[datameet] [Bangalore] Monthly working

2014-08-06 Thread Nisha Thompson
Hey Everyone, Based on some conversations at the last Bangalore Meet up it seems there is some interest in getting together to do some mini working sessions (hackathons) to get and clean data. Something like we did before the Bangalore Open Data Camp around PDFs and QGIS. 2 to 4 hours where

Re: [datameet] Census 2001 Tahsils Shapefile (5,461 records)

2014-08-06 Thread Justin Meyers
Sharad, I have worked with GADM over the years and know the pros and cons (it is one of the few global datasources that is somewhat consistent and free, however, there is NO documentation, NO support, NO updates, and is heavily generalized, etc). So I call it junk because there is

Re: [datameet] Re: Shapefiles for complete India

2014-08-06 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Sharad, I just download the GDAM data again, to confirm what you have said. I'm going to have to disagree with you about the quality of the IND_adm3 data. Acoording to the 2001 Census, there are 5454 Sub Districts in India http://www.socialjustice.nic.in/pdf/tab11.pdf. The GDAM dataset has

Re: [datameet] Census 2001 Tahsils Shapefile (5,461 records)

2014-08-06 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Justin, Sorry for not responding to your earlier mail about Orissa. I've been under a Tsunami of emails recently, and haven't completely caught up on all of them. I have been looking at the attributes of your dataset, and they look quite good. Even the Geometry is decent upto approximately a

Re: [datameet] Re: Shapefiles for complete India

2014-08-06 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
In Continuation of my previous email, here is a CSV file which shows just how bad the GDAM dataset is. Regards, Devdatta On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Devdatta Tengshe devda...@tengshe.in wrote: Hi Sharad, I just download the GDAM data again, to confirm what you have said. I'm going to