Re: [datameet] Shapefiles for complete India

2014-08-10 Thread Arun Ganesh
Those interested in mapping the different types of boundaries can maybe help review how good these tagging guidelines on openstreetmap are: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India:Boundaries This will really help if an and when such data starts being imported into the project. On Sun, Aug 10,

Re: [datameet] Shapefiles for complete India

2014-08-10 Thread Dilip Damle
Hi Just came across this link that seems to have a village shapfile of India somewhere http://revolutionarygis.wordpress.com/2014/06/19/india-village-shapefile/ On Sunday, August 10, 2014 12:33:15 PM UTC+5:30, Arun Ganesh wrote: Those interested in mapping the different types of boundaries

[datameet] [delhi] datameet-up on august 27 - planning

2014-08-10 Thread sumandro
Dear Delhi DataMeet-niks, In our last DataMeet-Up, we decided http://datameet.org/2014/08/04/notes-datameet-up_delhi-31-july-2014/ to organise the next DataMeet-Up on Wednesday, August 27. It will be a 3-4 hour meeting beginning around 2:30-3:00 pm, and we will all work with datasets related

[datameet] India's Media -- Missing the Data Journalism Revolution?

2014-08-10 Thread Meera
What do you folks think? -Meera India’s Media — Missing the Data Journalism Revolution? How can media make sense of a country that has over 1.2 billion people (about 17 percent of the global population), close to 800 languages, an electorate of 814 million, and the largest urban

[datameet] View of the map data for the Deccan

2014-08-10 Thread Arun Ganesh
This might interest folks who are interested in the data quality and coverage in the openstreetmap project. Check this render of the highways, rivers, cities and towns made using the latest osm dump: