Hi folks, I believe Nisha Thompson and Thejesh were trying to figure out the legal dimensions related to posting these boundaries on our group. Maybe Nisha can give us an update on where things stand?
Sharad On Friday, July 8, 2016 at 11:38:44 AM UTC+5:30, Devdatta Tengshe wrote: > > Hey Justin. > > >>Devdatta, ... you have to have the data too!?? I personally don't have > any data of Villages with me. > For two reasons: > > - Having worked with this Data when I was working with ISRO on > India-WRIS, and with Government of Bihar, I don't want anyone to entertain > the possibility that I stole the data from there. NDAs and Official > Secrets > Act is a Scary thing for me personally. > - Having looked at this data, I question the possibility of a uniform > All India dataset which matches other datasets. I think that probably only > the Census Dept (not even the Survey Of India) has a decent All India > Dataset. I do not know that by law, all Government Departments need to buy > their data from Survey Of India, and that data is terrible. Hence the data > at India-WRIS, or Bhuvan, or Bihar's IBhugol is not an up-to-date, usable > dataset. I don't know where the ppl at BISAG got the data for National > Centre of Geo-Informatics. > > >>why people from India aren't posting the data when they have it > > I can't answer for others, but I imagine, that this is because it is > difficult to explain how this data happened to be in your ownership, when > the original source is usually Survey Of India, or some other Govt > Department. > > > >>Can it be hosted on GitHub? > > Even Though I'm not a Lawyer, my understanding is that it can be. Infact, > given that you are not based in the country, you would be the best person > on the group to do so. > > > > Regards, > Devdatta > > On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Justin Meyers <justinell...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> SR, >> Thanks - have the data downloaded from both. can the vector data be >> shared? the lgdir data is constantly changing... >> >> Devdatta, you know whats going on behind the scenes with the sites - you >> have to have the data too!?? >> >> thejeshgn.com >> <https://archive.org/search.php?query=publisher%3A%22thejeshgn.com%22> - >> he has the data too?? https://archive.org/details/IndiaVillageBoundaries >> >> not sure why people from India aren't posting the data when they have it >> - Is the govt restricting free data from being uploaded? Can it be posted >> ? https://archive.org/details/IndiaVillageBoundaries started, but >> stopped? does everyone have all that data (for the entire nation) >> already? The Mapbox people must have it!? Or am I the only one in the >> world with several different full national level datasets for villages in >> India? This cannot be true - >> >> Can it be hosted on GitHub? >> >> On Thursday, July 7, 2016 at 11:14:54 PM UTC-4, Sutirtha wrote: >>> >>> If you want to eyeball the villages and check their boundaries: >>> https://ncog.gov.in/garvgis/admin/gisModule >>> >>> If you want to just make sure you have the complete list of villages: >>> http://lgdirectory.gov.in/rptConsolidateVillageGramPanchayat.do?OWASP_CSRFTOKEN=7XNL-ARRY-910I-Q8CR-0O1H-M0GL-9MH8-0GRY >>> >>> SR >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> *Sutirtha Roy | Economist, O/o CEA | Ministry of Finance* >>> *011-23095176 (O) **9810645843 (M) * >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 7:37 AM, Justin Meyers <justinell...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Does anyone have a village dataset I can compare to for verification >>>> before I upload to github? >>>> On Jul 7, 2016 8:55 PM, "Devdatta Tengshe" <devd...@tengshe.in> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hey Justin, >>>>> Please post them. Lot of people are asking for them. >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Devdatta Tengshe >>>>> Ph: 735-358-0782 >>>>> On 08-Jul-2016 7:21 am, "Justin Meyers" <justinell...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Can I post shapefile data for India Villages? >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> 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+u...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. 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