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India Geoportal Catalog

One place to find India's public geospatial data. It gathers hundreds of scattered government, research and commercial portals — Bhuvan, India-WRIS, Survey of India, the state SDIs and many more — so you can search by place or by theme and go straight to the source. Filter once and every view below updates together. The catalog is a signpost, not a store: it does not host the data, it points you to the portal that does.

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Datasets by state

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Small states & union territories — hard to hit on the map

Reading the map

Colour scale & caveats

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Records whose coverage is national, multi-state or global aren't attributable to a single state and so aren't shaded here; they still count in the KPIs and the coverage assessment. The breakdown above the map states exactly how many, and why.

Top coverage areas

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Geoportal assessment

Scored on the report's assessment parameters — click a portal to drill in

How scores are computed

Disclaimer: this assessment is derived solely from the assessment parameters identified in the Takshashila report State of India's Geospatial Portal (2025-26.) — download capability, open & free access, GIS-ready formats, data recency, API & web services, and link reliability — weighted to reflect the report's emphasis (25 / 20 / 15 / 15 / 15 / 10). Scores are recomputed from the cataloged records currently in view; fields recorded as “Not specified” are excluded from a portal's score rather than assumed. This is not a general quality judgement of any portal beyond what is cataloged here.

About this portal

What this portal can do — and what it cannot

584 datasets from across India, cross-referenced against Takshashila's portal assessment. Use it to discover what public geospatial data exists for a place or a theme — then follow the link to the source.

+ What it helps you do

  • Find geospatial datasets for a state, Union Territory or region.
  • Explore data by theme — water, land records, forests, disaster, urban and more.
  • See who runs each portal and how open the access is.
  • Compare portals on the assessment parameters from the Takshashila report.
  • Go straight to the agency's own page for each dataset.

– What it does not do

  • It does not host or store the data — it is a discovery layer that links out.
  • It is not licence clearance — always check the terms at the source.
  • A link points you to the right place; it is not a guarantee of a dataset's contents.
  • It does not cover private, restricted or unpublished datasets.
New to the categories? The classification guide explains every label used here — provider type, scope, coverage, themes, access, licence and confidence — in plain language. Explore the classification guide →

How the catalog is organised

01This is a discovery layer, not a data host. Nothing is re-served here; every record links out to the agency's own portal, and the agency's terms govern.
02Licence is the field most likely to mislead you. Categories are classified from freetext in the source survey; where the evidence was thin the record reads Unclassified. Never treat this catalog as licence clearance — open the source and check.
03Coverage and themes are normalised from freetext. Anything unresolvable is grouped as Unclassified rather than minting a one-record category, and the original fine-grained theme stays on every card and in the sub-theme filter.
04Provider Type is four fixed values — Government & PSU, Scientific Institutions, Commercial Providers, NGOs & Intl Orgs — and answers who runs the portal, not what it covers. A new source is always mapped to the closest of the four rather than given a new sector.
05Scope & Coverage are two different questions. Scope is India vs. Global — Global only when an international source has a confirmed India-specific deep link, never a generic global homepage. Coverage Tier then runs National → State → Union Territory → Multi-state/thematic → Regional/global.
06Theme vs. Theme Group. Theme is fine-grained and kept close to the source's own wording (100+ values); every Theme rolls up to one of 16 fixed Theme Groups, which is what the filter chips and map actually use. New sources are matched to an existing group rather than minting a new one.
07Access Tier vs. Licence Category. Access Tier is the practical gate you hit — Open/Free, Free (Restricted), Free (Academic), Mixed, Paid, Not specified. Licence Category is the legal terms, auto-classified from the source's own licence text by a fixed set of pattern rules, not judged case by case.
08Confidence, precisely. Verified means a human has personally opened the URL this session and confirmed it shows the described dataset — never just a claim from the source. Representative is the default, expected state for most records, not a quality deficiency.

Who is this for

Who should use this portal?

If you are trying to find geospatial data about India, this is for you. Two simple ways in: search by place (a state or region) or by theme (a subject like water or land records).

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People looking for data

Anyone who wants to discover datasets or portals for a particular area. Open the map, pick your state or region, and see what's available.

02

Researchers

Looking for a specific subject? Filter by theme — water, land records, forests, disaster, urban and more — to reach the right source quickly.

03

Government agencies

Explore datasets relevant to a department's area or theme of interest, and see how portals compare on the assessment parameters.

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Not sure what you need?

You don't have to know the exact dataset, portal or source. Browse by place or by theme, and let the catalog show you the options.

Plain-language help

Glossary

Short, plain explanations of the technical terms you'll meet in the catalog. Open it whenever a label isn't clear.

Common terms explained Tap to open
WMS
A web service that lets you view a map layer online. It does not necessarily mean the underlying data can be downloaded.
WFS
A web service that serves the actual map features (points, lines and shapes), which can usually be loaded into GIS software.
API
A way for software to request data directly from a portal, instead of downloading files by hand.
OGC
Open standards (such as WMS and WFS) that let different mapping tools read the same map services.
Raster
Grid-based data made of pixels — for example a satellite image or an elevation surface.
Vector
Data made of points, lines and shapes — for example roads, boundaries or well locations.
Shapefile
A common file format for vector map data, widely supported by GIS software.
GeoTIFF
A raster image that carries its map location, so it lines up correctly on a map.
Metadata
Information about a dataset — what it covers, when it was made and by whom — rather than the data itself.
Licence
The terms that say how you may use a dataset. Always check it at the source before reuse.
GODL / NDSAP
India's open-government-data terms — the Government Open Data Licence and the National Data Sharing & Accessibility Policy.
Coverage
The geographic area a dataset spans — a state, a Union Territory, all of India, or a wider region.
Scope
Whether a source is India-specific, or a global source reached through a confirmed India-specific link.
Theme
The subject of a dataset, such as water or land records. Fine-grained themes roll up into 16 broad Theme Groups.
Access Tier
How open a portal is in practice — from Open/Free to Free (Restricted), Free (Academic), Mixed or Paid.
Confidence
How sure we are that a link goes to the exact dataset. Direct link is human-checked; Portal means it opens the agency's site, where you navigate to the data.

Credits

Contributors

This catalog was compiled and built by:

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Raina Sharma
02
Gopal Tomar
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Dr Y. Nithiyanandam