Free vector outline district map of India
Would you believe it if i told you there isnt even a single detailed outline map of this country which is free. I didnt, until a research scholar from IITM approached me for a map to help in a document he his preparing for a government sponsored project – the national knowledge network (what an irony). Imagine, even the professor in charge has been contacting various government agencies to get hold of a district map of the country because there is none available online.
This is something that the government should have done, but since they seem to think that the band of jokers at NIC are competent in the field of information technology, its upto citizens like us to save the face of this nation. We may call ourselves the exporters of IT to the world, but when it comes to providing its own citizens with even a tiny amount of useful detail, we fail miserably.
Hence i am releasing the vector base map data of India that includes international, state and district boundaries, into the public domain. This should be of benefit especially to academicians and students who uptill now had to make do with watermarked, low resolution maps for their work. This is the same data that was used to create my other maps on wikipedia.
Included Data:
Boundary of India
State boundaries (accurate)
District boundaries (accurate upto year 2001)
Disputed areas of Azad Kashmir, Aksai Chin and Siachen Glacier (More Info)
Coordinate lines and scale
License:
Public Domain
Download Format:
India Raster Map PNG Download
India Vector Map PDF Download
To fully customize the map, use a vector editor like Adobe Illustrator or inkscape (free), to style the map according to your needs.
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June 16, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Nice work! And free too. How’s that schematic coming along?
Dynesh
June 16, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Thanks, the schematic is on the shelf at the moment
hopefully can resume work once i get more time.
planemad
June 17, 2008 at 12:57 am
Dude, planemad.. what about this?
Amog
June 18, 2008 at 10:56 am
Excellent and appreciate your work on this map. I have been trying to lay a hand on one for quite a while until i stumbled into yr website. If i had not seen yors I would have been lost and was taking it as a channelge to produce one ofr free.
Being Indian I feel sorry that our NIC info is pathetic.
People like you make the difference and cheers mate. keep it up and I will pass on the word.
Sadly our sezindia.nic.in/ web site cant even put a map of india showing all the sez they have approved.
“A picture tells a thousand word” is never understood by many. Having said that the Nhai.org web site is upto date with monthly updates on the roads is worth a mention.
warm regards
Capt Sri
Capt Srikanth
August 25, 2008 at 5:21 pm
cool maps, is there a way to convert these locator maps to latitude/longitude points
dkjnkm
August 27, 2008 at 11:05 am
@Capt Srikanth
Thanks captain
@dkjnkm
Real sorry mate, its not that accurat
You would need something made with a gis application for that. Try checking out the state locator maps ive made on wikipedia, that has a rectangular projection and would be more suitable than this one which has conical projection
planemad
September 8, 2008 at 12:59 am
Thanks so much for your work on this. It’s tremendously helpful. (College teacher trying to orient students, and not spend a fortune, or break copyright laws doing it.)
Rebecca Howell
October 25, 2008 at 3:08 am
Awesome, thats exactly the purpose
planemad
October 25, 2008 at 11:13 pm
hey ! This map has been super useful !
Thanks !
sasha
November 14, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Thank you very much for this! I am an academic doing medical research on child survival in India and required such a map for one of our publications. I and the coauthors of the paper are very grateful!
Alex E
November 17, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Thanx a ton. This is a boon to people from the design industry as well… thanx again
Yogesh
January 20, 2009 at 4:54 pm
thanks brother! You are absolutely true. This basic but extremely useful piece of info about our own country is not available online!! thanks for the great job!!
Mayank
January 23, 2009 at 7:43 pm
@sasha @alex @yogesh @mayank
thanks a lot guys
planemad
January 30, 2009 at 1:03 am
It is the info… i been looking for…. thanks.
Amar
February 28, 2009 at 11:17 am
Excellent work dude…has been looking for a map of India showing the state boundaries without any other details.. .
great work…
but the government should also realize that people do need maps of their country and should provide them for free at certain sites..
siddharth singh
March 9, 2009 at 3:13 pm
its truly amazing,
that u took the trouble
and people out there actually expected to their bit
dont manage to stand up
need to share some notes with u
regards
jaun
March 14, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Thanks, I used it in a research report to colour specific districts. Very useful!
Saurabh Gupta
London
Saurabh
May 6, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Dude planemad incredible work and i respect your work and public domain releases. I am looking for district level maps for an ngo to show their offices on a map on their website i am sure ur data will be of great help , keep up the good work man.
chandigarh
madeep
May 9, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Hi,
First of all thanks for the wonderful map. I had a small querry. How do we select individual districts & shade them? Is dat possible? Do I need to learn ADOBE for dat?
Regards
Nilay Bala
Nilay Bala
July 23, 2009 at 10:38 am
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August 9, 2009 at 1:12 am
Thanks a million. It’s because of people like you that the Web is such a great place.
Rohan
August 13, 2009 at 4:21 pm
@planemad I knew all your map work would be useful to me at some point of time. I just downloaded the PDF version.
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!
Susheel Chandradhas
September 11, 2009 at 9:16 pm
P.S. used for an NGO, if it was commercial, I’d have made a contribution.
Susheel Chandradhas
September 11, 2009 at 9:17 pm
The agony is over. Visit http://www.maptell.com for free GIS ARCGIS shapefile data (Outline, Road etc) download for India.
Regards
Sreeraj(Oct 2009)
Sreeraj Nair
October 8, 2009 at 1:00 pm
hi,
could you let me know which projection you used to create the raster and the vector maps?
thanks
shibalee
October 15, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Hi,
you have done a great work.Kindly let me know how to convert this into a WMF map where I can color each and every district using a simple VBA program.
Thanks in advance
Upendra
November 6, 2009 at 2:20 pm