Speaking of data.gov.in, any idea of the rationale behind asking you for
the "purpose" of getting the data before downloading it? Doesn't it make
the data less open if you need to go through a statement-of-purpose loop?
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Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know
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
Dear all,
A few members of the Datameet Delhi community are meeting this coming
Saturday morning in Shahpur Jat. We will be discussing plans and ideas for
setting up an open data catalog specifically for the development sector. If
you are interested in this conversation, please do join us.
