India/Places
This page is a proposal and has not been accepted. Discussions can be found on the Project India mailing list[1][2]
The reference document for classifying Indian places is the Indian Census 2011 MDDS Geographical code directory[3][4] and 2011 Census metadata doc[5]. The osm tag names closely match the areas under the census classification, but may not be exact for classification of suburbs or localities.
For name=*, try to use the exact names in the MDDS directory for consistency, any other name can be in name:en=* or alt_name=*
Data sources
Reference lists
- India Local Government Directory (Replaces the older Census 2011 MDDS standard
- List of cities in India on Wikipedia
Spatial data
- NASA/SEDAC:India Village-Level Geospatial Socio-Economic Data Set.
- License: Attribution Meiyappan, P., Roy, P. S., Soliman, A., Li, T., Mondal, P., Wang, S., & Jain, A. K. (2018). India Village-Level Geospatial Socio-Economic Data Set: 1991, 2001 [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.7927/H4CN71ZJ
- JOSM/WMTS layer https://api.mapbox.com/styles/v1/planemad/ckc6t9k710wht1imq1641rfft/wmts?access_token=MAPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN
- Point in polygon JSON API: https://api.mapbox.com/v4/planemad.bs7vpmau/tilequery/LONGITUDE,LATITUDE.json?radius=2000&limit=5&dedupe&access_token=MAPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN
- Note: The village boundaries have inconsistent accuracy and offset for direct use. Use as a reference for missing village names after verification from Local Government Directory.
place=city
Urban areas administered by:
- M.Corp. Municipal Corporation/Corporation
place=town
Urban areas administered by:
- C.M.C City Municipal Council
- M Municipality
- M.B. Municipal Board
- M.C Municipal Committee
- M.Cl Municipal Council
- N.P Nagar Panchayat
- N.T Notified Town
- N.T.A Notified Town Area
- S.T.C Small Town Committee
- T.C. Town Committee/Town Area Committee
- T.M.C Town Municipal Council
place=suburb
Urban/suburban areas administered by:
- T.S. Township
- C.B. Cantonment board/Cantonment
- E.O Estate Office
- I.N.A Industrial Notified Area
- I.T.S. Industrial Township
- N.A. Notified Area
- N.A.C Notified Area Committee/Council
place=neighbourhood
Urban neighbourhoods, localities, layouts or colonies. Also any named notable area. eg. Nariman Point
place=village
Rural areas administered by:
- T.P Town Panchayat
- G.P Gram Panchayat
place=hamlet
Rural habitation clusters outside villages
References
- ↑ http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-in/2012-May/thread.html
- ↑ https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-in/2016-August/thread.html#2654
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160830131233/http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/paper2/data_files/kerala/13-concept-34.pdf
- ↑ http://egovstandards.gov.in/Mapping_location_codes
- ↑ http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/HLO/Metadata_Census_2011.pdf