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CodeforNepal / nepalmap_app

An application that maps census and other official data for Nepal to make data more easily accessible and understandable to the public. Want to help us? Check out the Wiki.
https://nepalmap.org
MIT License
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Breakdown by city within a district. #68

Closed prashishh closed 8 years ago

prashishh commented 8 years ago

More of a research task.

Would be amazing!

ravinepal commented 8 years ago

We need shape files for those, @prashishh. Is there a way to extract from http://www.openstreetmap.org/

We are also looking for shape files of VDCs. Can you spread the word among the mappers community to see if anyone can help?

prashishh commented 8 years ago

Tagging Pratik (@jedi-knight) who works at Kathmandu Living Labs to give us more insight.

jedi-Knight commented 8 years ago

Hi there, exciting to see the project. The site looks amazing! Regarding the issue: You can download the OSM data in shp format from this site: http://download.geofabrik.de/asia/nepal.html They're updated daily. Then, using QGIS, you can extract the city/municipality and vdc boundaries by querying for the attributes boundary=administrative and _adminlevel=8 These boundaries haven't been fully mapped on OSM for all districts though. You can find the full vdc dataset on other websites, such as here: http://geonode.wfp.org/layers/geonode%3Akhm_pop_adm4population_gov I think there's one at the HDX site as well: https://data.humdata.org/ but that'll need some thorough search. But these datasets, although complete, are probably outdated since VDC boundaries change frequently; and these generally lack clearly stated usage terms. Contacting ICIMOD might also be a good idea since they may have a complete (and probably updated) dataset in the regional database system: http://rds.icimod.org/ ICIMOD has also hosted the admin boundaries on this site: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=8ac0e0cf08044731a9309db634c7d894 with the username _adminnepaleq you can try contacting the user of the account as well. Also, Department of Survey may be able to provide the dataset via their procedure described here: http://ngiip.gov.np/dynamic/resorcDwn Tagging @nirabpudasaini he might have more info.