Re: [datameet] Other side of the Line of Control

2019-11-06 Thread Peter Mayer
Thanks Devdatta, I think I'm missing something...! I'm using _State_ polygons and don't see a POK polygon--which is just what I need. I'll see how I go with the SoI link. P. On Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 4:08:20 PM UTC+10:30, Devdatta Tengshe wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > If you need the

Re: [datameet] Other side of the Line of Control

2019-11-06 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Peter, If you need the official boundaries, then you can use the Survey of India's Country/State Boundary from here: https://github.com/datameet/maps/tree/master/Survey-of-India-Index-Maps (As an Aside, if you are currently using the 2011 District boundaries, you should not face a problem,

[datameet] Other side of the Line of Control

2019-11-06 Thread Peter Mayer
Hi, I've been using Devadatta's shape file for 2011 (https://github.com/devdattaT Thanks Devadatta!!) with Census data. When I submitted a paper with some of these maps, I was chastised by one reviewer because I didn't show the official national borders. It's easy to put in missing data...but

Re: [datameet] Shapefile with protected areas of India

2019-11-06 Thread javier gonzalez
Thanks Arun. Even though I knew the datasets, I didnt know the WFS links. They are awesome. Well, in my opition after analyzing several sources and gazette notifications for India: WPAD (protected planet): useless OSM: not so good and consistent ENVIS: good for some areas but not existent,

Re: [datameet] Shapefile with protected areas of India

2019-11-06 Thread Arun Ganesh
Few more resources if you have QGIS and connect to these WFS Servers: - ENVIS server has protected areas layer with 609 features. This seems like the official data source to use. http://210.212.84.122:80/erdas-apollo/vector/WII_GEOGRAPHIC_DATA - india Biodiversity Portal seem to have a layer with

[datameet] Bengali OCR not working properly

2019-11-06 Thread Shubham Agrahari
I am trying to convert bengali pdf to text . I am using tessaract 4.0.0 for it . I have also downloaded the "ben traindata" from here --> https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/blob/master/ben.traineddata but it is not working properly. It is not getting converted to text properly. Any

Re: [datameet] Shapefile with protected areas of India

2019-11-06 Thread Arun Ganesh
Just found the mapping coverage page on the OSM wiki and it looks like most national parks and sanctuaries have been mapped https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India/Protected_areas -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting

Re: [datameet] Shapefile with protected areas of India

2019-11-06 Thread Arun Ganesh
> > Hi Javier, there are a lot of protected areas that were mapped on OpenStreetMap recently and maybe quite useful. Have made a query that extracts this and gives over 500+ national parks and sanctuaries: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/NPW Since the query is by bbox, you might have to manually