I am looking for a shapefile of Assam showing district-wide boundaries. I have searched in the net but I have not been able to locate one for Assam, even though shapefiles for India are available.
Can anyone suggest where I can obtain such a file?
[GIS] Seeking shapefile for Assam in India
dataindiashapefile
Related Solutions
As far as I am aware, this data is currently not available freely due to various reasons.
update You can download the shapefile from FAO's Site: http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home?uuid=446ed430-8383-11db-b9b2-000d939bc5d8
Original Answer
However you can get some basic information about the various soil properties for a given area here : India-WRIS
You can also find some old maps at EU Soils, which you could digitize to create new shapefiles.
Disclaimer: I am currently working on the team that is involved in the development of the first linked site
For administrative boundaries, look at GADM database of Global Administrative Areas Select India, and choose "level 3".
Edit: here's a screen grab of the resulting KML file, looks like it matches the link you provided, but GADM has it for the whole country.
Best Answer
You can get various Boundary datasets from here: https://github.com/datameet/maps/