Hi Veena the gram panchayat names are given in the village census district handbooks. However, they are also available at lgdirectory.gov.in >> Download Directory >> gram panchayat mapping to village
Avinash On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Veena Ramanna <ve...@indiagoverns.org> wrote: > Dear Avinash, > > I was looking at the pincodes_censuscodes.zip > <https://github.com/avinashcelestine/Pincodes-data/blob/master/pincodes_censuscodes.zip> > in the github at the location you have specified. This is helpful. > > In addition to the pin codes, you have also been able to get gram > panchayat names. How have you managed that? Could you please tell me. > > regards, > Veena > > On 4 April 2016 at 12:44, Avinash Celestine <avinash.celest...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Adding some relevant data. >> >> The district handbooks released by census provide pincode details for >> village areas. for each village / location code, they provide the relevant >> pincode which covers that village. I have collated that data from the >> handbook files and put them up here: >> >> https://github.com/avinashcelestine/pincodes_censuscodes >> >> Unfortunately, the district handbooks only provide such pincode data for >> villages, not towns or wards. And even within villages, a number of >> locations dont have the relevant pincode info (i think a large part of >> Madhya Pradesh is blank for instance). Another bunch of villages have >> pincodes in less than 6 digits. Despite these issues however, there are >> still 4.13 lakh villages out of a total of 6.4 lakh, for whom six digit >> pincodes are given. >> >> the handbooks are here: >> http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/DCHB.html >> >> (For the sake of completeness, i have not removed entries for those >> villages for which pincodes are not given) >> >> These will be useful for anyone looking to map census data to pincodes. >> >> regards >> >> Avinash >> >> On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Dilip Damle <cadvis...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Devdatta, >>> >>> What is the data that you are looking for. >>> I had saved it. >>> But it is huge. About 1.55 GB consisting of about 135 shapefiles out of >>> which 70 are raw booths. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 12:32:47 PM UTC+5:30, Devdatta Tengshe >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Raphael, >>>> >>>> Firstly, thanks a lot for extracting this information. >>>> >>>> I was looking at http://dx.doi.org/10.4119/unibi/2674065, but I could >>>> find only the Boundaries for the constituencies. >>>> >>>> Can you tell us where we can find the locations of the polling booths >>>> that you had extracted? >>>> >>>> Secondly, can you also share (if you still have them) the heatmaps code >>>> that you used to create the constituency boundaries? I think that is what >>>> will be required to create the pincode boundaries as well. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Dev >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Devdatta >>>> >>>> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Raphael Susewind < >>>> li...@raphael-susewind.de> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Dear all, >>>>> >>>>> following up on my earlier email, I just pushed a list of pincodes for >>>>> all electoral booths across India to GitHub and made a pull request to >>>>> the datameet repository: >>>>> >>>>> https://github.com/datameet/pincodes/pull/2 >>>>> >>>>> Please note that this can be incomplete, and is based on a rather >>>>> brutish, quick and dirty hack - see comments in rolls2pincode.pl. But >>>>> it >>>>> does use the same IDs as those in the 2014 elections, and hence can be >>>>> combined with my GIS shapefiles for polling booths: >>>>> >>>>> http://dx.doi.org/10.4119/unibi/2674065 >>>>> >>>>> I leave it to others to double-check accuracy and create actual pincode >>>>> maps. I hope this is useful, >>>>> >>>>> Best, >>>>> Raphael >>>>> >>>>> On 28.03.2016 07:50, Raphael Susewind wrote: >>>>> >>>>> > Dear Avinash and all, >>>>> > >>>>> > I will try to make some time this week to scrape the pincodes from >>>>> > electoral rolls for all polling booths in my electoral GIS >>>>> shapefiles. >>>>> > >>>>> > Since pincode is in latin script, this should not be affected by the >>>>> > much discussed PDF scraping issues with electoral rolls. >>>>> > >>>>> > We could then either go down the voronoi route, or alternatively use >>>>> the >>>>> > heatmap processing chain that I used to generate AC boundaries - this >>>>> > latter would have the advantage of dealing with wrong coordinates in >>>>> the >>>>> > booth point dataset (basically, not all electoral booth coordinates >>>>> are >>>>> > correct; consequently, if we only voronoi, we would have a blip of >>>>> > pincode B within a see of pincode A quite frequently. The heatmap >>>>> stuff >>>>> > takes care of this). >>>>> > >>>>> > Since I am not familiar with postal boundaries: can anyone here >>>>> confirm >>>>> > whether pincode areas are contiguous, and whether each pincode has >>>>> only >>>>> > one area? Or can it be that several non-contiguous areas have the >>>>> same >>>>> > pincodem intersparsed with other pincodes? (In which case voronoi >>>>> would >>>>> > perhaps be the better solution at last) >>>>> > >>>>> > In any case, I hope to give you the pincode for each polling booth by >>>>> > end of the week or so (based on all-India 2014 electoral rolls), >>>>> > >>>>> > Best, >>>>> > Raphael >>>>> > >>>>> > On 28.03.2016 06:33, Avinash Celestine wrote: >>>>> > >>>>> >> perhaps one way is to avoid using postal data altogether. >>>>> >> >>>>> >> All header pages in electoral rolls(the first page) contain the >>>>> name of >>>>> >> the polling station related to that roll, the PS number, and >>>>> importantly >>>>> >> the pin code. >>>>> >> >>>>> >> A site like psleci.nic.in <http://psleci.nic.in> has geog >>>>> coordinates >>>>> >> of polling stations (though Raphael had collected the data >>>>> earlier*). >>>>> >> Matching the two will give a fairly dense scattering of points - in >>>>> >> fact much more dense than if we used some of the methods earlier in >>>>> this >>>>> >> thread. >>>>> >> >>>>> >> We thus have a way of associating a pin code with a geo coordinate. >>>>> We >>>>> >> can then use the voronoi method. >>>>> >> >>>>> >> Electoral rolls are mostly in pdf which make them difficult to >>>>> scrape. >>>>> >> But from what i have seen, for any given state, the location on the >>>>> >> header page, of the pincode number is more or less constant, making >>>>> it >>>>> >> possible to target just that part of the page with any pdf parser. >>>>> >> >>>>> >> Electoral rolls have become difficult to download in bulk( a good >>>>> >> thing!) but i understand different people on this group have the >>>>> pdfs >>>>> >> for different states. Putting this stuff together should give us >>>>> >> comprehensive data on header pages for atleast some states. >>>>> >> Alternatively, we can file RTIs for just the header pages of >>>>> electoral >>>>> >> rolls, though i dont know how successful that would be. >>>>> >> >>>>> >> * Raphael's data is >>>>> >> at https://github.com/raphael-susewind/india-election-data >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 12:07 PM, srinivas kodali < >>>>> iota....@gmail.com >>>>> >> <mailto:iota....@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>>> >> >>>>> >> Well, There were postal delivery zones in the past and the >>>>> postal >>>>> >> department even used to make maps of these zones. The Delhi >>>>> postal >>>>> >> delivery zone map >>>>> >> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1RcWLku0ZOWWVBHMldrZWdfZ >>>>> EU/view?usp=sharing> had >>>>> >> boundaries for delhi. I am not sure if other cities had them or >>>>> how >>>>> >> long the postal department was doing this, but it certainly can >>>>> help >>>>> >> with the boundaries for cities. >>>>> >> >>>>> >> Regards, >>>>> >> Srinivas Kodali >>>>> >> www.lostprogrammer.com <http://www.lostprogrammer.com> >>>>> >> /"Not everyone who wanders is lost, I am probably a bit"/ >>>>> >> >>>>> >> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 9:29 PM, Arun Ganesh < >>>>> arung...@gmail.com >>>>> >> <mailto:arung...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>>> >> >>>>> >> Shravan, crowdsourcing the boundaries of pincodes is not as >>>>> >> trivial as you think. To start with, an area does not fall >>>>> under >>>>> >> a pincode, rather a street does based on the post office >>>>> that >>>>> >> services it. Read >>>>> >> this: http://www.georeference.org/do >>>>> c/zip_codes_are_not_areas.htm >>>>> >> >>>>> >> You may also want to do some background reading of existing >>>>> >> research that has been done by the group >>>>> >> here: https://datameet.hackpad.com/M >>>>> 4hPFJVV2Gm?eid=v4YoXN4tTw5 >>>>> >> >>>>> >> To sum up, nobody has precise pincode boundaries like how >>>>> you >>>>> >> imagine them, not even the postal department. 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