41,Jabalpur,"1,054,336","932,484",Madhya Pradesh
 42,Gwalior,"1,053,505","827,026",Madhya Pradesh
 43,Vijayawada,"1,034,358","851,282",Andhra Pradesh
 44,Jodhpur,"1,033,918","851,051",Rajasthan
 45,Raipur,"1,010,087","605,747",Chhattisgarh
 46,Kota,"1,001,365","694,316",Rajasthan
 47,Guwahati,"963,429","809,895",Assam
 48,Chandigarh,"960,787","808,515",Chandigarh
 49,Solapur,"951,118","872,478",Maharashtra
 51,Hubballi-Dharwad,"943,857","786,195",Karnataka
 52,Tiruchirappalli[11],"916,674","752,066",Tamil Nadu
 53,Bareilly,"898,167","718,395",Uttar Pradesh
 54,Moradabad,"889,810","641,583",Uttar Pradesh
 55,Mysore,"887,446","755,379",Karnataka
 56,Tiruppur[12],"877,778","344,543",Tamil Nadu
 57,Gurgaon,"876,824","173,542",Haryana
 58,Aligarh,"872,575","669,087",Uttar Pradesh
 59,Jalandhar,"862,196","706,043",Punjab
 60,Bhubaneswar,"837,737","648,032",Orissa
 61,Salem,"831,038","696,760",Tamil Nadu
 62,Mira-Bhayandar,"814,655","520,388",Maharashtra
 63,Warangal[13],"811,844","530,636",Telangana

[datameet] Data Scraping - Madhya Pradesh Education Portal

2015-12-21 Thread tariq 
Dear All,

I am looking to extract fee, admission and school information data from the 
Madhya 
Pradesh Education Data Portal . 
Looking forward to engaging with programmers from datameet and the larger 
programming and data science community to get the job done. Some of the 
data sets are the following:

   1. School level information of Section 12(1)c beneficiaries - 
   
http://www.educationportal.mp.gov.in/RTESR/Public/proposal_Details_District_wise.aspx
   2. School level Section 12(1)c fee reimbursement - 
   
http://www.educationportal.mp.gov.in/RTESR/SocialAudit/Schools_Provided_RTE_Fee_Reimbursement.aspx
   a

Thanks so much.
Tariq Musthafa

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