Re: [Talk-in] Election Boundaries for India?

2012-12-27 Thread Onkar Shinde
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Pradeep Mohandas
 wrote:
> hi,
>
> Are election boundaries of India available as open data? Is it available
> from data.gov.in?

A quick look at the site tells me that this data is not available. I
don't know if there are any other websites where it would be
available. Even if it is I highly doubt there is any open license
associated with it.

>
> Since the General Elections are up and coming in 2014, perhaps this might be
> a good exercise to undertake in 2013 for the OSM community?

Why? There is lot of street data still missing. I think we should
focus on that first.

How (and to whom) is adding election boundaries going to help? And
what tagging do you suggest to be used for it?


Cheers,
Onkar
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[Talk-in] Election Boundaries for India?

2012-12-27 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi,

Are election boundaries of India available as open data? Is it available
from data.gov.in?

Since the General Elections are up and coming in 2014, perhaps this might
be a good exercise to undertake in 2013 for the OSM community?

As Mikel Maron puts it[1] so eloquently, it is "the most primary
geographies of democracy".

warm regards,
Pradeep
[1] - http://brainoff.com/weblog/2012/12/05/1790

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