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Subject:        Re: mapping data for India needed
Date:   Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:34:30 -0400
From:   Tsering W Shawa ([log in to unmask]) <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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CC:     Bruce Obenhaus <[log in to unmask]>
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Bruce,

There are vendors in India who sell boundary files and census data. You can purchase state, district, tehsil, town, and village level census data. If you need company names let me know.

Thanks,
-Wangyal

Tsering Wangyal Shawa
Maps and Geographic Information Systems Librarian
Head, Digital Map and Geospatial Information Center
Peter B. Lewis Library
Fine Hall Wing, B-Level, Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone: (609) 258-6804
Fax: (609) 258-4607
www.princeton.edu/~geolib/gis

----- Original Message -----
From: Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2010 3:00 pm
Subject: mapping data for India needed
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        mapping data for India needed
> Date:   Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:55:43 -0400
> From:   Bruce Obenhaus <[log in to unmask]>
> To:     [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
> I'm trying to fill a request from an architecture graduate student at
> Virginia Tech.  See below.  If anyone has data and will lend it or
> knows where to obtain data please let me know.
>
>
> Hi Mr. Brooks,
>
> I'm a 5th Year Architecture student, and I'm working on my Thesis.
> My thesis
> involves global population growth, urban agglomerations,
> densification, and
> housing. My site will be somewhere in India, but I will also be
> talking about
> these issues globally. I wanted to see if you have any GIS data on
> Inida or
> information that would be helpful for my work. Anything would be much
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Joshua Eager
>
>
> Bruce Obenhaus
> Government Information Specialist
> University Libraries
> Virginia Tech
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