Thanks guys! I think we can start a community project to build these boundaries. How about using OpenStreetMap to trace these boundaries. Ideas, suggestions are welcome.
Thanks Raphael, I think I'll use the point to polygon method for now. Thanks, Shravan On 17 March 2016 at 11:33, Raphael Susewind <li...@raphael-susewind.de> wrote: > Hi Shravan, > > another option - depending on what you are after - could be to use > Devdatta's point data for post offices, voronoi it into polygons, and > aggregate by pincode - that might not be the same as official > boundaries, but the closest you can get (each locality in India would be > assigned to the most proximate postoffice...) > > Best, > Raphael > > On 17.03.2016 06:18, Jaisen Nedumpala wrote: > > Hi Shravan, > > > > I don't think that you would get it that easy. I was in search of this > > data, since the year 2008. Eventually I could understand that even the > > department of posts doesnt have this data. We could do it as a community > > project to build it. Not easy, but not impossible. > > > > > > 2016-03-17 10:32 GMT+05:30 shravan <shravan.s...@gmail.com > > <mailto:shravan.s...@gmail.com>>: > > > > Hey everyone, > > > > I am looking for pin code boundaries of India, preferably in any of > > the GIS file formats ( kml, kmz, shp, geojson or any other ). It > > would be nice if someone can point me in the right direction, where > > I can get this data from. > > > > Thanks, > > Shravan > > > > -- > > 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 > > <mailto:datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ > > - ജയ്സെനോവ് നെടുമ്പാലോവിച്ച് പഹയനോവ്സ്കി - > > ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ > > (`'·.¸(`'·.¸^¸.·'´)¸.·'´) > > «´¨`·* . Jaisenov. *..´¨`» > > (¸.·'´(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)`'·.¸) > > ¸.·´^.`'·.¸ ¸.·'´ > > ( `·.¸`·.¸ > > `·.¸ )`·.¸ > > ¸.·(´ `·.¸ > > ¸.·(.·´)`·.¸ > > ( `v´ ) > > `v´ > > > > -- > > 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 > > <mailto:datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > Dr Raphael Susewind | Associate, Contemporary South Asia Studies, Oxford > Snail Mail | Melanchthonstr. 4a, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany > Web & Twitter | https://www.raphael-susewind.de | @RaphaelSusewind > Impact | https://impactstory.org/raphael-susewind > > Please consider https://www.gnupg.org for encryption (key id 10AEE42F) > > -- > 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.
