[Talk-in] City boundaries

[Arun Ganesh]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Rémy Sanchez <
remy.sanchez at activkonnect.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> How do you plan to create them?
>
>
> That is an excellent point, I wanted to check out the problems you guys
> already had before thinking about it alone.
>
> I guess land registrar offices don't provide digital maps nation-wide, but
> has anyone tried to actually get one of those maps, on paper I mean?
>
>
The body responsible for managing urban areas is the Municpal Corporation
or Municipalities. Apart from the metropolises, GIS adoption is very low,
and they still rely on sketch or cad maps of the urban subdivisions (wards)
which are not to scale.

During my college years in Chennai, I would visit individual municipal ward
offices and the head office to request for maps and it is usually given to
me, but they are of poor quality with large errors in scale and street
topology.

So for the majority of urban bodies in India, we can assume that there is
very little accurate source data publicly accessible..

It may be possible that some states have digitized these boundaries and
have GIS datasets available online, but there is no central organization to
manage this for the whole country.


> Sorry about stating the obvious, I'm just trying to know where we stand.
>
> Thanks,
> Rémy Sanchez
>
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