Collection of Open Series Maps from Survey Of India - Copyright Notice

Code used to extract this data.

All the data below is updated monthly

Collection Summary

• List Of All Available Sheets
• Extraction Status Page

Get A Copy

The data is also hosted as a mosaic of pmtiles files in the releases

This can be downloaded as local mbtiles by running the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/ramSeraph/opendata.git
cd opendata/maps/SOI/
pip install pmtiles==3.2.0 mercantile==1.2.1 requests==2.30.0
python download_as_mbtiles.py

This creates a file soi.mbtiles in the current directory containing the whole data.

The process requires a disk space of around 20GB and will download around 10GB from the internet.

Web

• Tile URL
  • https://soi.fly.dev/export/tiles/{z}/{x}/{y}.webp
• Demo Page
  • DEMO of the tilemap

JOSM

• Plugins needed to use the above tile url with JOSM
  • ramSeraph/josm-webp-plugin
• A locally downloaded soi.mbtiles file can also be used by installing the following plugins and opening the file in JOSM.
  • ramSeraph/josm-webp-plugin
  • iandees/josm-mbtiles

Appendix

• Notes on the what was done to get the data in the present form and possible problems.
• Original sheet grid shapefile
• Modified Index geojson for the sheet grid