Re: [datameet] Re: Looking for KML file of India's parliamentary constituencies, need it urgently!

2014-04-28 Thread Srinivasan Ramani
Best thing to do is to open the shape files in QGIs.. Simplify geometries a bit and then convert to kml. The datameet version is very good and therefore very bulky and doesn't translate too well for web purposes. On 28 Apr 2014 11:16, Ravi Bajpai bajpair...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, so I converted

Re: [datameet] Re: Looking for KML file of India's parliamentary constituencies, need it urgently!

2014-04-28 Thread Thejesh GN
Ravi, It generates a KML of 35MB which is huge for the web apps. Google maps/API has limitation wrt to the size of KML https://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/mapsSupport -- But it works on leaftlet using

Re: [datameet] Re: Looking for KML file of India's parliamentary constituencies, need it urgently!

2014-04-28 Thread Raphael Susewind
Ravi, alternatively you might want to try mapbox.com tilemill / tilestream to render the files once, and then serve tiles only... Best, Raphael On 28.04.2014 10:48, Thejesh GN wrote: Ravi, It generates a KML of 35MB which is huge for the web apps. Google maps/API has limitation wrt to the

[datameet] Re: Looking for KML file of India's parliamentary constituencies, need it urgently!

2014-04-27 Thread Ravi Bajpai
Hi, Thanks a ton for this guys! This is really helpful, grateful. Best, Ravi On Sunday, April 27, 2014 7:20:28 PM UTC+5:30, Ravi Bajpai wrote: Hey all, I work for Hindustan Times here in Delhi. I am trying to prepare backend logistics to build an interactive map to be published on our

Re: [datameet] Re: Looking for KML file of India's parliamentary constituencies, need it urgently!

2014-04-27 Thread Anant Maringanti
Wow, that whole exchange was so smooth and streamlined. Somebody should do a couple of interviews and write a short piece on how Datameet has emerged as the most amazing single window solution for dataneeds. :) anant On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Ravi Bajpai bajpair...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,

[datameet] Re: Looking for KML file of India's parliamentary constituencies, need it urgently!

2014-04-27 Thread Ravi Bajpai
Ok, so I converted the .shp file to .kml. Fusion Tables refused to parse the file. So then I uploaded the ,kml file on Google Drive. When I open it on Google Maps from there, the application says it encountered problem with some data, and doesn't show anything on the map. Please help! Best,