A unified, structured collection of India's openly-licensed geospatial data — administrative boundaries, electoral maps, census geometries, environmental zones, water resources, infrastructure networks, healthcare, education, urban municipal data, and more.

Browse and download at india-geodata

Total: approximately 1,800+ files across 14 aggregated source collections and curated external links.

Small files are stored directly in this repository under data/. Clone or download individual directories as needed.

Large files (administrative boundaries, forests, coastal zones, etc.) are distributed through GitHub Releases. Each release tag corresponds to a data category.

# Download all state boundary files
gh release download admin/states --dir ./downloads/states

# Download only parquet files for districts
gh release download admin/districts --pattern "*.parquet" --dir ./downloads/districts

# Download everything for forests
gh release download environment/forests --dir ./downloads/forests

# List all available releases
gh release list

To download all release assets at once, use the helper script:

python scripts/download-releases.py

data/
  administrative/     States, Districts, Subdistricts, Blocks, Panchayats,
                      Villages, Habitations, Divisions
  electoral/          Assembly and Parliamentary Constituencies
  census/             Census 2011 boundaries, Historical district series
  environment/        Forests, Coastal zones, Land use, Soil classification,
                      Flood inventory, Flood atlas
  water/              Rivers, Streams, Lakes, Reservoirs, Tanks,
                      Watersheds, Irrigation, Wetlands, Water Body Census,
                      Urban Water, Natural Features
  infrastructure/     Rural roads (PMGSY/GeoSadak), National highways,
                      SOI roads, NIC roads, ML roads, Urban roads,
                      PMGSY enhanced formats, Railways, Inland waterways
  transport/          Airports and Aerodromes
  buildings/          Urban building footprints (AMRUT, GSDL, VEDAS)
  energy/             Power plants
  healthcare/         Public health facilities
  education/          Schools, colleges, universities
  urban/              Municipal wards, Slum boundaries, Localities
  postal/             Pincode boundaries
  police/             Police station jurisdictions, Station locations
  survey-of-india/    SOI index maps and reference boundaries
  remote-sensing/     Nighttime lights (VIIRS), Population density (WorldPop)
  external/           Curated links to SHRUG and other platforms

docs/                 GitHub Pages source
scripts/              Validation, build, download, and transport scripts
LICENSES/             License texts for all included data

Each data directory contains a README.md with dataset documentation and a metadata.json with machine-readable metadata.

This repository consolidates data from the following open-data projects and government portals:

Government data sources include: Survey of India, Local Government Directory (MoPR), ISRO Bhuvan, Forest Survey of India, National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management, GatiShakti, eGramSwaraj, Swachh Bharat Mission, the Election Commission of India, NOAA Earth Observation Group, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), Indian Railways, Water Resources Information System (WRIS), National Informatics Centre (NIC), SLUSI, Jal Dharohar, and AMRUT.

This repository is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Individual datasets carry their own licenses as documented in their metadata.json files. See the LICENSES/ directory for full license texts.

@misc{india_geodata,
  title = {India Geodata: Unified Geospatial Data Repository},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  url = {https://github.com/yashveeeeeeer/india-geodata}
}

See CITATION.cff for machine-readable citation metadata.

Corrections, dataset suggestions, and documentation improvements are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

For official political maps of India, the Survey of India maps are the authoritative reference. This repository aggregates publicly available geospatial data under open licenses and is intended for research, analysis, and educational purposes.

Relevant policy documents:

• National Data Sharing and Access Policy 2012
• Indian Geospatial Guidelines 2021
• National Geospatial Policy 2022