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How to Use Shape Files to Cover Elections

In the past six seven years there's been a lot of changes and things that have gone into it. But primarily to get to the basics why we do this right. So these are regular steps which we do with maps which I also I think we have been doing for over six seven years now. And that's how we started looking at elections from a geographic viewpoint right or geographic information systems viewpoint We want just survey information right. The open data community in India had already helped source shape files these are basically the constituency maps and released it for you know anyone to work on it for free but a decade ago this was not available for free only certain companies had access to assembly constituency shape files or poly

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