Major Links this week!

• 7 Challenges to Government Innovation by Nagaragan
• Rail Radar was launched! – Rail Radar allows you to live track your train, and see whether it is delayed or not. (via Pravin)
• Bangalore Urban Mapping Project – is a project that aims to map major indicators about the Bangalore city.
• Tactical Tech Animated Film – a short about the Land Matrix. (via Maya)
• Population Pyramid– Visualization around population. (via Vaibhav)

Projects

• Instagram Post Box Project – Help map Indian postboxes using Instagram
• Open Bangalore – Repository of open data for Bangalore.

Mentions of Open Data

• The Hindu – Government Portal Set to Take Off by T. Ramachandran
• OKFN posts a great roundup of all the open data projects they visited in India.

Events:

• JS Foo – Conference dedicated to JavaScript
• NIAS Data Workshop every Monday.

Questions of the week

I was wondering whether there exists a mapping of PIN Codes to MP/MLA/Corporator constituencies/wards, please? Also, if a similar mapping exists to districts/taluks etc.?  – vis Gautam John