[Talk-in] parliamentry, assembly seat boundaries

[Vikas Yadav]

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.planemad at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:24 AM, ヴィカス ヤダヴァ (vikas yadav) <
> mevikas at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> (also posted this in osm india forum)
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>> 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.
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> 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
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> i.e States, Districts, Subdistricts, Municipal Corporations,
> Municipalities, Panchayats
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> There seems to be some work on boundary=political which is probably more
> relevant for constituencies:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dpolitical
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> 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
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