Automatizing the Khasra Maps Generation Process Using Open Source Software: QGIS and Python Coding Language

Abstract

Humans are trying to acquire a piece of land from the time they have come into existence. In modern era, the management of land and its ownership is taken up by the Land and Revenue Department of the State. In order to do that, they need maps with specific objectives, so that even a laymen can understand and use it. The process explained in this paper automate the process of map making after getting the digitized shapefile of the khasra (property identification number), as a single village is divided into numerous grids and it is a tedious work and can have lots of errors while doing it manually. So in order to do the process in swift manner and without having any errors, the process was developed using the Quantum Geographic Information System (QGIS) and Python. The proposed method involves making the use of models built in QGIS along with the Python console. It helps to run the whole process on its own with taking the required input parameters and storing the outputs in a specific folder designed for them. The requirement of the project was to do the same operations on a village file and to get the final khasra map from the village polygon file. Depending upon the village area and its dimensions, the numbers of grids for a particular village is decided and the same GIS tools need to be run on each grid files which make this process a tedious work and more prone to errors. By making use of the method suggested in the paper, all the work can be done error proof with the use of Python. The use of Python code helps to do work in just couple of seconds which would have taken days to complete. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.