Re: [datameet] Protect area network of India

[Prabhakar Rajagopal]

You may want to look at this map recently deployed on the India
Biodiversity Portal...

https://indiabiodiversity.org/map?layers=lyr_281_india_bd_pas

Prabhakar

On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 8:29 AM Rahul G  wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am looking for a shape file having protected areas of India.
> Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Rahul
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Re: [datameet] Re: [Delhi Chapter Update] Meeting with Delhi Government

[Prabhakar Rajagopal]

Good initiative. Involving civil society from the beginnings in open data
projects.
Crowdsourcing information from the communities will be a good idea.

Best wishes. Please keep posted on progress.

Prabhakar


On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 12:14 AM manojdiw...@gmail.com <
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> hii
>
> On Friday, April 15, 2016 at 11:41:35 AM UTC+5:30 Guneet Narula wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Just wanted to update everyone on an important meeting we had earlier
>> this month. Hrid Bijoy Chakraborty from the office of the deputy chief
>> minister, Delhi contacted DataMeet last month regarding Delhi government's
>> plans to roll out the Mohalla Sabha Project - which is an idea to increase
>> local participation in governance and promote decentralization. He wanted
>> to discuss with us possibilities of GIS and open data related to the same.
>> Four of us (Nisha, Shashank, Praachi and I) met him and his colleagues on
>> 5th April at the Delhi Secretariat. We discussed their objectives in
>> length. Not surprisingly the project is complex and lengthy - and maybe,
>> rightly so. An important point to note, about three thousand mohalla
>> sabha's have been mapped out by the government according to electoral
>> booths.
>>
>> By the end of the meeting, we chalked out three broad action points:
>>
>> 1. Government will open relevant data about these mohalla sabhas,
>> demographics of the registered voters residing in each sabha. DataMeet
>> Delhi will help create and visualize a baseline with all this information.
>> 2. Using this as a building block, DataMeet Delhi will work towards the
>> larger goal of Open Data Policy/Act in Delhi.
>> 3. Help one of the government departments to organize and archive their
>> public documents (PDFs of acts, policies, schemes etc.) on the web. This
>> may then be replicated for all departments.
>>
>> As of now, we are waiting for Delhi Government to take the next steps in
>> each case. We will try to organize DataMeets around these as and when
>> required. And of course keep you all updated on what's happening.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Guneet
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Re: [datameet] Re: Survey of India published - District, Block and Village Boundaries

[Prabhakar Rajagopal]

Ddar Arun,

Please check the link.
I am unable to access the url. https://t.me/OSMIndia

Prabhakar

On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 10:01 AM Arun Ganesh  wrote:

> For those interested in inspecting and cleaning up the data, there's been
> active discussion about it on the OpenStreetMap India group
> https://t.me/OSMIndia
>
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 9:43 PM J M  wrote:
>
>> compiling here: https://github.com/justinelliotmeyers/INDIA_SOI_2022
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 8:35 PM Sharad Lele 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Craig for locating this dataset. Potentially solves all our
>>> problems. Yes, can add only one district at a time to the Shopping Cart,
>>> but can in theory keep going back and adding more items to the Cart (I did
>>> 2 at a time). Process for checking out and creating downloads involves many
>>> clicks... bit idiotic. But some substantive limitations after I downloaded
>>> and checked Dindori in MP:
>>>
>>> 1. Village boundaries do match latest village shapes from revenue
>>> layers, BUT they are east-shifted by 200m (they must have goofed the datum)
>>> 2. Polygons don't have any census ID, so linking to other data will
>>> require adding those manually (!!) or figuring out what numbering system
>>> SOI has used. Any thoughts on that?
>>> 3. I tried Andhra Pradesh two districts Vizag and Srikakulam, and it
>>> says "data not available yet". So the dataset is still in the making. Not
>>> sure what is available and what is not, overall.
>>>
>>> Sharad
>>> On Monday, September 19, 2022 at 7:27:05 PM UTC+5:30 craig...@gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>>>
 Sorry, i thought i was replying to Justin. I don't know if there are
 any download limits, except that you can only download one district at a
 time.

 On Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 19:25 Craig Dsouza  wrote:

> Seems like it yes.
>
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 17:56 Justin  wrote:
>
>> Great find! I am pretty sure you need a cell phone in India to
>> actually create an account/ access?
>>
>> On Monday, September 19, 2022 at 5:16:28 AM UTC-5 craig...@gmail.com
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey,
>>> has anyone written any scripts or downloaded & explored these?
>>> https://onlinemaps.surveyofindia.gov.in/Digital_Product_Show.aspx
>>> It seems SOI is now publishing District, Block and Village
>>> Boundaries in vector formats for free
>>>
>>> [image: soi-snapshot.jpg]
>>>
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Re: [datameet] Online conference on open data in India (Fri 25 Sep)

[Prabhakar Rajagopal]

Should I create an account and login to explore and see anything on an open
data platform?

On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 9:55 PM S Anand  wrote:

> Tomorrow (Fri 25 Sep 2020 10 am), there's a virtual conference run by the
> ISB team that built the India Data Portal  --
> the Open Data Conclave.
>
> This is to promote open data usage in India, and brings together people
> from government, media, academia, research, industry, and the data
> community. The topics include:
>
>- Open Data Platforms in India
>- Data-led Journalism in India
>- Open Data & Industry Case Studies
>- A Data-led Approach to India's Agri-Economy
>- Framework & Sustainability & Support for Open Data in India
>
> Here's the agenda (PDF)
> 
> .
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> You can register at https://opendataconclave.dreamcast.in/users/signup
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Re: [datameet] Re: Food Security data - Public Distribution System

[Prabhakar Rajagopal]

Nice PDS location data.

Is the PDS with location available as open data somewhere?

Prabhakar

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 6:55 PM Anubhav Aggarwal 
wrote:

> findmybank.gov.in has GIS of PDS stores.
>
> Also Jaano App
>
> On Friday, 17 April 2020 18:23:51 UTC+5:30, Prk wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anyone know of a source to find the food distribution done under PDS
>> - district wise location, amount distributed etc?
>>
>> Thank you
>> Regards,
>> Purnima
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Re: [datameet] State GIS Portals

[Prabhakar Rajagopal]

All running arcinfo

https://bharatmaps.gov.in/map.aspx
https://stategisportal.nic.in/stategisportal/Tamilnadu_BharatMaps/map.aspx

Prabhakar


On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 11:55 AM Prabhakar Rajagopal <
prabha.prabha...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, Part of the Bharat Maps NIC constellation.
> There is a spurt of such things. Now SOI also has a portal via DST Sahayog
> app... and they too have villages and census.
>
> https://bharatmaps.gov.in/
> https://indiamaps.gov.in/soiapp/
>
> Prabhakar
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 11:32 AM Sharad Lele 
> wrote:
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>> Found this website from where you can reach most of the state GIS portals:
>>
>> https://stategisportal.nic.in/stategisportal/
>>
>> The state portals appear to have a similar format, with some variations.
>> Nothing is downloadable (of course!).
>>
>> Sharad
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Re: [datameet] State GIS Portals

[Prabhakar Rajagopal]

Yes, Part of the Bharat Maps NIC constellation.
There is a spurt of such things. Now SOI also has a portal via DST Sahayog
app... and they too have villages and census.

https://bharatmaps.gov.in/
https://indiamaps.gov.in/soiapp/

Prabhakar



On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 11:32 AM Sharad Lele  wrote:

> Found this website from where you can reach most of the state GIS portals:
>
> https://stategisportal.nic.in/stategisportal/
>
> The state portals appear to have a similar format, with some variations.
> Nothing is downloadable (of course!).
>
> Sharad
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Re: [datameet] Re: BhuNaksha: source of cadastral maps

[Prabhakar Rajagopal]

Dear Sharad,

Have you looked at Bharatmaps...
They have all the census villages all marked up and much more.

https://bharatmaps.gov.in/map.aspx
They have all the SOI layers on the map as well.

Good to visualize.

Prabhakar


On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 11:16 AM Sharad Lele  wrote:

> More Information on Bhu Naksha initative is avaliable at:
>
> https://bhunaksha.nic.in/bhunaksha/implementationstatus.jsp
>
> (Thanks to Naveen Francis for sharing this link)
>
>
> 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
>>
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