Re: [datameet] Identifying urban agglomeration boundaries

2020-10-16 Thread amish sarpotdar
Hi Aditya and others, I have often thought of this since my PhD deals with some of the boundary and territory issues. Some pointers from my own experience: The GHSL is useful but will be hard to overlay with official boundaries and is a plumbing fix more than a sustainable solution for figuring

Re: [datameet] Identifying urban agglomeration boundaries

2020-10-14 Thread Deepak Sharda
Hello sir great thinking. I suggest to do it with LULC data. We have color coded raster data of area (Red for urbanised or populated area). we can extract polygon from LULC data for Boundaries. regards On Wed, 14 Oct, 2020, 7:47 pm Aditya Medury, wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying make sense of

[datameet] Identifying urban agglomeration boundaries

2020-10-14 Thread Aditya Medury
Hi, I am trying make sense of how to translate the definitions of urban agglomerations/million-plus cities in the 2011 census. Census defines urban agglomeration as follows: *An urban agglomeration is a continuous urban spread constituting a town and its adjoining outgrowths (OGs), or two or