Re: [datameet] Re: 2001 village and town boundaries

2020-05-31 Thread शरच्चंद्र लेले
Dear Digvijay: Thanks for this information. I did not know about the censusgis.org portal. It seems to have boundaries for areas where I have otherwise drawn a blank. BUT it is really hard to use this portal for anything other than to 'see' approximately what is going on. Pity. Do you know wh

Re: [datameet] Re: 2001 village and town boundaries

2020-05-31 Thread Mark Montgomery
Many thanks to Digvijay and Sharad, and I hope to continue sharing ideas and data with you. I'm excited to hear about the census gis site and the availability of integrated files for Maharashtra; I did not know about either resource. One issue that I am concerned about is whether it will be po

Re: [datameet] 2001 village and town boundaries

2020-05-31 Thread Cara Foss Arellano
Dear Mark, Super interesting project! May I schedule a brief call with you sometime this week? -Cara Foss Arellano On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 12:39 Mark Montgomery < mark.montgom...@stonybrook.edu> wrote: > Let me introduce myself to the group in this way: I am an Economics > professor at Stony Br

Re: [datameet] Re: BhuNaksha: source of cadastral maps

2020-05-31 Thread Dilawar Singh
The updated script is available publicly on Gitlab https://gitlab.com/snippets/1982028 . It has to be tweaked for different states. best, Dilawar On Monday, April 27, 2020 at 12:16:25 AM UTC+5:30, Dilawar Singh wrote: > > Hello Sharad > > Here you go: https://gitlab.com/dilawar/bhunaksha/

Re: [datameet] Re: 2001 village and town boundaries

2020-05-31 Thread Digvijay Bendrikar Shinde
Hello Prof Mark, Thank you for the resource. Have you seen the India GIS portal? http://www.censusgis.org/india/ it has the census data of 2001 and 2011 integrated with (up to) Village level shapefiles. you can make basic spatial viz using this. But files can not be downloaded. Also, CSE departm

[datameet] Re: 2001 village and town boundaries

2020-05-31 Thread Sharad Lele
Dear Mark, Happy to know about your interest. I am also quite interested in these issues, having worked on 1991, 2001 and 2011 census datasets and their spatial representation (at least for Karnataka and some other states). There are many issues, both with the census datasets themselves and with