Navigating government data platforms to extract precise administrative boundaries or village-level coordinates is notoriously difficult. Developers and researchers are often met with fragmented datasets, fragile APIs, slow load times, and anti-bot measures.
To bridge this gap, we built Village Finder—a fully open-source, interactive geospatial platform covering Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu.
What makes this project unique is its architecture. It manages structural data for over 68,000 villages, hosts fluid visual map layers, streams individual cadastral land parcels, handles multi-language transliteration, updates daily—and operates with exactly zero server or infrastructure costs.
Here is a deep dive into how we engineered a highly scalable, serverless civic-tech application using a modern static web stack.
[ data.gov.in API ] ──(Daily GitHub Action)──> [ Python Pipeline & Pytest ]
