[Talk-in] parliamentry, assembly seat boundaries

[Shajeer M]

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 <vikas at 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.planemad at gmail.com> wrote:





    On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:24 AM, ヴィカス　ヤダヴァ (vikas yadav) <mevikas at 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

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