Re: [Talk-in] parliamentry, assembly seat boundaries
I added some comments to urban area in the talk page. On 22 March 2016 at 15:34, Jaisen Nedumpalawrote: > Hi, > > I have made a few additions and corrections to to this page: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_India/Boundaries > > Please have a look at that. > > > 2013-12-22 18:05 GMT+05:30 Arun Ganesh : > >> Lets take the discussion to the wiki. >> >> For anyone interested to join in: >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:India:Boundaries >> >> >> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 12:36 PM, ヴィカス ヤダヴァ (vikas yadav) < >> mevi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> my remarks about the proposal (also added in the talk page). >>> >>> Attributes >>> >>> There are few properties of each political boundaries: >>> >>>1. Elected Person >>>2. Election Year >>>3. ECI AC Number (ref number) >>>4. ECI PC Number (ref number) >>>5. ECI Ward Number (ref number) >>> >>> We need to support at least these in the attributes of political >>> boundaries to support extensions which can later take data from other >>> source or database. There are many other properties but these are the >>> minimum. >>> Ward boundary >>> >>> Ward members are also elected. Though they dont seem to be in the >>> political boundary. Please suggest. >>> >>> >>> Also, I have to checked other boundaries but even those should support >>> some attributes that help identify that region using govt. assigned ref >>> number for extensions. >>> >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> >>> On 21 December 2013 22:01, Arun Ganesh wrote: >>> Thanks Jaisen. I have updated the wiki with the added details you mentioned: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India:Boundaries Please check if anything is missing and update the page as necessary. This is probably the most comprehensive documentation for boundary mapping for any country. If the scheme can accommodate India, it can probably cover any other country too. On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Jaisen Nedumpala wrote: > Hi, > > Shall I add my ideas on these boundaries? > > In my vision, The following are the most prominent administrative > divisions in India: > > First set - Administrative boundaries > > 1. Territorial waters (Exclusive Economic Zone) (as per United > Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea) > 2. Zones (Interstate council) > 3. States and Union Territories (Governer and Chief Minister) > 4. Revenue Districts (District Collector) > 5. Revenue Divisions (Revenue Divisional Officer) > 6. Taluks / Tehsils (Tahsildar) > 7. Revenue Villages (Village officer) > 8. Survey / Re-survey /Un-survey - field measurement plots and sub > divisions > > Second Set - Legislative boundaries > > 1. Lok Sabha (Parliament) Constituency [Lok Sabha - MP] > 2. Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency [States and > Union Territories - MLA] > > Third Set - Local Self Government > > 1. Rural > a. District (Zilla) Panchayat (President and Secretary) > i Divisions (Member) > b. Development Blocks (Block/Mandal Panchayat) (President and > Block Development Officer/Secretary) > i Divisions (Member) > c. Grama (Village) Panchayat ( Rural Local Authority) > (President/Sarpanch and Secretary) > i Wards (Member) > > 2. Urban > a. Municipality / Municipal Corporation / Nagar Panchayat > (Urban Local Authority) and Metropolitan Region (Mayor and Secretary) > i. Zones > ii. Wards (Councillor) > > 3. Cantonment area (Officer in Command) > (Don't know it's divisions :( (Military area Local > Authority) > > Fourth Set - Courts and Police > 1. Jurisdiction of various courts > 2. Police Districts > 3. Police Circles > 3. Jurisdiction of Police Stations > > Fifth Set - Miscellaneous > 1. Special Economic Zones > 2. Coastal Regulation Zone > 3. Ecologically Sensitive Areas > > I think the above listed are the important sets, regarding the > administrative divisions of India. Besides these, almost all the > government > departments of various tiers of administration, have their own internal > administrative boundaries. > -- > ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ > - നെടുമ്പാല ജയ്സെന് - > ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ > (`'·.¸(`'·.¸^¸.·'´)¸.·'´) > «´¨`·* . Jaisen . *..´¨`» > (¸.·'´(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)`'·.¸) > ¸.·´^.`'·.¸ ¸.·'´ > ( `·.¸`·.¸ > `·.¸ )`·.¸ > ¸.·(´ `·.¸ > ¸.·(.·´)`·.¸ > ( `v´ ) > `v´ > >
Re: [Talk-in] parliamentry, assembly seat boundaries
Lets take the discussion to the wiki. For anyone interested to join in: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:India:Boundaries On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 12:36 PM, ヴィカス ヤダヴァ (vikas yadav) mevi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, my remarks about the proposal (also added in the talk page). Attributes There are few properties of each political boundaries: 1. Elected Person 2. Election Year 3. ECI AC Number (ref number) 4. ECI PC Number (ref number) 5. ECI Ward Number (ref number) We need to support at least these in the attributes of political boundaries to support extensions which can later take data from other source or database. There are many other properties but these are the minimum. Ward boundary Ward members are also elected. Though they dont seem to be in the political boundary. Please suggest. Also, I have to checked other boundaries but even those should support some attributes that help identify that region using govt. assigned ref number for extensions. Thanks. On 21 December 2013 22:01, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Jaisen. I have updated the wiki with the added details you mentioned: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India:Boundaries Please check if anything is missing and update the page as necessary. This is probably the most comprehensive documentation for boundary mapping for any country. If the scheme can accommodate India, it can probably cover any other country too. On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Jaisen Nedumpala jaisuv...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Shall I add my ideas on these boundaries? In my vision, The following are the most prominent administrative divisions in India: First set - Administrative boundaries 1. Territorial waters (Exclusive Economic Zone) (as per United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea) 2. Zones (Interstate council) 3. States and Union Territories (Governer and Chief Minister) 4. Revenue Districts (District Collector) 5. Revenue Divisions (Revenue Divisional Officer) 6. Taluks / Tehsils (Tahsildar) 7. Revenue Villages (Village officer) 8. Survey / Re-survey /Un-survey - field measurement plots and sub divisions Second Set - Legislative boundaries 1. Lok Sabha (Parliament) Constituency [Lok Sabha - MP] 2. Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency [States and Union Territories - MLA] Third Set - Local Self Government 1. Rural a. District (Zilla) Panchayat (President and Secretary) i Divisions (Member) b. Development Blocks (Block/Mandal Panchayat) (President and Block Development Officer/Secretary) i Divisions (Member) c. Grama (Village) Panchayat ( Rural Local Authority) (President/Sarpanch and Secretary) i Wards (Member) 2. Urban a. Municipality / Municipal Corporation / Nagar Panchayat (Urban Local Authority) and Metropolitan Region (Mayor and Secretary) i. Zones ii. Wards (Councillor) 3. Cantonment area (Officer in Command) (Don't know it's divisions :( (Military area Local Authority) Fourth Set - Courts and Police 1. Jurisdiction of various courts 2. Police Districts 3. Police Circles 3. Jurisdiction of Police Stations Fifth Set - Miscellaneous 1. Special Economic Zones 2. Coastal Regulation Zone 3. Ecologically Sensitive Areas I think the above listed are the important sets, regarding the administrative divisions of India. Besides these, almost all the government departments of various tiers of administration, have their own internal administrative boundaries. -- ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ - നെടുമ്പാല ജയ്സെന് - ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ (`'·.¸(`'·.¸^¸.·'´)¸.·'´) «´¨`·* . Jaisen . *..´¨`» (¸.·'´(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)`'·.¸) ¸.·´^.`'·.¸ ¸.·'´ ( `·.¸`·.¸ `·.¸ )`·.¸ ¸.·(´ `·.¸ ¸.·(.·´)`·.¸ ( `v´ ) `v´ ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad http://j.mp/ArunGanesh ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad http://j.mp/ArunGanesh ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] parliamentry, assembly seat boundaries
Hi, Shall I add my ideas on these boundaries? In my vision, The following are the most prominent administrative divisions in India: First set - Administrative boundaries 1. Territorial waters (Exclusive Economic Zone) (as per United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea) 2. Zones (Interstate council) 3. States and Union Territories (Governer and Chief Minister) 4. Revenue Districts (District Collector) 5. Revenue Divisions (Revenue Divisional Officer) 6. Taluks / Tehsils (Tahsildar) 7. Revenue Villages (Village officer) 8. Survey / Re-survey /Un-survey - field measurement plots and sub divisions Second Set - Legislative boundaries 1. Lok Sabha (Parliament) Constituency [Lok Sabha - MP] 2. Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency [States and Union Territories - MLA] Third Set - Local Self Government 1. Rural a. District (Zilla) Panchayat (President and Secretary) i Divisions (Member) b. Development Blocks (Block/Mandal Panchayat) (President and Block Development Officer/Secretary) i Divisions (Member) c. Grama (Village) Panchayat ( Rural Local Authority) (President/Sarpanch and Secretary) i Wards (Member) 2. Urban a. Municipality / Municipal Corporation / Nagar Panchayat (Urban Local Authority) and Metropolitan Region (Mayor and Secretary) i. Zones ii. Wards (Councillor) 3. Cantonment area (Officer in Command) (Don't know it's divisions :( (Military area Local Authority) Fourth Set - Courts and Police 1. Jurisdiction of various courts 2. Police Districts 3. Police Circles 3. Jurisdiction of Police Stations Fifth Set - Miscellaneous 1. Special Economic Zones 2. Coastal Regulation Zone 3. Ecologically Sensitive Areas I think the above listed are the important sets, regarding the administrative divisions of India. Besides these, almost all the government departments of various tiers of administration, have their own internal administrative boundaries. -- ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ - നെടുമ്പാല ജയ്സെന് - ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ (`'·.¸(`'·.¸^¸.·'´)¸.·'´) «´¨`·* . Jaisen . *..´¨`» (¸.·'´(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)`'·.¸) ¸.·´^.`'·.¸ ¸.·'´ ( `·.¸`·.¸ `·.¸ )`·.¸ ¸.·(´ `·.¸ ¸.·(.·´)`·.¸ ( `v´ ) `v´ ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] parliamentry, assembly seat boundaries
Thanks Jaisen. I have updated the wiki with the added details you mentioned: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India:Boundaries Please check if anything is missing and update the page as necessary. This is probably the most comprehensive documentation for boundary mapping for any country. If the scheme can accommodate India, it can probably cover any other country too. On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Jaisen Nedumpala jaisuv...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Shall I add my ideas on these boundaries? In my vision, The following are the most prominent administrative divisions in India: First set - Administrative boundaries 1. Territorial waters (Exclusive Economic Zone) (as per United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea) 2. Zones (Interstate council) 3. States and Union Territories (Governer and Chief Minister) 4. Revenue Districts (District Collector) 5. Revenue Divisions (Revenue Divisional Officer) 6. Taluks / Tehsils (Tahsildar) 7. Revenue Villages (Village officer) 8. Survey / Re-survey /Un-survey - field measurement plots and sub divisions Second Set - Legislative boundaries 1. Lok Sabha (Parliament) Constituency [Lok Sabha - MP] 2. Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency [States and Union Territories - MLA] Third Set - Local Self Government 1. Rural a. District (Zilla) Panchayat (President and Secretary) i Divisions (Member) b. Development Blocks (Block/Mandal Panchayat) (President and Block Development Officer/Secretary) i Divisions (Member) c. Grama (Village) Panchayat ( Rural Local Authority) (President/Sarpanch and Secretary) i Wards (Member) 2. Urban a. Municipality / Municipal Corporation / Nagar Panchayat (Urban Local Authority) and Metropolitan Region (Mayor and Secretary) i. Zones ii. Wards (Councillor) 3. Cantonment area (Officer in Command) (Don't know it's divisions :( (Military area Local Authority) Fourth Set - Courts and Police 1. Jurisdiction of various courts 2. Police Districts 3. Police Circles 3. Jurisdiction of Police Stations Fifth Set - Miscellaneous 1. Special Economic Zones 2. Coastal Regulation Zone 3. Ecologically Sensitive Areas I think the above listed are the important sets, regarding the administrative divisions of India. Besides these, almost all the government departments of various tiers of administration, have their own internal administrative boundaries. -- ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ - നെടുമ്പാല ജയ്സെന് - ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ (`'·.¸(`'·.¸^¸.·'´)¸.·'´) «´¨`·* . Jaisen . *..´¨`» (¸.·'´(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)`'·.¸) ¸.·´^.`'·.¸ ¸.·'´ ( `·.¸`·.¸ `·.¸ )`·.¸ ¸.·(´ `·.¸ ¸.·(.·´)`·.¸ ( `v´ ) `v´ ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad http://j.mp/ArunGanesh ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] parliamentry, assembly seat boundaries
Hi, my remarks about the proposal (also added in the talk page). Attributes There are few properties of each political boundaries: 1. Elected Person 2. Election Year 3. ECI AC Number (ref number) 4. ECI PC Number (ref number) 5. ECI Ward Number (ref number) We need to support at least these in the attributes of political boundaries to support extensions which can later take data from other source or database. There are many other properties but these are the minimum. Ward boundary Ward members are also elected. Though they dont seem to be in the political boundary. Please suggest. Also, I have to checked other boundaries but even those should support some attributes that help identify that region using govt. assigned ref number for extensions. Thanks. On 21 December 2013 22:01, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Jaisen. I have updated the wiki with the added details you mentioned: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India:Boundaries Please check if anything is missing and update the page as necessary. This is probably the most comprehensive documentation for boundary mapping for any country. If the scheme can accommodate India, it can probably cover any other country too. On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Jaisen Nedumpala jaisuv...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Shall I add my ideas on these boundaries? In my vision, The following are the most prominent administrative divisions in India: First set - Administrative boundaries 1. Territorial waters (Exclusive Economic Zone) (as per United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea) 2. Zones (Interstate council) 3. States and Union Territories (Governer and Chief Minister) 4. Revenue Districts (District Collector) 5. Revenue Divisions (Revenue Divisional Officer) 6. Taluks / Tehsils (Tahsildar) 7. Revenue Villages (Village officer) 8. Survey / Re-survey /Un-survey - field measurement plots and sub divisions Second Set - Legislative boundaries 1. Lok Sabha (Parliament) Constituency [Lok Sabha - MP] 2. Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency [States and Union Territories - MLA] Third Set - Local Self Government 1. Rural a. District (Zilla) Panchayat (President and Secretary) i Divisions (Member) b. Development Blocks (Block/Mandal Panchayat) (President and Block Development Officer/Secretary) i Divisions (Member) c. Grama (Village) Panchayat ( Rural Local Authority) (President/Sarpanch and Secretary) i Wards (Member) 2. Urban a. Municipality / Municipal Corporation / Nagar Panchayat (Urban Local Authority) and Metropolitan Region (Mayor and Secretary) i. Zones ii. Wards (Councillor) 3. Cantonment area (Officer in Command) (Don't know it's divisions :( (Military area Local Authority) Fourth Set - Courts and Police 1. Jurisdiction of various courts 2. Police Districts 3. Police Circles 3. Jurisdiction of Police Stations Fifth Set - Miscellaneous 1. Special Economic Zones 2. Coastal Regulation Zone 3. Ecologically Sensitive Areas I think the above listed are the important sets, regarding the administrative divisions of India. Besides these, almost all the government departments of various tiers of administration, have their own internal administrative boundaries. -- ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ - നെടുമ്പാല ജയ്സെന് - ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ (`'·.¸(`'·.¸^¸.·'´)¸.·'´) «´¨`·* . Jaisen . *..´¨`» (¸.·'´(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)`'·.¸) ¸.·´^.`'·.¸ ¸.·'´ ( `·.¸`·.¸ `·.¸ )`·.¸ ¸.·(´ `·.¸ ¸.·(.·´)`·.¸ ( `v´ ) `v´ ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad http://j.mp/ArunGanesh ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] parliamentry, assembly seat boundaries
Thanks Sajjad. So I guess, I will continue using the PDF files for constituencies to trace assemblies then? (OT: The census of 2000 and the delimitation was done in 2008? When will they incorporate the 2011 census then?) On 20 December 2013 16:00, Sajjad Anwar m...@sajjad.in wrote: Dear Vikas, These boundaries are no longer valid because they have changed in 2008. Unfortunately, they haven't released the post-delimitation data. Follow along the discussion on the Datameet list - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/datameet/AZrQAoeeDhU Cheers, Sajjad. On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 1:17 PM, ヴィカス ヤダヴァ (vikas yadav) mevi...@gmail.com wrote: http://web.archive.org/web/20101012225159/http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/GisLayers/gis_layers.asp http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/GisLayers/GIS_AC_Data.zip http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/GisLayers/GIS_PC_Data.zip They upgraded their site recently. On 20 December 2013 13:16, ヴィカス ヤダヴァ (vikas yadav) mevi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Shajeer. I like this idea. No experience is working with shape files though. Do you know which govt dept. makes shape files? Is it ECI or other? On 19 December 2013 15:56, Shajeer M shaj...@hotmail.com wrote: Based on the old email https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-in/2009-March/000378.html discussions we had, election commission did put some shape files for PC (Parliament) and AC (Assembly). This is no longer available on their site. Quick search shows a similar named file here - https://bitbucket.org/thejeshgn/open-data-india/src/d2e84516e06525962fc61991bfdaa28ecf133fa2/GIS/India_PC/?at=default From: Arun Ganesh Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 12:04 PM To: Vikas Yadav Cc: OpenStreetMap in India Subject: Re: [Talk-in] parliamentry, assembly seat boundaries I did some research into the different jurisdictions, and I think I have a fair Idea now of how our Government is structured :) I'll start a page on the osm wiki so we can build on this: Electoral State [State Secretariat - Chief Minister] Lok Sabha Constiuency [Lok Sabha - MP] Vidhan Sabha Constituency [State Secretariat - MLA] District Panchayat (Zilla Panchayat) Block Panchayat (Panchayat Samiti) [Block Development Officer] Gram Panchayat [Sarpanch] Revenue District [Headquarter - Collector] Subdistrict [Headquarter - Tahsildar] Revenue Block [Revenue Inspector] Village Block Civic Municipal Corporation / Municpality / Town or Village Panchayat [Town Hall - Mayor] Zone [Zone office] Ward [Ward office - Ward Councillor] Economic Metropolitan Region SEZ Police On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Vikas Yadav vi...@thevikas.com wrote: Thanks Arun. They are changed once after a census since all are usually use population to adjust it properly though other parameters are also used. In conjunction to government offices and their bodies, these boundaries are very critical. Then there is a lot of meta data about the current MP, MLA or Councillor depending on the area. We can choose how much of it we put in OSM. Also, all these three boundaries can overlap each other. There is no hierarchy to these, e.g. assembly can belong to two parliamentary constituencies or two municipal wards belong to two assemblies. All the infrastructure we have in OSM india, like streets, schools, signals, toilets, they all belong to a particular ward, assembly or parliamentary boundary depending on the type of POI. When this gets defined properly, OSM data can later be used very nicely by citizens to locate responsible offices for complaining and monitoring, maintaining the public properties. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimitation_Commission_of_India See: http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/delimitation_faq.aspx (disclaimer: im interested in making OSM a good tool for RTIs) On 16 December 2013 15:50, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:24 AM, ヴィカス ヤダヴァ (vikas yadav) mevi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, (also posted this in osm india forum) I have checked the info for India in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrativeand could not find the boundary (admin_level) for parliamentary, assembly limits. I have only started image tracing over the NCR maps given by election commission and state election commissions. I could not find a better data source. Im using a number admin_level=6 for assembly boundaries and will use admin=5 for parliamentary boundaries. Since electoral boundaries don't necessarily overlap with administrative boundaries, this scheme could get quite messy. I would think we should reserve the admin_level tags purely for administrative divisions like those mentioned here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_division i.e States, Districts, Subdistricts
Re: [Talk-in] parliamentry, assembly seat boundaries
I have made more updates to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India:Boundaries I basically went through a whole range of sources to understand the administrative and political setup of the country and this has been documented. I'm still a little confused with the definition of Blocks and Sub-tehsils and if they are the same? We probably need an IAS person to go through the table and check if everything is in order. Its amazing how I could find no single source of information that explained all this in a simple way. -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad http://j.mp/ArunGanesh ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] parliamentry, assembly seat boundaries
I just went through the final 2008 delimitation order from ECI which is available here: http://eci.nic.in/delim/Final_Publications/finalpublication.asp Parliament constituencies are defined in terms of assembly constituencies. And assembly constituencies are defined in terms of tehsil/sub-tehsil/local bodies. We already have a pretty good district boundary dataset in OSM (although it looks like its from 2001). The next step is to probably update this as start adding subdistricts/tehsils which can make it an extremely rich dataset for a wide variety of uses including deriving a decent constituency map. -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad http://j.mp/ArunGanesh ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] parliamentry, assembly seat boundaries
I have put together a consolidated tagging proposal for various boundaries in India. Please take a look and discuss: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India:Boundaries -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad http://j.mp/ArunGanesh ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] parliamentry, assembly seat boundaries
Thanks Shajeer. I like this idea. No experience is working with shape files though. Do you know which govt dept. makes shape files? Is it ECI or other? On 19 December 2013 15:56, Shajeer M shaj...@hotmail.com wrote: Based on the old email https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-in/2009-March/000378.htmldiscussions we had, election commission did put some shape files for PC (Parliament) and AC (Assembly). This is no longer available on their site. Quick search shows a similar named file here - https://bitbucket.org/thejeshgn/open-data-india/src/d2e84516e06525962fc61991bfdaa28ecf133fa2/GIS/India_PC/?at=default *From:* Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com *Sent:* Thursday, December 19, 2013 12:04 PM *To:* Vikas Yadav vi...@thevikas.com *Cc:* OpenStreetMap in India talk-in@openstreetmap.org *Subject:* Re: [Talk-in] parliamentry, assembly seat boundaries I did some research into the different jurisdictions, and I think I have a fair Idea now of how our Government is structured :) I'll start a page on the osm wiki so we can build on this: 1. Electoral 1. State [State Secretariat – Chief Minister] 2. Lok Sabha Constiuency [Lok Sabha - MP] 3. Vidhan Sabha Constituency [State Secretariat - MLA] 4. District Panchayat (Zilla Panchayat) 5. Block Panchayat (Panchayat Samiti) [Block Development Officer] 6. Gram Panchayat [Sarpanch] 2. Revenue 1. District [Headquarter - Collector] 2. Subdistrict [Headquarter - Tahsildar] 3. Revenue Block [Revenue Inspector] 4. Village Block 3. Civic 1. Municipal Corporation / Municpality / Town or Village Panchayat [Town Hall - Mayor] 2. Zone [Zone office] 3. Ward [Ward office - Ward Councillor] 4. Economic 1. Metropolitan Region 2. SEZ 5. Police On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Vikas Yadav vi...@thevikas.com wrote: Thanks Arun. They are changed once after a census since all are usually use population to adjust it properly though other parameters are also used. In conjunction to government offices and their bodies, these boundaries are very critical. Then there is a lot of meta data about the current MP, MLA or Councillor depending on the area. We can choose how much of it we put in OSM. Also, all these three boundaries can overlap each other. There is no hierarchy to these, e.g. assembly can belong to two parliamentary constituencies or two municipal wards belong to two assemblies. All the infrastructure we have in OSM india, like streets, schools, signals, toilets, they all belong to a particular ward, assembly or parliamentary boundary depending on the type of POI. When this gets defined properly, OSM data can later be used very nicely by citizens to locate responsible offices for complaining and monitoring, maintaining the public properties. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimitation_Commission_of_India See: http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/delimitation_faq.aspx (disclaimer: im interested in making OSM a good tool for RTIs) On 16 December 2013 15:50, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:24 AM, ヴィカス ヤダヴァ (vikas yadav) mevi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, (also posted this in osm india forum) I have checked the info for India in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative and could not find the boundary (admin_level) for parliamentary, assembly limits. I have only started image tracing over the NCR maps given by election commission and state election commissions. I could not find a better data source. Im using a number admin_level=6 for assembly boundaries and will use admin=5 for parliamentary boundaries. Since electoral boundaries don't necessarily overlap with administrative boundaries, this scheme could get quite messy. I would think we should reserve the admin_level tags purely for administrative divisions like those mentioned here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_division i.e States, Districts, Subdistricts, Municipal Corporations, Municipalities, Panchayats There seems to be some work on boundary=political which is probably more relevant for constituencies: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dpolitical But even I'm not completely sure how these boundaries compare in India, we have so many types of overlapping jurisdictions and need a better understanding of what they are to come up with a tagging scheme. Is there any comprehensive resources to understand all these boundaries, I'll document them on the wiki if there are any leads. Please suggest. Thanks, Vikas ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in -- Arun Ganesh
Re: [Talk-in] parliamentry, assembly seat boundaries
http://web.archive.org/web/20101012225159/http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/GisLayers/gis_layers.asp http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/GisLayers/GIS_AC_Data.zip http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/GisLayers/GIS_PC_Data.zip They upgraded their site recently. On 20 December 2013 13:16, ヴィカス ヤダヴァ (vikas yadav) mevi...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks Shajeer. I like this idea. No experience is working with shape files though. Do you know which govt dept. makes shape files? Is it ECI or other? On 19 December 2013 15:56, Shajeer M shaj...@hotmail.com wrote: Based on the old email https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-in/2009-March/000378.htmldiscussions we had, election commission did put some shape files for PC (Parliament) and AC (Assembly). This is no longer available on their site. Quick search shows a similar named file here - https://bitbucket.org/thejeshgn/open-data-india/src/d2e84516e06525962fc61991bfdaa28ecf133fa2/GIS/India_PC/?at=default *From:* Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com *Sent:* Thursday, December 19, 2013 12:04 PM *To:* Vikas Yadav vi...@thevikas.com *Cc:* OpenStreetMap in India talk-in@openstreetmap.org *Subject:* Re: [Talk-in] parliamentry, assembly seat boundaries I did some research into the different jurisdictions, and I think I have a fair Idea now of how our Government is structured :) I'll start a page on the osm wiki so we can build on this: 1. Electoral 1. State [State Secretariat - Chief Minister] 2. Lok Sabha Constiuency [Lok Sabha - MP] 3. Vidhan Sabha Constituency [State Secretariat - MLA] 4. District Panchayat (Zilla Panchayat) 5. Block Panchayat (Panchayat Samiti) [Block Development Officer] 6. Gram Panchayat [Sarpanch] 2. Revenue 1. District [Headquarter - Collector] 2. Subdistrict [Headquarter - Tahsildar] 3. Revenue Block [Revenue Inspector] 4. Village Block 3. Civic 1. Municipal Corporation / Municpality / Town or Village Panchayat [Town Hall - Mayor] 2. Zone [Zone office] 3. Ward [Ward office - Ward Councillor] 4. Economic 1. Metropolitan Region 2. SEZ 5. Police On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Vikas Yadav vi...@thevikas.com wrote: Thanks Arun. They are changed once after a census since all are usually use population to adjust it properly though other parameters are also used. In conjunction to government offices and their bodies, these boundaries are very critical. Then there is a lot of meta data about the current MP, MLA or Councillor depending on the area. We can choose how much of it we put in OSM. Also, all these three boundaries can overlap each other. There is no hierarchy to these, e.g. assembly can belong to two parliamentary constituencies or two municipal wards belong to two assemblies. All the infrastructure we have in OSM india, like streets, schools, signals, toilets, they all belong to a particular ward, assembly or parliamentary boundary depending on the type of POI. When this gets defined properly, OSM data can later be used very nicely by citizens to locate responsible offices for complaining and monitoring, maintaining the public properties. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimitation_Commission_of_India See: http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/delimitation_faq.aspx (disclaimer: im interested in making OSM a good tool for RTIs) On 16 December 2013 15:50, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:24 AM, ヴィカス ヤダヴァ (vikas yadav) mevi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, (also posted this in osm india forum) I have checked the info for India in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative and could not find the boundary (admin_level) for parliamentary, assembly limits. I have only started image tracing over the NCR maps given by election commission and state election commissions. I could not find a better data source. Im using a number admin_level=6 for assembly boundaries and will use admin=5 for parliamentary boundaries. Since electoral boundaries don't necessarily overlap with administrative boundaries, this scheme could get quite messy. I would think we should reserve the admin_level tags purely for administrative divisions like those mentioned here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_division i.e States, Districts, Subdistricts, Municipal Corporations, Municipalities, Panchayats There seems to be some work on boundary=political which is probably more relevant for constituencies: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dpolitical But even I'm not completely sure how these boundaries compare in India, we have so many types of overlapping jurisdictions and need a better understanding of what they are to come up with a tagging scheme. Is there any
Re: [Talk-in] parliamentry, assembly seat boundaries
Thanks Arun. They are changed once after a census since all are usually use population to adjust it properly though other parameters are also used. In conjunction to government offices and their bodies, these boundaries are very critical. Then there is a lot of meta data about the current MP, MLA or Councillor depending on the area. We can choose how much of it we put in OSM. Also, all these three boundaries can overlap each other. There is no hierarchy to these, e.g. assembly can belong to two parliamentary constituencies or two municipal wards belong to two assemblies. All the infrastructure we have in OSM india, like streets, schools, signals, toilets, they all belong to a particular ward, assembly or parliamentary boundary depending on the type of POI. When this gets defined properly, OSM data can later be used very nicely by citizens to locate responsible offices for complaining and monitoring, maintaining the public properties. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimitation_Commission_of_India See: http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/delimitation_faq.aspx (disclaimer: im interested in making OSM a good tool for RTIs) On 16 December 2013 15:50, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:24 AM, ヴィカス ヤダヴァ (vikas yadav) mevi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, (also posted this in osm india forum) I have checked the info for India in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative and could not find the boundary (admin_level) for parliamentary, assembly limits. I have only started image tracing over the NCR maps given by election commission and state election commissions. I could not find a better data source. Im using a number admin_level=6 for assembly boundaries and will use admin=5 for parliamentary boundaries. Since electoral boundaries don't necessarily overlap with administrative boundaries, this scheme could get quite messy. I would think we should reserve the admin_level tags purely for administrative divisions like those mentioned here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_division i.e States, Districts, Subdistricts, Municipal Corporations, Municipalities, Panchayats There seems to be some work on boundary=political which is probably more relevant for constituencies: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dpolitical But even I'm not completely sure how these boundaries compare in India, we have so many types of overlapping jurisdictions and need a better understanding of what they are to come up with a tagging scheme. Is there any comprehensive resources to understand all these boundaries, I'll document them on the wiki if there are any leads. Please suggest. Thanks, Vikas ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad http://j.mp/ArunGanesh ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] parliamentry, assembly seat boundaries
I did some research into the different jurisdictions, and I think I have a fair Idea now of how our Government is structured :) I'll start a page on the osm wiki so we can build on this: 1. Electoral 1. State [State Secretariat – Chief Minister] 2. Lok Sabha Constiuency [Lok Sabha - MP] 3. Vidhan Sabha Constituency [State Secretariat - MLA] 4. District Panchayat (Zilla Panchayat) 5. Block Panchayat (Panchayat Samiti) [Block Development Officer] 6. Gram Panchayat [Sarpanch] 2. Revenue 1. District [Headquarter - Collector] 2. Subdistrict [Headquarter - Tahsildar] 3. Revenue Block [Revenue Inspector] 4. Village Block 3. Civic 1. Municipal Corporation / Municpality / Town or Village Panchayat [Town Hall - Mayor] 2. Zone [Zone office] 3. Ward [Ward office - Ward Councillor] 4. Economic 1. Metropolitan Region 2. SEZ 5. Police On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Vikas Yadav vi...@thevikas.com wrote: Thanks Arun. They are changed once after a census since all are usually use population to adjust it properly though other parameters are also used. In conjunction to government offices and their bodies, these boundaries are very critical. Then there is a lot of meta data about the current MP, MLA or Councillor depending on the area. We can choose how much of it we put in OSM. Also, all these three boundaries can overlap each other. There is no hierarchy to these, e.g. assembly can belong to two parliamentary constituencies or two municipal wards belong to two assemblies. All the infrastructure we have in OSM india, like streets, schools, signals, toilets, they all belong to a particular ward, assembly or parliamentary boundary depending on the type of POI. When this gets defined properly, OSM data can later be used very nicely by citizens to locate responsible offices for complaining and monitoring, maintaining the public properties. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimitation_Commission_of_India See: http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/delimitation_faq.aspx (disclaimer: im interested in making OSM a good tool for RTIs) On 16 December 2013 15:50, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:24 AM, ヴィカス ヤダヴァ (vikas yadav) mevi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, (also posted this in osm india forum) I have checked the info for India in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative and could not find the boundary (admin_level) for parliamentary, assembly limits. I have only started image tracing over the NCR maps given by election commission and state election commissions. I could not find a better data source. Im using a number admin_level=6 for assembly boundaries and will use admin=5 for parliamentary boundaries. Since electoral boundaries don't necessarily overlap with administrative boundaries, this scheme could get quite messy. I would think we should reserve the admin_level tags purely for administrative divisions like those mentioned here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_division i.e States, Districts, Subdistricts, Municipal Corporations, Municipalities, Panchayats There seems to be some work on boundary=political which is probably more relevant for constituencies: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dpolitical But even I'm not completely sure how these boundaries compare in India, we have so many types of overlapping jurisdictions and need a better understanding of what they are to come up with a tagging scheme. Is there any comprehensive resources to understand all these boundaries, I'll document them on the wiki if there are any leads. Please suggest. Thanks, Vikas ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad http://j.mp/ArunGanesh -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad http://j.mp/ArunGanesh ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
Re: [Talk-in] parliamentry, assembly seat boundaries
Based on the old email https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-in/2009-March/000378.html discussions we had, election commission did put some shape files for PC (Parliament) and AC (Assembly). This is no longer available on their site. Quick search shows a similar named file here - https://bitbucket.org/thejeshgn/open-data-india/src/d2e84516e06525962fc61991bfdaa28ecf133fa2/GIS/India_PC/?at=default From: Arun Ganesh Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 12:04 PM To: Vikas Yadav Cc: OpenStreetMap in India Subject: Re: [Talk-in] parliamentry, assembly seat boundaries I did some research into the different jurisdictions, and I think I have a fair Idea now of how our Government is structured :) I'll start a page on the osm wiki so we can build on this: 1.. Electoral 1.. State [State Secretariat – Chief Minister] 2.. Lok Sabha Constiuency [Lok Sabha - MP] 3.. Vidhan Sabha Constituency [State Secretariat - MLA] 4.. District Panchayat (Zilla Panchayat) 5.. Block Panchayat (Panchayat Samiti) [Block Development Officer] 6.. Gram Panchayat [Sarpanch] 2.. Revenue 1.. District [Headquarter - Collector] 2.. Subdistrict [Headquarter - Tahsildar] 3.. Revenue Block [Revenue Inspector] 4.. Village Block 3.. Civic 1.. Municipal Corporation / Municpality / Town or Village Panchayat [Town Hall - Mayor] 2.. Zone [Zone office] 3.. Ward [Ward office - Ward Councillor] 4.. Economic 1.. Metropolitan Region 2.. SEZ 5.. Police On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Vikas Yadav vi...@thevikas.com wrote: Thanks Arun. They are changed once after a census since all are usually use population to adjust it properly though other parameters are also used. In conjunction to government offices and their bodies, these boundaries are very critical. Then there is a lot of meta data about the current MP, MLA or Councillor depending on the area. We can choose how much of it we put in OSM. Also, all these three boundaries can overlap each other. There is no hierarchy to these, e.g. assembly can belong to two parliamentary constituencies or two municipal wards belong to two assemblies. All the infrastructure we have in OSM india, like streets, schools, signals, toilets, they all belong to a particular ward, assembly or parliamentary boundary depending on the type of POI. When this gets defined properly, OSM data can later be used very nicely by citizens to locate responsible offices for complaining and monitoring, maintaining the public properties. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimitation_Commission_of_India See: http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/delimitation_faq.aspx (disclaimer: im interested in making OSM a good tool for RTIs) On 16 December 2013 15:50, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:24 AM, ヴィカス ヤダヴァ (vikas yadav) mevi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, (also posted this in osm india forum) I have checked the info for India in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative and could not find the boundary (admin_level) for parliamentary, assembly limits. I have only started image tracing over the NCR maps given by election commission and state election commissions. I could not find a better data source. Im using a number admin_level=6 for assembly boundaries and will use admin=5 for parliamentary boundaries. Since electoral boundaries don't necessarily overlap with administrative boundaries, this scheme could get quite messy. I would think we should reserve the admin_level tags purely for administrative divisions like those mentioned here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_division i.e States, Districts, Subdistricts, Municipal Corporations, Municipalities, Panchayats There seems to be some work on boundary=political which is probably more relevant for constituencies: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dpolitical But even I'm not completely sure how these boundaries compare in India, we have so many types of overlapping jurisdictions and need a better understanding of what they are to come up with a tagging scheme. Is there any comprehensive resources to understand all these boundaries, I'll document them on the wiki if there are any leads. Please suggest. Thanks, Vikas ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https