Wow this is great, thanks for sharing this Naraina! I'm copy-pasting a transpose of the header row from the villages master so that we can see what the metadata is like. Next 2 columns are example rows.
"*RevenueVillagecode*" column is the primary key in this dataset. Is this the census code, and if so, which? (would look this up myself but have to set out for the day) StateCode 1 8 StateName JAMMU AND KASHMIR RAJASTHAN DisttCode 1 94 DistrictName ANANTNAG BUNDI SubdistCode 53 625 SubdistName Pahalgam Keshoraipatan BlockCode 637 BlockName KESHORAIPATAN GramPanchyatCode 36283 GramPanchyatName LESARDA RevenueVillagecode 3517 94222 RevenueVillageName Arow Halihera -- Cheers, Nikhil VJ +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Website <http://nikhilvj.co.in> DataMeet Pune chapter <https://datameet-pune.github.io/> Self-designed learner at Swaraj University <http://www.swarajuniversity.org> Payment / Contribute <https://nikhilvj.benow.in/pay> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 1:29 PM, Naraina aka Dilip Damle < cadvis...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > In the process of trying to combine and study the other sources of a > comprehensive directory of Indian villages I stumbled in to this. > > > https://www.dbtdacfw.gov.in/ > > On this website go to DOWNLOAD _ MASTERS and you can directly download A > masyer at every level from State to Village. > > > The village list contains 7,10,319 Entries .. at least about 50,000 more > than other single source. > > Downloading is easy .. no scraping required. > > > For the benefit of New People the other Known sources were > > 1. Census > 2. Local Government Directory > 3. Rural Ministry data > 4. Water ministry habitation data. > > > ------------------------------- > > Update as I am writing this > > Ran "Remove Duplicates" On that file and found about 8000 absolute > duplicates after removal > > 7,02,068 Villages Remain ...... Still substantially more than other > sources. > > > Note : I have not yet studied the masters for Veracity. > > Regards > > Dilip Damle > > > > > > > > > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more > about us by visiting http://datameet.org > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
