[datameet] Re: LGD codes = Census 2011 codes?

2024-04-26 Thread Sharad Lele
Btw, the portal he mentioned was the "Gati Shakti" portal (that supposedly uses LGD codes) On Friday, April 26, 2024 at 4:19:15 PM UTC+5:30 Sharad Lele wrote: > Folks, today in a meeting at Ministry of Tribal Affairs, the Addl Secy > said that "the new portal for tracki

[datameet] LGD codes = Census 2011 codes?

2024-04-26 Thread Sharad Lele
Folks, today in a meeting at Ministry of Tribal Affairs, the Addl Secy said that "the new portal for tracking benefits to tribal villages is using LGD codes, and henceforth all other data should be linked to these codes" Now, I presume LGD=local govt directory codes. But when I look at data

Re: [datameet] Block Boundary

2024-03-04 Thread Sharad Lele
Arulalan: The .shp file is missing from this GitHub folder that you have shared. On Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at 2:58:57 AM UTC+5:30 Arulalan T wrote: > Hai, > > Please see it here > > https://github.com/India-Meteorological-Department/India-BlockLevel-SubDistricts-Shape-File > > On Tue, 27 Feb

[datameet] Re: Some Collections of Indian Data

2023-12-27 Thread Sharad Lele
Amazing work, Sreeram! Many many thanks ! Sharad On Tuesday, December 26, 2023 at 7:52:53 PM UTC+5:30 sreeram kandimalla wrote: > > Indian Administrative Boundaries: > https://github.com/ramSeraph/indian_admin_boundaries > > Indian Roads: > https://github.com/ramSeraph/indian_roads > > Indian

[datameet] Sorting Devanagari lists correctly in Excel

2023-12-20 Thread Sharad Lele
So if I have a list of village names entered in Devanagari font in an Excel column, and I try to sort that list, it does a 'sort of okay' job, but goofs up in at least one way: it puts अं before अ , so अंबिकापुर comes before अकोला , when in fact it should come afterwards. Has anyone

Re: [datameet] Creating variable names in Devanagari

2023-12-06 Thread Sharad Lele
ut reports that postGIS does not accept those variables. Any workarounds? Sharad On Tue, 5 Dec 2023, 17:28 Sharad Lele (शरच्चंद्र लेले), < sharad.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok, thanks, Nikhil. Let me see what works at our backend. > > Sharad > > On 05-Dec-23 16:51, Nikhil VJ wrote:

Re: [datameet] Creating variable names in Devanagari

2023-12-04 Thread Sharad Lele
t; > --- > Ujaval Gandhi > Spatial Thoughts > www.spatialthoughts.com > <https://mailtrack.io/link/43de97ab1302774e567fc413805c61bb36bd8af8?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spatialthoughts.com=8747767=904253fcbc9b4da4> > > > > On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 2:36 PM Sharad Lele wrote: &g

Re: [datameet] Creating variable names in Devanagari

2023-12-04 Thread Sharad Lele
] On Monday, December 4, 2023 at 1:57:04 PM UTC+5:30 Sharad Lele wrote: > Thanks, Dilawar. The article was very interesting/useful. But for a > simpleton like me, the question then is: How do I ensure that QGIS3 in > particular is using UTF-8 encoding every time? > > Sharad > >

Re: [datameet] Creating variable names in Devanagari

2023-12-04 Thread Sharad Lele
or web-based tools. > > Long answer: > https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/ > > best, >Dilawar > > > > On Mon, 04 Dec 2023 13:24:2

[datameet] Creating variable names in Devanagari

2023-12-03 Thread Sharad Lele
Hi folks, I am using QGIS and I want to create variable names in Devanagari (for instance जिला instead of District). If I create a new column in the attribute table and enter the column name in Devanagari using Microsoft Indic Language Tool on my computer, it seems to work (जिला is shown as the

Re: [datameet] Google Earth historical imagery disappeared?

2023-05-02 Thread Sharad Lele
alling the application once. > > Regards, > > On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 8:22 AM Sharad Lele wrote: > >> Folks, >> Over the last few days, it appears as if Google has removed all >> historical satellite imagery for India for the 2000-2019 period. Just last >> week, I

[datameet] Google Earth historical imagery disappeared?

2023-05-01 Thread Sharad Lele
Folks, Over the last few days, it appears as if Google has removed all historical satellite imagery for India for the 2000-2019 period. Just last week, I was using imagery from 2005 and 2003 for our field sites in MP and Chhattisgarh. But as of this weekend, there is NO historical imagery

Re: [datameet] Re: Looking for list of census village names for CG and MP in Devanagari

2023-02-03 Thread Sharad Lele
? On Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 10:32:59 AM UTC+5:30 Sharad Lele wrote: > Dear Nikhil, > > Thanks for your help and yes, I assumed (incorrectly) that if the menus > are in Hindi then the data will also be in Hindi/Devanagari! Unfortunately, > as you pointed, out, the data are still i

[datameet] Re: Looking for list of census village names for CG and MP in Devanagari

2023-02-02 Thread Sharad Lele
For instance, if someone can scrape the names from this website: https://www.prd.mp.gov.in/GramSearch/SearchPanchayat.aspx (sequentially, so as to get the district, block and GP tags also) On Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 9:47:01 PM UTC+5:30 Sharad Lele wrote: > I am looking for the cen

[datameet] Looking for list of census village names for CG and MP in Devanagari

2023-02-02 Thread Sharad Lele
I am looking for the census village list for Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh (for starters) in Devanagari (Hindi script). Preferably with Census 2011 codes, so that I can quickly match them to the Census dataset, which is in English. But even if no codes attached, an accurate list with

Re: [datameet] Re: Survey of India published - District, Block and Village Boundaries

2022-09-19 Thread Sharad Lele
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

[datameet] Maharashtra cadastral maps

2022-09-14 Thread Sharad Lele
Has anyone tried this website: http://mrsac.maharashtra.gov.in/cadastralgis/ It seems to require login and password. Can anyone get a login? If not, does anyone in this group have access? we are looking for some maps of Chandrapur district that are not available on Bhunaksha. Sharad --

[datameet] Re: can we get the cadastral shape files of karnataka state

2022-05-24 Thread Sharad Lele
Go to https://landrecords.karnataka.gov.in/ and click on "revenue maps" button , which is https://landrecords.karnataka.gov.in/service3/ Best, Sharad On Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 10:14:53 AM UTC+5:30 anil...@gmail.com wrote: > hello everyone, i am looking for cadastral boundary shapefiles

Re: [datameet] Shape files for Bhopal, Khandawa, Omkareshwar along with villages boundaries

2022-02-21 Thread Sharad Lele
Hi Akshit: I tried this link because I also want accurate village boundaries for MP. But the link does not work: first it does not accept even spaces between first name and last name etc. And finally when I had that figured out, clicking the submit button led to an error (crash) message. Have

Re: [datameet] State-->District-->Village level data

2022-01-12 Thread Sharad Lele
Thanks, KK. I checked this out. Apart from the fact that it is not downloadable, I find that the layer has many errors. Lots of generalization of boundaries and actual errors in locating villages... :-( Just sharing my observations for others to be aware of... Sharad On Thursday, January 13,

Re: [datameet] State-->District-->Village level data

2021-10-07 Thread Sharad Lele
Go to https://mpbhulekh.gov.in/mpbhulekh.do and choose 'land parcel map' from the dashboard on the home page (have to scroll to right). MP used to have a Bhunaksha portal like other states, but they seem to have purposely disabled it! On Wednesday, October 6, 2021 at 8:03:28 AM UTC+5:30

[datameet] Re: Pune Villages Map

2021-07-28 Thread Sharad Lele
Rather: https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~pocra/MahaCensus_shapefile_data1.2/MaharashtraCensus.html On Wednesday, July 28, 2021 at 12:00:06 PM UTC+5:30 Sharad Lele wrote: > Check out: > > > https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~pocra/MahaCensus_shapefile_data1.2/Attribute.html > > On Wednes

[datameet] Re: Pune Villages Map

2021-07-28 Thread Sharad Lele
Check out: https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~pocra/MahaCensus_shapefile_data1.2/Attribute.html On Wednesday, July 28, 2021 at 2:14:20 AM UTC+5:30 rushikesh...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, does anyone have pune villages shapefile or maharashtra villages > shapefiles ? > > -- Datameet is a community of

Re: [datameet] Re: Downloading Survey of India topos (Open Series)

2021-06-29 Thread Sharad Lele
roblem. > but otherwise the process is a little simpler than earlier. Now they only > require your mobile no. > > With regards > Upasana > > On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 at 07:56, Sharad Lele wrote: > >> Hi folks, no help from anyone on this? >> Has anyone tried registering re

Re: [datameet] Re: global 10 m landuse data

2021-06-25 Thread Sharad Lele
, 2021 at 11:29:50 AM UTC+5:30 Sharad Lele wrote: > Works! Thanks, Justin! > > Sharad > > On 25-Jun-21 08:15, J M wrote: > > Shared, > Let me know if this works! > > https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=d6642f8a4f6d4685a24ae2dc0c73d4ac > > Justin > >

Re: [datameet] Re: Downloading Survey of India topos (Open Series)

2021-06-24 Thread Sharad Lele
Regards, > Sudhira. > > On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 at 07:56, Sharad Lele wrote: > >> Hi folks, no help from anyone on this? >> Has anyone tried registering recently? >> https://soinakshe.uk.gov.in/mtr/Manchitra_MTR.aspx >> >> On Friday, May 21, 2021 at 8:20:44 AM UTC+5:

[datameet] Re: Downloading Survey of India topos (Open Series)

2021-06-24 Thread Sharad Lele
Hi folks, no help from anyone on this? Has anyone tried registering recently? https://soinakshe.uk.gov.in/mtr/Manchitra_MTR.aspx On Friday, May 21, 2021 at 8:20:44 AM UTC+5:30 Sharad Lele wrote: > I thought SOI had put out topos for all of India in the Open Series for > public do

[datameet] Re: global 10 m landuse data

2021-06-24 Thread Sharad Lele
Hi Justin, Thanks for this. I downloaded a tile, but could not find the legend information anywhere. Please advise. Sharad On Thursday, June 24, 2021 at 11:38:42 PM UTC+5:30 Justin wrote: > On Thursday, June 24, 2021 at 2:08:19 PM UTC-4 Justin wrote: > >> revolutionarygis.wordpress.com >> > --

[datameet] Downloading Survey of India topos (Open Series)

2021-05-20 Thread Sharad Lele
I thought SOI had put out topos for all of India in the Open Series for public download. But when I visit this page: https://surveyofindia.gov.in/pages/open-series-maps-osm I find many states are missing in the list: Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand, etc. And when I visit the download page

Re: [datameet] Historic village-level census data

2021-05-18 Thread Sharad Lele
Following Sanjeev Sinha's point: the scanned district census handbooks for older censuses can be found here: http://lsi.gov.in:8081/jspui/handle/123456789/1 The collection is not comprehensive, but ... On Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at 7:03:51 AM UTC+5:30 Nishadh K A wrote: > For years 1991 and

Re: [datameet] Chhattisgarh Forest Working Plans and maps are online!

2021-01-26 Thread Sharad Lele
wrote: > Hi Every one > > Can any one share casestal maps (Khasara maps of Madhya Pradesh) > > with regards > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:10 PM Sharad Lele (शरच्चंद्र लेले) < > shara...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> http://www.fmisonline.org/Forest%20Working%2

[datameet] Re: Census land use categories 2011 vs 2001

2021-01-11 Thread Sharad Lele
shrubs* *and jungles which are not put to any use.* Now what does one make of this? Sharad On Monday, January 11, 2021 at 8:09:18 PM UTC+5:30 Sharad Lele wrote: > Dear All, > As you know, Census Village Amenities Tables (now called Village > Directories) contain a huge amount of data on vari

[datameet] Census land use categories 2011 vs 2001

2021-01-11 Thread Sharad Lele
Dear All, As you know, Census Village Amenities Tables (now called Village Directories) contain a huge amount of data on various attributes of villages. Of particular interest to me is the last set of columns, which are about land use in the village. Till Census 2001, there used to be a

Re: [datameet] DOS release Remote Sensing Policy 2020 draft for public comment

2020-11-27 Thread Sharad Lele
in the drafting of the joint comment. Sharad On Saturday, November 28, 2020 at 12:37:17 PM UTC+5:30 Sharad Lele wrote: > Rajya Sabha TV just now called saying the programme got cancelled. Typical > of them. > > On Friday, November 27, 2020 at 10:15:42 PM UTC+5:30 Sharad Lele wrote:

Re: [datameet] DOS release Remote Sensing Policy 2020 draft for public comment

2020-11-27 Thread Sharad Lele
Rajya Sabha TV just now called saying the programme got cancelled. Typical of them. On Friday, November 27, 2020 at 10:15:42 PM UTC+5:30 Sharad Lele wrote: > Btw, I will be appearing on Rajya Sabha TV tomorrow at 1pm with MoES Secy > for a panel discussion on this new policy. So d

Re: [datameet] DOS release Remote Sensing Policy 2020 draft for public comment

2020-11-27 Thread Sharad Lele
Btw, I will be appearing on Rajya Sabha TV tomorrow at 1pm with MoES Secy for a panel discussion on this new policy. So do send in more comments tonight/tomorrow morning, AND listen in on that discussion. On Friday, November 27, 2020 at 10:14:16 PM UTC+5:30 Sharad Lele wrote: > I ag

Re: [datameet] DOS release Remote Sensing Policy 2020 draft for public comment

2020-11-27 Thread Sharad Lele
ge: > Twitter icon] <https://twitter.com/spatialthoughts> > > > > On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 7:33 PM Thejesh GN wrote: > >> Thank you for sharing. We should send out comments as community. >> Thej >> -- >> Thejesh GN *⏚* ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ >>

[datameet] Older Census handbooks

2020-08-09 Thread Sharad Lele
Folks, till recently, I used to access older Census Handbooks (1981, 1991 and even earlier) from this link: lsi.gov.in:8081/jspui/handle/123456789/1 Now this link has stopped working. Any suggestions? Alternate links? Corrections? Thanks. Sharad -- Datameet is a community of Data Science

Re: [datameet] Re: Map Digitalization Effort

2020-07-08 Thread Sharad Lele
Requesting Rohith to move this conversation to a new thread with its own accurate subject header, not keep it under "Map digitization effort" On Wednesday, July 8, 2020 at 8:10:03 PM UTC+5:30, TEJ CHAVDA wrote: > > can u give me a geo-reference map Boundary Or map or something I'll > digitize

Re: [datameet] mumbai district boundary

2020-07-08 Thread Sharad Lele
All national, state, district, & taluka boundaries for India are available on the GADM website. https://gadm.org/download_country_v3.html Here is the district layer (from my G-drive): https://tinyurl.com/y8mzhj66 Hope this helps. Sharad On Wednesday, July 8, 2020 at 8:09:57 PM UTC+5:30,

[datameet] KMLs of 41 coal mining blocks up for privatization

2020-07-01 Thread Sharad Lele
Does anyone have the KMLs of these 41 coal mining blocks opened up for privatization? I see that https://mangomap.com/olivecreative/maps/45303/india-s-coal-mines-and-forests# has the maps. But cannot download any data or see which is which block. Can anyone help with more detail? Sharad --

[datameet] Re: 2001 village and town boundaries

2020-05-31 Thread Sharad Lele
Dear Mark, Happy to know about your interest. I am also quite interested in these issues, having worked on 1991, 2001 and 2011 census datasets and their spatial representation (at least for Karnataka and some other states). There are many issues, both with the census datasets themselves and

[datameet] yadagiri dsitrict LULC maps

2020-05-18 Thread Sharad Lele
Shapefiles are difficult to come by. Bhuvan WMS service gives reasonable map for viewing... -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[datameet] Re: BhuNaksha: source of cadastral maps

2020-04-25 Thread Sharad Lele
taluka? Sharad 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

[datameet] Re: Taluka level maps data

2020-04-18 Thread Sharad Lele
Also check out: https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/ On Saturday, 18 April 2020 07:43:25 UTC+5:30, Naveen Francis wrote: > > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Subdistricts_in_India > > On Friday, 17 April 2020 21:55:53 UTC+5:30, Mitul Jhaveri wrote: >> >> Folks, >> >> Would anyone of you have

[datameet] State GIS Portals

2020-04-16 Thread Sharad Lele
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 -- Datameet is a community of Data Science

[datameet] Re: Need Block Level Map of Bihar

2020-02-20 Thread Sharad Lele
Manish, please clarify: ward level for which town/city? There is nothing like a ward-level file for the whole state... On Tuesday, 18 February 2020 18:04:05 UTC+5:30, Sirod Kumar MANISH wrote: > > Hi sandeep , > > i also need shape file of bihar at ward level. Please help me > > On Friday,

[datameet] Chhattisgarh village layers online (webportal)

2020-02-20 Thread Sharad Lele
Just sharing that, just like the Maharashtra GIS portal (http://mrsac.maharashtra.gov.in/geoportal/), a portal for Chhattisgarh seems to be up and running https://stategisportal.nic.in/stategisportal/Chhatisgarh_BharatMaps/map.aspx It is way more clunky than the MRSAC one (don't know how CG

[datameet] Re: BhuNaksha: source of cadastral maps

2019-12-13 Thread Sharad Lele
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 cadas

[datameet] BhuNaksha: source of cadastral maps

2019-12-13 Thread Sharad Lele
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:

Re: [datameet] Re: India Shape Files

2019-08-09 Thread Sharad Lele
>> take more than a few seconds and you need to start over. Since WFS export >>>> is disabled, you can use the GeoRSS option to download the shape. >>>> >>>> The one issue is that the attributes are encoded as an html string and >>>> need

Re: [datameet] Re: Correct CRS for datameet maps

2019-04-18 Thread Sharad Lele
Devdatta's summary was short and sweet, and practical. To add to it: 1. The NNRMS CRS suggested seems to be in Lambert Conformal Conic projection (with WGS84 ellipsoid and datum). An alternative to it is the UTM projection system, which keeps longitudes parallel, and gives reasonably accurate

Re: [datameet] Cauvery River Map Data

2019-02-10 Thread Sharad Lele
Hi Thejesh: Correct me if I am wrong: This seems to be a map only of the river course itself. Not a map of the basic boundaries? The latter would be very useful too. Sharad On Sunday, February 10, 2019 at 1:42:32 PM UTC+5:30, Thejesh GN wrote: > > Noted. > > May be i will do an how-to post. >

[datameet] Re: Sharing : Census 1991 _Village/Town Level PCA Data

2018-10-30 Thread Sharad Lele
We have been able to convert the SAS files for 1981 district data from Vannemann into csv files using R. I have posted them here. But cannot make out the format, because it seems quite complicated. You may have to refer to the codebook on the website. Also there may be errors in data

Re: [datameet] Re: India Shape Files

2018-10-29 Thread Sharad Lele
r. Since WFS export >>> is disabled, you can use the GeoRSS option to download the shape. >>> >>> The one issue is that the attributes are encoded as an html string and >>> needs to be parsed out. Nikhil has a great python script to do this: >>> https://

[datameet] Re: Official Survey Of India - India Boundary

2018-10-27 Thread Sharad Lele
Sorry, I should have clarified: the red boundary is SOI official release, the black one is GADM. On Saturday, 27 October 2018 16:25:18 UTC+5:30, Sharad Lele wrote: > > I tried to check quality of geo-rectification of these new SOI publicly > release boundaries. Seems like they fit Goo

Re: [datameet] Re: GIS Ward Maps for Hyderabad, Kolkata and Ahmedabad

2018-09-25 Thread Sharad Lele
Dilip, I was going to ask you earlier: what is the difference between Census Wards and Municipal Wards? My understanding is that the wards are always the same, only Census Enumeration BLOCKS are unique to Census operations. They are tiny portions of each ward. Sharad On Friday, July 7, 2017

Re: [datameet] Re: GIS Ward Maps for Hyderabad, Kolkata and Ahmedabad

2018-09-25 Thread Sharad Lele
May I request everyone who has ward boundaries to please upload them to the Github repository that Thejesh has created and repeatedly shared links for? That way, we don't have to keep making these individual requests, and the whole community has access to these datasets at any future point

[datameet] Re: Madhya Pradesh- Village and Taluka boundary Shape File

2018-04-17 Thread Sharad Lele
Nobody seems to yet have access to the 2011 census village boundaries layer for MP. Sharad On Monday, April 16, 2018 at 7:12:31 PM UTC+5:30, keerthi KB wrote: > > I saw that several states data is already available in the 2018 India > Village GIS Data project and >

[datameet] Re: Updated Taluk Shapefile!!

2018-03-07 Thread Sharad Lele
I am wondering if Hubli-Dharwad MCorp can be considered as a separate taluka. Even Bengaluru MCorp is divided across two taluka (Bangalore south and Bangalore North). H-D needs to show up as polygons when one goes to a village boundary map... Sharad On Tuesday, June 20, 2017 at 6:57:23 PM

Re: [datameet] Village boundaries map for Odisha

2017-12-31 Thread Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]
mix Good Quality and Bad quality then the end result is bad quality and not average quality. We need to realise that. On Thursday, 28 December 2017 12:30:40 UTC+5:30, Sharad Lele wrote: Dear Ananya: It is possible to match the 2001 code with 2011 codes using the lookup tables

Re: [datameet] Village boundaries map for Odisha

2017-12-27 Thread Sharad Lele
Dear Ananya: Thanks for sharing this. A quick check indicates that this shapefile is for 2001 census. The field "vid" corresponds to the Census 2001 village code (extended code including state, district, block and village code). Not sure whether the village boundaries match 2001 boundaries,

Re: [datameet] hierarchical & complete ward data of Bangalore

2017-08-31 Thread Sharad Lele
Sorry, Christopher. Do you mean a ward boundary shapefile? Check this repository, maintained by Thejesh: https://github.com/datameet/Municipal_Spatial_Data Sharad On Thursday, 31 August 2017 19:02:20 UTC+5:30, Christopher Bulkley-Logston wrote: > > Hi, are there any updates on this

Re: [datameet] Re: Census codes 2001 and 2011

2017-07-14 Thread Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]
Dear Dilip: Just to add to my public message: I had independently purchased the code-conversion tables (2001 to 2011) from Census. And have given a copy to Thejesh to upload to github. So it should be up there soon, in case the ones sent by Mishra don't work for some reason (they are

[datameet] Re: Census codes 2001 and 2011

2017-07-11 Thread Sharad Lele
Folks, Sumit Mishra had posted this earlier: Justin/Sharad, Please follow this link to get the files (both in Stata format named - rdir/udir). https://www.dropbox.com/sh/t7d3sy9sage8hoz/AABogZUrrWj-6uyFFy2T8mcna?dl=0 Use this dataset with caution. I had only worked on a subset of this-

[datameet] Re: GIS analysis

2017-03-23 Thread Sharad Lele
@Nagesh: I strongly endorse Dilip's warning. And I would add another question: One needs to be clear what one is trying to find out (question comes before tool) and whether the answer is already approximately known before hitting it with a tool that has all the limitations Dilip mentions. So

[datameet] Re: India Village Boundaries for all states

2017-02-20 Thread Sharad Lele
As far as I can see: a) the maps only show state, district and taluka boundaries, no village boundaries b) the maps are not downloadable. Others please comment. On Monday, February 20, 2017 at 6:51:10 PM UTC+5:30, RISHABH JAIN wrote: > > This website http://censusgis.org/india/ has census

Re: [datameet] Re: India 2001 census data village-wise

2016-11-29 Thread Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]
I wanted data for UP, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Bihar, MP and Chhattisgarh. It would be very helpful, if you have them and can share them with me Thanks Mukesh On Thursday, November 24, 2016 at 12:59:16 AM UTC-5, Sharad Lele wrote: Depend

Re: [datameet] Re: India 2001 census data village-wise

2016-11-27 Thread Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]
, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Bihar, MP and Chhattisgarh. It would be very helpful, if you have them and can share them with me Thanks Mukesh On Thursday, November 24, 2016 at 12:59:16 AM UTC-5, Sharad Lele wrote: Depends upon which state you want them for. Many of us purchased the 2001 datasets

Re: [datameet] Re: India 2001 census data village-wise

2016-11-27 Thread Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]
Ph: 011-27601283, Mob: 9810043240 Sharad On 28-11-2016 08:23, mukesh ray wrote: Thank you Sharad On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 9:47 PM, "Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]" <sharad.l...@gmail.com <mailto:sharad.l...@gmail.com>> wrote: Mukesh: I have 2001 data only

Re: [datameet] Re: India 2001 census data village-wise

2016-11-27 Thread Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]
, Bihar, MP and Chhattisgarh. It would be very helpful, if you have them and can share them with me Thanks Mukesh On Thursday, November 24, 2016 at 12:59:16 AM UTC-5, Sharad Lele wrote: Depends upon which state you want them for. Many of us purchased the 2001 datasets at some point, and I

Re: [datameet] Statewise Administrative atlases 2011 are now online

2016-11-19 Thread Sharad Lele
19, 2016 at 10:58:24 AM UTC+5:30, Meera wrote: > > Thanks Sharad .. > > Do you know of any other source that would also give ward boundaries ? > > Meera > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 19-Nov-2016, at 06:05, Sharad Lele <shara...@gmail.com > > wrote: &g

Re: [datameet] Statewise Administrative atlases 2011 are now online

2016-11-18 Thread Sharad Lele
Yes, but just the boundary, not wards inside the towns/cities. Also note that for some funny reason quality of the maps (i.e., fuzziness/sharpness) seems to vary from state to state. MP has posted its atlases on its own website (http://censusmp.nic.in/censusmp/atlas02-09-13.html) and these are

[datameet] Statewise Administrative atlases 2011 are now online

2016-11-16 Thread Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]
http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/maps/atlas/administrative_atlas.html They contain maps and lists for each taluka, with the maps showing village boundaries. This at least enables us to understand where a village listed in the census 2011 PCA or DCHB tables is actually located. --

[datameet] National Library of India

2016-11-16 Thread Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]
Does anyone have access to this? Seems to contain a lot of material. http://opac.nationallibrary.gov.in/cgi-bin/gw/chameleon E.g. it lists latest Administrative Atlases (2011 census) which will give latest village boundaries (in pdf form, of course) Call No GP 312(54) In2 [2011]

Re: [datameet] Fwd: Fwd: [New post] Happy Independence Day and Open Indian Village Boundaries

2016-08-25 Thread Sharad Lele
t;> >>>>>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Arun Ganesh <arung...@gmail.com> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Thej, if it helps, the OSM wiki probably has the most comprehensive >>>>>>> document

[datameet] Fwd: Fwd: [New post] Happy Independence Day and Open Indian Village Boundaries

2016-08-15 Thread Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]
For some reason, this email by Thejesh did not show up datameet (or maybe I just missed it?). So forwarding it to the group. Thejesh, thanks for this. I have two queries: 1. Is this effort different from the effort by Nisha? My impression was that we had (with the group) access to boundaries

Re: [datameet] India Village Shapefile Data

2016-07-08 Thread Sharad Lele
Hi folks, I believe Nisha Thompson and Thejesh were trying to figure out the legal dimensions related to posting these boundaries on our group. Maybe Nisha can give us an update on where things stand? Sharad On Friday, July 8, 2016 at 11:38:44 AM UTC+5:30, Devdatta Tengshe wrote: > > Hey

[datameet] Re: India Shape Files

2016-06-13 Thread Sharad Lele
Looks like a webGIS platform created by Gujarat State Remote Sensing Agency called BISAG. It would be wonderful if one could get access to the village layer, especially for Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, etc. It is visible, but as usually, tightly protected. Sharad On Monday, June 13, 2016 at

Re: [datameet] Re: Quick help -- Bangalore shape files

2016-04-11 Thread Sharad Lele
Pavan: Please also see this thread: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/datameet/dBNmEToJ5CI/OOQ0hLbcS1MJ Sharad On Monday, April 11, 2016 at 11:29:08 PM UTC+5:30, Pavan Srinath wrote: > > Thanks Dilip! > > Justin - please share your files too. > On 11 Apr 2016 23:15, "Dilip Damle"

Re: [datameet] digitizing maps update

2016-04-08 Thread Sharad Lele
Could not find anything at that website, Arun! Surprise, surprise! On Friday, April 8, 2016 at 11:20:39 PM UTC+5:30, Arun Ganesh wrote: > > I got an optimistically vague response that the shapefiles can be accessed > at http://www.mhupa.gov.in/ > > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- Datameet is a community of

Re: [datameet] Re: New Sentinel-2 Imagery Free For All!!!

2016-01-27 Thread Sharad Lele
Justin, We are trying to generate a built-up area map for two river sub-basins in southern India. What year is your builtup area map for? How have you validated the mapping? Sharad -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting

Re: [datameet] Re: Map Digitalization Effort

2016-01-18 Thread Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]
Polylines in Autocad (because of Islands and enclaves) 379 Taluka Polylines 20128 Village polylines 15804 Text names 16137 Markers manly the Village dot. On Monday, January 18, 2016 at 12:41:51 AM UTC+5:30, Sharad Lele wrote: Dilip: before you put in more effort, could you pause

Re: [datameet] Re: Map Digitalization Effort

2016-01-16 Thread Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]
I am hoping to lay my hands on old (1991) village boundary layer maps for many states. We should probably focus our energies on Town Ward boundary maps--these are the hardest to get. Copyright: I would not worry about this---this has to be public information... On 16-01-2016 18:35, Dilip

[datameet] Re: Map Digitalization Effort

2015-12-20 Thread Sharad Lele
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

Re: [datameet] Census Ward Boundaries for Metro Cities

2015-12-15 Thread Sharad Lele
Mahroof: We followed up on this pricelist. Turns out it is bogus: they are refusing to give any map using that pricelist, saying that maps don't exist, that list is out of date, etc etc. But I like Nisha's basic idea: we get hold of the pdfs as and when we can, and digitize and put them in

Re: [datameet] Re: Census of India seems to have maps of everything!

2015-11-27 Thread Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]
Director who is supposed to be good, maybe write to him directly. Also, suggest you try to contact the commissioner of Ramanagara. We had no trouble getting the files for Hubli-Dharwad, thanks to a pro-active commissioner. S On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 5:14 PM, "Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र

Re: [datameet] Re: Census of India seems to have maps of everything!

2015-11-25 Thread Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]
Thanks, Vinoth. Do keep up posted on what happens! Will circulate information about your startup, which sounds interesting! Sharad On 25-11-2015 16:11, Vinoth R wrote: Not sure if anyone has filed RTI. I filed an RTI with census department today. Between my startup helps citizens to file

Re: [datameet] Re: Census of India seems to have maps of everything!

2015-10-30 Thread Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]
Here is an update from my colleague who tried to get these maps: /I called Delhi folks. Apparently, town with ward boundary maps are not available for public dissemination at the moment for any state. He asked me to purchase the state map book (which is available online) for the all the maps

Re: [datameet] Re: Census of India seems to have maps of everything!

2015-10-28 Thread Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]
t data is soon going to be made available). But if it already existed, they wouldn't have needed to. On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:57 AM, "Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]" <sharad.l...@gmail.com <mailto:sharad.l...@gmail.com>> wrote: Dear Nishadh; Many thanks for poi

Re: [datameet] Re: Census of India seems to have maps of everything!

2015-10-28 Thread Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]
-- Thejesh GN *⏚* ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ http://thejeshgn.com GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 On 28 October 2015 at 07:57, "Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]" <sharad.l...@gmail.com <mailto:sharad.l...@gmail.com>> wrote: Dear Nishadh; Many thanks for pointing us to this link, where the 2011

Re: [datameet] Re: Census of India seems to have maps of everything!

2015-10-27 Thread Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]
Dear Nishadh; Many thanks for pointing us to this link, where the 2011 pdf maps have now been uploaded. 1. I could not find any urban ward-level boundaries in the pdf. I only see taluk-wise or tehsil-wise maps in which village boundaries are shown, and also the urban area is marked as a

Re: [datameet] Re: Census of India seems to have maps of everything!

2015-10-03 Thread Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]
, Oct 3, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Sharad Lele <sharad.l...@gmail.com <mailto:sharad.l...@gmail.com>> wrote: I have had no luck so far. Census Delhi office flatly denied the existence of any such maps, when we tried to follow up with them! On Saturday, 3 October 2015 11:07

[datameet] Re: Census of India seems to have maps of everything!

2015-10-03 Thread Sharad Lele
I have had no luck so far. Census Delhi office flatly denied the existence of any such maps, when we tried to follow up with them! On Saturday, 3 October 2015 11:07:12 UTC+5:30, Sudheendra Hangal wrote: > > I would also like ward boundaries, esp. within Karnataka. > Any ideas ? > -- Datameet

[datameet] Re: Regarding Village Level location cordinates

2015-09-13 Thread Sharad Lele
Hi Mohit: Thought I will mention that 2011 village amenities tables have now be posted by Census of India: http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/DCHB.html While the village boundary maps are still not included in the pdf, the village list and the new sub-district names for all

Re: [datameet] Re: Shapefiles for complete India

2015-04-14 Thread Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]
, lease, license, or rent data set.. its such a shame that on one hand PM/govt is talking about open data and on other there is a thick bureaucratic red tape. Cheers * **| Dipal Thakker* On 14 April 2015 at 10:41, Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले] sharad.l...@gmail.com mailto:sharad.l...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [datameet] Re: Shapefiles for complete India

2015-04-14 Thread Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले] sharad.l...@gmail.com mailto:sharad.l...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Dipal: http://biogeo.ucdavis.edu/data/gadm2/shp/IND_adm.zip This is the link for GADM boundaries for india. Sharad On 14-Apr-15 11:10 AM, Dipal

Re: [datameet] Re: India 2001 census data village-wise

2014-12-16 Thread Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]
No problem at all. There is no hurry on this whatsoever. I should mention that I already have purchased CDs for 2001 data for several states where I do my research. Sharad On 17-Dec-14 9:18 AM, Rick Morgan wrote: Here. Is the code. If you want the *.html and JSON data you can scrape it

Re: [datameet] Re: 2011 subdistrict Maps

2014-10-13 Thread Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]
, Khaliq Parkar khaliq.par...@gmail.com mailto:khaliq.par...@gmail.com wrote: Ah! let me tap my 'institutional' access to see what is possible. will update soon. On 10/12/14, Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले] sharad.l...@gmail.com mailto:sharad.l...@gmail.com wrote: Khaliq

Re: [datameet] Re: 2011 subdistrict Maps

2014-10-12 Thread Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]
Institutional purchase is viable considering the cost. On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 11:18 PM, Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले] sharad.l...@gmail.com mailto:sharad.l...@gmail.com wrote: Khaliq: When you say they 'sell it', i presume you are referring to the location codes created in each census

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