Jeff, Is this for a particular state or for the entire country? If for Karnataka, we can help as we did this exercise to create reports like these: http://www.klp.org.in/reports//infrastructure/English/MP_Bangalore_Central.pdf
If for the entire country, you can buy polygons of PIN Codes from http://www.mlinfomap.com/ as well as MP constituency polygons. On Friday, 14 February 2014, Jeff Weaver <[email protected]> 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! > > -- > For more details about this list > http://datameet.org/discussions/ > --- > 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 > [email protected]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','datameet%[email protected]');> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
