DataMeet

Name

DataMeet

Legal name

DataMeet

Website

https://datameet.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

DataMeet is a volunteer-driven Indian community of data science and open data enthusiasts, organized across five city chapters, that produces open-source datasets and tools — including the static-GTFS-manager — for civic-tech, transit, and GIS use cases.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Open Data Community & Open Source Geospatial Tools

NAICS

Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (5192), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Data Sharing, Data Exchange & Data Marketplace Platforms (HDAEABAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Data Science & Analytics (Data Literacy, SQL, Visualization) (EDAMACAF), Data Platforms & Modern Data Stack Services (Lakehouse, DW, MDM) (BPAEAHAC)

Keywords

• Open data community
• Data science tools
• GIS mapping datasets
• Open source transit data
• Geospatial visualization

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Community/Non-profit Model: DataMeet operates as a volunteer-driven community organization without a commercial revenue model. All work is shared under liberal open-source and Creative Commons licenses. The organization does not appear to charge for products, services, or memberships. Activities are funded through volunteer contributions and partnerships with organizations like WRI for specific projects.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

DataMeet is a volunteer-driven community of Data Science and Open Data enthusiasts that builds and freely shares open-source tools, open datasets, and data visualizations focused on Indian geographic, election, and transit data. It operates through local chapters in major Indian cities that host meetups, workshops, and hackathons, and distributes all outputs under open licenses (CC BY-SA 2.0, GNU GPL v3, ODbL).

Product overview

DataMeet is an Indian community of Data Science and Open Data enthusiasts that produces and shares open data tools, datasets, and visualizations. Their primary offerings include the static-GTFS-manager tool for transit agencies to create and publish GTFS feeds, along with open datasets of Indian village boundaries, assembly/parliamentary constituency maps, and election data. All community outputs are shared under liberal open licenses (CC BY-SA 2.0 for content, GNU GPL v3 for code, ODbL for data).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• GeoBLR: Bangalore-based geospatial/mapping community group
• GeoDel
• Open Data Camp

Products and services

• static-GTFS-manager Browser-based Python 3 application with a graphical user interface that enables transit agencies to design, edit, and publish General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) feeds from scratch or update existing feeds, with support for integrating bus and ferry routes. Targets transit agencies and civic technologists building standardized public transport datasets.
• Know Your MP Visualization Interactive choropleth map visualization of Indian parliamentary constituencies that displays criminal cases, assets, and liabilities of elected MPs based on Election Commission affidavit data, built using D3.js and GeoJSON maps.
• Indian Village Boundaries Dataset Open dataset of Indian village boundaries organized by state using state ISO codes, available in GeoJSON (WGS84, EPSG4326) format under ODbL. Used by researchers, journalists, activists, and mapping professionals for Indian GIS work.
• India Maps Repository Collection of open maps of India including assembly constituencies, parliamentary constituencies, states, districts, and municipalities in shapefile and GeoJSON formats, shared under ODbL.
• India Election Data Comprehensive historical election results data for India, including assembly election results by constituency, used for analysis and visualization projects.
• BMTC Bus Network Analysis Analysis and visualization of Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) bus network data including routes, frequency, coverage, reachability, and redundancy metrics.

Quantifiable outcome

• India's first transit agency (Kochi Metro) to publish static GTFS feed as open data
• +1 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Kochi Metro Rail Ltd (KMRL)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 March 2018DataMeet member Nikhil VJ collaborated with KMRL to convert their scheduling data to the global static GTFS standard format. KMRL became India's first transit agency to publish static GTFS feed as open data on March 17, 2018. DataMeet continues to support KMRL in maintaining and updating their GTFS feeds as the network grows.
• World Resources Institute (WRI)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 April 2017WRI India partnered with DataMeet on a project to convert Kochi Metro's transit data to GTFS format and develop the static-GTFS-manager tool. Vishal from WRI coordinated the project and ensured the work was open-sourced. WRI funded and supported the development of tools for transit data standardization in India.
• Survey of IndiaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDataMeet engaged with Survey of India regarding their Nakshe portal launch, submitting recommendations for improving the map sharing portal. DataMeet advocated for more open and user-friendly access to government mapping data.
• Karnataka Learning Partnership (KLP)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDataMeet community members collaborated on rebuilding the KLP platform and contributed to school mapping initiatives. The KLP platform uses DataMeet's constituency and geographic boundary data.
• Centre for Internet and Society (CIS)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCIS and DataMeet co-facilitated the Open Data for Human Development Workshop in Bangalore and collaborated on various open data policy initiatives including Sikkim's open data policy implementation.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• DataKind: Global nonprofit community of data scientists applying skills to social sector projects — closely comparable volunteer-driven data-for-good community model with similar event-based engagement and project-based collaboration.
• Open Data Institute: Nonprofit founded to advocate for open data innovation and build trustworthy data ecosystems — comparable in its open-data advocacy, training programs, and policy engagement (e.g., Sikkim's open data policy work via CIS).
• Code for America: Civic-tech community that convenes technologists and data enthusiasts to build open tools and advocate for open government data — directly analogous to DataMeet's volunteer-driven, open-data advocacy model and event-based engagement strategy.
• Sunlight Foundation: US-based nonprofit focused on government transparency, open legislative/electoral data, and civic tech — comparable to DataMeet's election affidavit visualization (Know Your MP) and government data advocacy (Survey of India).
• Open Knowledge Foundation: Global open data advocacy organization that promotes open data publication, open standards, and community-driven data initiatives — directly comparable to DataMeet's mission of curating and publishing open Indian datasets and tooling.
• OpenStreetMap Foundation: Global open mapping community with active India chapter; both maintain community-contributed geospatial open data (villages, boundaries, infrastructure) under permissive licenses and host local mapping events comparable to DataMeet's GeoBLR/GeoDel chapters.

Broad incumbents

• Mapbox: Commercial mapping platform that builds on and competes with open geospatial data; operates a much broader commercial product portfolio overlapping with DataMeet's village-boundary, constituency, and election mapping products.

Regional players

• Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India: Government-operated open data portal for India publishing central and state datasets — overlaps with DataMeet's mission of curating and distributing open Indian data but operates as a formal government initiative rather than a volunteer community.

Others

• WRI India: Strategic partner of DataMeet (since 2017) that funds and coordinates transit data projects; adjacent as an institutional funder and collaborator in civic data rather than a direct competitor.

Emerging players

• Civic Innovation Lab / CivicDataLab: India-based civic-tech organization that uses open data, GIS, and visualization to support governance and advocacy — closely comparable to DataMeet in geography, tooling stack (open source, QGIS, GeoJSON), and civic-tech focus.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/datameet
• GitHubgithub.com/datameet

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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Investments

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