Local Bodies in Kerala
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At present, there are 1200 local governments in Kerala, which includes 941 Grama Panchayats, 152 Block Panchayats, 14 District Panchayats, 87 Municipalities and 6 Municipal Corporations. More on local bodies in India. Each local body, except District Panchayath is divided into wards
- Corporations
- Municipalities
- Gram panchayat
- District panchayat - All Gram Panchayats in District
- Block panchayat
Overpass query :- http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/WGd (red:Gram Panchayat; green:Municipality ; blue:Municipal Corporation)
Release of Panchayath Boundary (Admin8)
- Open data maps of Kerala local bodies created - timesofindia.indiatimes.com - Nov 1, 2020
- Collaborative mapping of local body wards of Kerala under way - www.thehindu.com June 01, 2021
Cleanup LSG Kerala Data 2022
This Mapping Task is to co-ordinate standardize and cleanup lsg-kerala data (admin_level=8) of Kerala state, India. More information at https://github.com/opendatakerala/lsg-kerala-data/issues.
- Fix Chillu/ZWJ issues
- Standardize Names
- Check Admin Center (Node)
- Duplications
- Remove Unwanted ways
Enhancing LSG Data 2024
- Adding Qids of Block Panchayath
Team
- Manoj Karingamadathi
- Heinz_V
- Naveen Francis
- Jinoy Tom Jacob
Research/Publications/Talks
- Dataset Release
- Creating Structured Data for Local Self Government with Wikidata and OpenStreetMap by Manoj Karingamadathil, Naveen Francis at WikidataCon 2021: A Sustainable Future for Wikidata – October 29th -31st, 2021
- Map Kerala Initiative by Manoj Karingamadathil at 24th Debian Conference is in Infopark, Kochi, India from Sunday 10th September to Sunday 17th September 2023.
- Karingamadathil, M., & Jacob, J. T. (2024). Open Data Kerala: Connecting Data, Inspiring Change. Wikimania 2024, Katowice, Poland. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13225823