On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Sajjad Anwar <m...@sajjad.in> wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > We are just thinking of creating a choropleth map based on some education > data in India. The state boundaries rendered out of mapnik doesn't look > promising. What is the status of the state boundaries? Are they good and > dependable? > The census shapefile import missed many multipolygon districts (disjointed areas, mostly on the coast), so it does not look like you can create a complete state boundary shape using the data in osm. You should instead try the naturalearthdata [1] or the orginal ECI/Census shapefiles [2][3]. The accuracy of all the datasets looks questionable as the borders dont exactly overlap. I have been hoping that better shapefiles would be released from the census 2011 dataset, but there's no sign of it till now. [1] http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vectors/ [2] http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/GisLayers/gis_layers.asp [3] http://geocommons.com/overlays/131045 (also looks like some districts are missing) > > Cheers > -- > Sajjad Anwar | W: http://sajjad.in | T: @geohacker > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-in mailing list > Talk-in@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in > > -- j.mp/ArunGanesh <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh>
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