Village Data Collection - Andaman and Nicobar

[dhruv-1001]

Description

This issue tracks the village data collection for state - Andaman and Nicobar

Implementation Details

Visit onlinemaps.surveyofindia.gov.in

Update your profile.

Select Click to buy

Select State & Dist you want to download data for. Keep adding till you have added all the districts for a state.

Place order on next screen. Download data one-by-one.

Data downloaded will be in .zip format, with file names as such

• Village Boundary Database.zip
• Village Boundary Database (1).zip
• Village Boundary Database (2).zip
• ... and so on

Extract these files
You will have .gdb folders for districts you have downloaded as such

• AGRA.gdb
• ALIGARH.gdb
• PRAYAGRAJ.gdb
• ... and so on

Now convert these files to .zip, to have files like this

• AGRA.zip
• ALIGARH.zip
• PRAYAGRAJ.zip
• ... and so on
  .zip to be created using this tool.

Now that you have .zip files for all districts of a state. You now need to upload these files to this repository using git lfs.

How to upload .zip files using git lfs

Make sure you have git lfs installed. Follow instructions provided here.

Once you have installed git lfs. Add everything you have downloaded, inside server/geojson-data/indian_village_boundaries.zip/ folder inside of a folder named after the state you have downloaded village data for.
Following the example above, it would look like such.

• indian_village_boundaries.zip
  • uttar_pradesh
    • AGRA.zip
    • ALIGARH.zip
    • PRAYAGRAJ.zip

Once you have files in this file structure, follows this documentation to add downloaded files using git lfs.

Once you are done, open up a PR to this repository

Resources

Expected Outcomes

• Repository should have village data for all districts of given state.

Product Name

GeoIP

Project Name

GeoIP

Organization Name

SamagraX

Domain

NA

Tech Skills Needed

Git LFS

Category

Data Collection

Mentor(s)

@ChakshuGautam

Complexity

Low

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[AlgoFoe]

Hey @dhruv-1001 , I would like to work on this ,can you please assign this issue to me?

[AlgoFoe]

The tool mentioned to convert the .gdb folders to .zip cannot de downloaded .Can u provide an .exe of the tool for windows
?

[KasaniDheerajVenu]

hey @dhruv-1001 , can you please review the PR #97 and assign this issue to me .Added all files of andaman and nicobar.

[jainvedant392]

Hey @dhruv-1001, I made the pull request to this issue last week, so could you please assign this to me and review the PR?
Thanks.

[Sumsum1231]

Hey @dhruv-1001, I have raised a PR please review it.