If people can share important datasets which can be shared with the
ministry of urban affairs, will write a formal letter and attach the links
of datasets to be published on their urban data exchange. This will ideally
be a start and we can become a partner within their exchange and send newer
Hi,
This is a very good initiative. I do research on smart cities. I have so
far published a number of research articles as given below. In case, if you
guys are interested to use the data and write together, I am available. I
am not sure whether this email is relevant to this group. But
The ministry is open to re-publish any data through their urban data
exchange, but can't publish them as official data through the smartcities
portal. They are open to collaborating with organizations and communities.
But formal letters need to be sent.
Regards,
Srinivas Kodali
On Mon, May 13,
The open data portal looks neat and the datasets are valuable.
The one challenge I see with the datasets is the lack of metadata and a
standard glossary for the data to be used effectively.
In addition the Data Maturity Assessment Framework is weak as majority of the
assessment is based on
This /looks/ really neat. Was going through some of the datasets and most
seem to have city ward or zone level granularity.
This will make the datameet municipal shapefiles much more relevant to use
with all this data https://github.com/datameet/Municipal_Spatial_Data .
Theres still over 70
The ministry of urban development has started an open data portal for
smartcities part of their new National urban innovation stack. They also
want to rank cities based on the data and there is paper on their strategy
for cities using data.
Smart cities open data portal
