Hi Jeff,
Were you able to find the pin code matching with assembly constituencies?
On Friday, 14 February 2014 22:39:02 UTC+5:30, Jeff Weaver wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Just came across this group, and excited to read about all the cool data
> tasks that people are working on. I’m currently trying to link a dataset of
> school data (DISE) to the MP/MLA constituencies (and eventually maybe
> panchayats) in which they are located. Each school has its district, block,
> village and PIN code listed. I was really hoping to connect it to assembly
> constituencies using the PIN code data, and avoid doing any name-matching.
> My plan was to use the GPS coordinates of PIN codes and then link them
> using the GIS maps of constituencies.
>
> However, I haven’t been able to find a large enough dataset on the GPS
> coordinates of the pincodes. Does anyone know of a good public (or private)
> source of this or have another suggestion for how to do this? I have the
> dataset that someone in the group made using Open Street Maps, and it’s
> great, but it doesn’t cover a lot of the pin codes (especially the rural
> ones). Or are there companies that are willing to sell it for a reasonable
> price?
>
> Thanks!
>
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