Re: [datameet] Re: Open Data in India: In a Restrictive Copyright Regime, Voluntary Organisations Pitch in to Make Data Accessible

2020-06-17 Thread Saba Mundlay
Hi, Alternatively, one could also use geo-referencing in QGIS to create spatial data from PDFs. Are the results you are getting with the python script faster / more accurate? Would love to see it :) On Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 6:20:45 PM UTC+5:30, Dilawar Singh wrote: > > Hi Thej, Datameet

Re: [datameet] Re: Open Data in India: In a Restrictive Copyright Regime, Voluntary Organisations Pitch in to Make Data Accessible

2020-06-16 Thread Dilawar Singh
Hi Thej, Datameet After reading this, I went to SOI site and tried downloading few maps. I could only find PDFs. And data.gov.in also love PDFs. I wrote a couple of scripts which I used to figure out boundaries and extract data from curves in old PDF paper. It's a tricky business but I had

Re: [datameet] Re: Open Data in India: In a Restrictive Copyright Regime, Voluntary Organisations Pitch in to Make Data Accessible

2020-06-16 Thread Natasha kalra
Hi all Is there any population-wise data available at one place for all the ULBs which participated in Swachh Bharat ranking 2019? Thanks in advance Natasha On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 8:49 AM Naveen Francis wrote: > Nice writeup Thej, > > SOI point of view is completely different >

[datameet] Re: Open Data in India: In a Restrictive Copyright Regime, Voluntary Organisations Pitch in to Make Data Accessible

2020-06-15 Thread Naveen Francis
Nice writeup Thej, SOI point of view is completely different https://youtu.be/o1qMZZOia3c?t=3174 'Don't take data, but starting using SOI services.' On Monday, 15 June 2020 11:11:43 UTC+5:30, Thejesh GN wrote: > > Team, > > I wrote a piece for EPW about the status of Open Data and How