Villages in Andhra Pradesh

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Rural habitations in AP

While efforts to map villages started in 2007, large scale mapping picked up speed in 2019 with the availability of Bhuvan. In 2024, addition of Telugu labels with simultaneous wikidata/wikipedia id's helped improve the mapping accuracy. In 2025, additional focus on quality assurance using PMGSY data, helped improve the count of villages with wikidata, Telugu name to about 13000, which is close to the number of gram panchyats or revenue villages. Further work is needed to improve the quality assurance of hamlets inside gram panchayat, which to a large extent are already mapped. These number 26000 or two times that of villages in number.

Tagging

for Revenue village (RV)

node

  • place= village | hamlet
  • name=
  • source=PMGSY
  • ref=PMGSY:<ID>

way/relation

As of Nov 2025, this is used for revenue villages without a habitation with the same name and also for some revenue villages. OT query

  • place= village | hamlet
  • name=
  • source=Bharat maps |APGIS
  • type=boundary
  • boundary=administrative
  • admin_level= 9

For gram panchayat

way or relation

  • name=
  • source=LGD
  • ref=LGD:<LGD ID>
  • type= boundary
  • boundary=local authority
  • local_authority:IN=gram_panchayat
  • admin_level= 10

Status

Places

A total of 1994 places were tagged with Wikidata and Telugu label as of 15 Nov 2025 from the earier initiative which ended in May 2024, making the total to 13356. Out of this 13031 are tagged village/hamlet. For comparison there are 16001 census 2011 villages with non zero population on Wikidata with Telugu Wikipedia pages(Wikidata query).

All named places including cities, towns, villages, neighbourhoods etc,(OT query)

Statistics

Total: 35,799

  • Nodes: 35,643
  • Ways: 150
  • Relations: 6

Places which use PMGSY as source (OT query ) (240 as on 2025-12-11)


wikidata dist_name total nodes ways relations
Q15213 Chittoor 2830 2830 0 0
Q15381 Kurnool 797 796 1 0
Q15212 Anantapur 1102 1102 0 0
Q110714863 Sri Sathya Sai 1843 1834 9 0
Q15390 Prakasam district 1713 1713 0 0
Q15342 YSR district 1446 1438 8 0
Q110714861 Nandyal 722 722 0 0
Q110714854 Annamayya 3101 3101 0 0
Q110714853 Tirupati 2109 2101 6 2
Q15383 Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore district 1875 1872 3 0
Q110714862 Palnadu 751 746 4 1
Q15341 Guntur 434 428 5 1
Q110876712 Bapatla 789 789 0 0
Q15404 West Godavari 711 711 0 0
Q15382 Krishna 986 986 0 0
Q110714859 Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Konaseema 628 625 2 1
Q110876763 NTR 517 507 9 1
Q15338 East Godavari 425 401 24 0
Q110714851 Eluru district 1310 1242 68 0
Q15395 Srikakulam district 2420 2419 1 0
Q110714856 Parvathipuram Manyam 1382 1381 1 0
Q110714850 Alluri Sitharama Raju 4001 3997 4 0
Q110714860 Kakinada 668 668 0 0
Q15392 Vizianagaram district 1428 1427 1 0
Q110714857 Anakapalli 1212 1212 0 0
Q15394 Visakhapatnam 599 595 4 0

Land use mapping

As per OT query, residential land use mapping is remaining only for 1500 nodes out of 35643 total nodes on 12 Nov 2025.(Telegram message link) This does not mean that entire residential use is done. It means that at least one residential land use surrounding the node is done.

Quality Assurance

Regular quality assurance is needed to maintain the quality of data. Main tasks consist of

  • Review fixme notices
  • Check Osmose issues
  • Resolve stale wikidata
  • Deduplication of Wikidata on villages
  • Adding Telugu names for villages
  • Resolving discrepancy in OSM village location when compared with wikidata location
  • Corrective action for placeholder for villages
  • Unifying more than one osm entity for same habitation

Details of the first such maintenance initiative taken up in Oct-Nov 2025 can be seen on talk page.

Noticeable errors in PMGSY data

Habitations Source downloaded on 1 Jun 2024 from https://geosadak-pmgsy.nic.in/OpenData/Index Assessment based on adding 200 PMGSY id to OSM, while verifying nearness to existing location on OSM and also check using satellite data

  • Tarlabylu (1047040) off by 1.6 Km https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/708892904
  • Devarapalli village near Parchur (824713), Bapatla district is missing in PMGSY.
  • Laxmipuram (624451) Lakshmipuram (1244389) are really one habitation assigned dual codes. OSM location is off by around 300 metres, which was corrected to the first one.
  • Santhamaguluru(952342) and Pathamaguluru(836131) names swapped.
  • Janukuntapalle(454319) is part of same Cheekalubylu (212572) habitation as of 2025 but shown differently (2019 data capture status?)

TO DO

  • Fix placeholders for villages by adding names from Karmamaps data with PMGSY ID or replacing the node with a way representing boundary of residential area surrounding it. (OT query for visualising the villages/hamlet nodes without name around 740 as of Nov 2025)
  • Add residential land use for nodes represented as village or hamlet (about 1500) as of 12 Nov 2025 (OT Query)
  • Verify accuracy of places represented as nodes by comparing with panchayat hq data provided as part of PMGSY open data set released in 2022.(around 12000)
  • Panchayat boundary mapping from LGD maps data. (Telegram discussion 12 Nov 2025) This will enable adding habitation as head quarters of panchayats and will help in further improving the maps around panchayat HQ as initial step towards improving mapping for rural areas. (around 13000)
  • Use Karmamaps release for habitation location accuracy check and also for tagging WOF unique identifier for future maintainability. (karmashapes release Who’s On First blog , dated 19 June 2023)
  • Locate more than one node representing same habitation (with probably similar sounding name or same name) and unify the same.
  • Several neighbourhoods are mapped as villages by some users, need to change. Example SR Colony, Raganapalem in Chilakaluripet OT query

Scripts/Sub pages

Resources

See also

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