I need only names for making a chained dropdown list for users to select location correctly and submit the data.
Please provide any resources.
I emailed censusindia.gov.in but no reply from them.
[GIS] find a list of states, districts and tehsil names in India
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There is the following site that I have just found:
http://www.protectedplanet.net/
They have downloads of protected areas for the world.
The help page tells you how you can download the data, which is available in shp, KMZ or CSV format:
http://www.protectedplanet.net/help
If you do a search for Australia, you can then filter your results for world heritage sites, and download this data as a shp.
I dont know about the rest of the world, but for the UK you can download a large amount of designation data from Magic:
This will link you to the English Heritage page for the English boundaries:
You will need to register to download the information.
For Scotland it is available from Scottish Natural Heritage:
I could not find any information on the Countryside Council for Wales website for Wales.
I would suggest downloading and installing QGIS. You can then open the file that you link to and export the data in variety of formats.
The most common format for spatial data of this type is a shapefile which is one of the files that you linked to (TM_WORLD_BORDERS_SIMPL-0.2.zip). The reason that it is a zipfile is that there are several associated files with a shapefile and zipping them into a folder keeps them together.
When you download and install QGIS click on this icon
. Then navigate to the folder where you unzipped TM_WORLD_BORDERS_SIMPL-0.2.zip and add the file TM_WORLD_BORDERS_SIMPL-0.2.shp. You should then see the country boundaries on your screen.
Then, right-click on the file name on the left part of the screen. There will be an option save-as and you can choose a variety of formats (in my screenshot I choose geojson).
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Expanding on my Comment, You should download the Administrative Atlas from here: http://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/maps/maps2011.html
This has the data for all sub districts in India. It might not be an easy to extract format, but this is as official and exhaustive an list that you are going to get.
You should know that division of districts is not uniform across India. In some states they are called Tehesils, somewhere else they are called Taluks, in A.P. They are called Mandals, and so on.