Connecting Prof Jitendra Shah from GISE Lab of CSE IIT Bombay. He may like to discuss this with you.
About RIDDHI foundation, it's an organisation based in Kolkata. They work in GIS technologies to support social projects. Regards Digvijay On Mon, Jun 1, 2020, 9:42 AM Sharad Lele (शरच्चंद्र लेले) < sharad.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 who RIDDHI is? > It appears to have been authorised by Census of India to put this up. > > You may also notice that the IITB maps are *different* from the Census > maps. They appear to come from the MRSAC maps that are present on the MRSAC > portal. (Not sure why CSE-IITB folks have not indicated the source). These > maps/boundaries are in my opinion much more accurate (both in terms of > their shape and their geo-positioning) as compared to Census maps, but that > leaves certain questions about missing villages unanswered... The missing > polygons in these maps appear to be either forest polygons or town > polygons, and am curious why they have gone missing. Is there someone from > CSE-IITB team that we can loop in on this? > > Sharad > > On 31-05-2020 13:37, Digvijay Bendrikar Shinde wrote: > > 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 department, IIT Bombay has put Maharashtra state's Census '11 > data integrated village level shapefiles here > https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~pocra/MahaCensus_shapefile_data1.2/Boundary.html > > Hope this helps in you. > > Regards, > Digvijay > PhD Scholar > CTARA, IIT Bombay > > On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 1:07 PM Sharad Lele <sharad.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> the spatial boundary datasets released by Meiyyappan et al. I may not be >> able to lay out everything immediately, because of being in the throes of >> some deadlines, but hope to go through your writeup and respond a bit >> later--maybe mid-June, if that is okay with you. >> >> Best, >> Sharad >> >> On Sunday, May 31, 2020 at 1:09:24 AM UTC+5:30, Mark Montgomery wrote: >>> >>> Let me introduce myself to the group in this way: I am an Economics >>> professor at Stony Brook University in New York, with a long-time interest >>> in Indian urbanization. I am also keen to see as much as possible of the >>> spatial and socioeconomic detail on urbanization placed in the public >>> domain. Toward that end, colleagues and I have been knitting together the >>> 2001 and 2011 primary census abstracts (PCAs) that the Indian census >>> authorities have made available on the census website and incorporating >>> published data from the District Census Handbooks, all of these at the >>> level of individual settlements with coverage of wards for the PCAs. Our >>> aim is to create an integrated and publicly-accessible database based only >>> on publicly-available sources. As you would know very well, the spatial >>> side of the task is more challenging for 2001 than 2011. >>> >>> At the moment, I seek your guidance on the remarkable DataMeet >>> collection of polygons for villages, census towns, and statutory urban >>> centers, to which a number of you have contributed months or even years of >>> effort. I have linked your spatial records to the PCA identifiers >>> (including subdistrict and district) and in the process have come across >>> some issues (mainly concerning the vintages of the maps that were used, and >>> various oddities regarding identifiers) that some of you may know about. My >>> own spatial work uses R, but I am happy to share these results with the >>> group in other spatial formats (for instance, as geojson or geopackage >>> files). The next steps I have in mind are to compare the DataMeet polygons >>> with the often-mentioned Meiyappan et al. (2018) polygons that have been >>> publicly available at the Socioeconomic Data Applications Center (SEDAC) >>> site since 2018, and with a lesser-known but evidently high-quality >>> collection of 2001 point coordinates for villages and some hamlets >>> assembled by a University of Tokyo history professor and available on his >>> website. >>> >>> I'm attaching a short pdf that explains these three public-domain >>> sources (with links to the SEDAC and Univ. of Tokyo sources, and with a >>> critical review of aspects of those spatial datasets), and which in >>> particular lays out some of the issues I've encountered with the DataMeet >>> collection. (I've yet to get to grips with the Karnataka data for 1991, and >>> with the Rajasthan data that I believe are for 2011 or later.) 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