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Developer maps 78,000 Indian villages with live market data and soil info
An open-source tool called Village Finder indexes over 78,000 villages across four Indian states, offering interactive maps with live market prices, soil data, and government schemes. The project runs on zero server costs using GitHub Actions and PMTiles for vector streaming. It supports six languages and includes fuzzy search by PIN code.
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The engineering approach—using GitHub as a free CDN and PMTiles for vector data—is more notable than the rural data itself, which is already publicly available but scattered.
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