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Code to look at forest clearances by MOEF&CC GOI.
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Let's map these places #1

Closed answerquest closed 4 years ago

answerquest commented 4 years ago

More of a request to the community : Let's map these places please? We could start with just approx lat-longs.

Turning the tables on me: I can start work on a project for crowdsourcing mapping of these - if there is interest from more people.

answerquest commented 4 years ago

by the way I followed here from https://groups.google.com/d/msg/datameet/L7vCjwnswhc/S3nUzaWDAQAJ

vjjan91 commented 4 years ago

Hey Nikhil,

That article's headline is extremely misleading and the entire exploratory analysis I carried out - I just posted it on twitter for a stimulating conversation and wasn't meant for any media related coverage. But you know how it is.... 🙄

Pratik has been doing some amazing analysis with this data (as you see with the code) and yes, mapping them would be great, but unfortunately we don't have access to the raw locations data. We are waiting on the same. If this is something that you would want to do, Pratik and I could discuss how you could help us work through the same.

Vijay

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pratikunterwegs commented 4 years ago

Hi Nikhil, it's great that you're interested! We're in touch with a fantastic team at IndiaSpend https://environmentclearance.indiaspend.com/ who've already mapped some projects post-2014 (this was done by @pankhurikumar23). I'll be including them in any work going forward with this since they've already done a lot.

I have something in mind that requires scraping PARIVESH (parivesh.nic.in) for clearance data, and then geocoding based off the project descriptions, and then analysing timeseries of forest cover. Would that interest you?

Overall I see a 2-pronged approach, where @vjjan91 and I take on the technical side and write a scientific article (which takes time for peer review etc), and the IndiaSpend folks get the results out there as data-driven news. Is that an approach you could get on board with?

brunmuska commented 4 years ago

Hi All,

Great to see that there is some collaboration of sorts taking shape. I am a final year Doctoral Researcher at University of Manchester. When I saw this, I realised the potential this has to communicate the complex analysis to the public, which I believe is much needed. An online interactive map with different environment socio-economic layers, has an immediate impact. As part of my PhD, I have amassed a huge amount of geo-data across different themes, which is available in fragmented places across the internet anyway. Will be happy to contribute and help in any capacity I can.

Kind Regards, Amish Sarpotdar https://www.seed.manchester.ac.uk/planning/research/postgraduate-research/student-spotlights/amish-sarpotdar/

rmadhok commented 4 years ago

Hi All,

I followed this conversation from datameet. I am working with forest clearance data for my own doctoral research. I've scraped individual applications from 2014-2018 along with the names of districts and villages spanned by each project. This could be useful in geocoding.

I am happy to collaborate and share. I've already begun a manuscript for my thesis that uses a district-level time series. However, I envision a whole pipeline of research with this data, and geocoding projects would open lots of doors.

Perhaps we could start an email chain to discuss next steps?

Thanks, Raahil www.raahilmadhok.com

vjjan91 commented 4 years ago

Closing this chain for now and starting an e-mail thread. @marauders9 - Can you send an e-mail to Pratik / I, we can add you to the thread. I found @rmadhok 's email address.

answerquest commented 4 years ago

Hi All, do carry on the conversation, and datameet mailing list is a good place to do it at btw. My time bandwidth is scarce so will have to step back a bit.