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That's nice, but quite buggy. "Cape town" appears in South Sudan, though the country is not named. Erythrea is also missing its name. And there are 2 Somalia bl
by idoubtit 2y ago
That's nice, but quite buggy. "Cape town" appears in South Sudan, though the country is not named. Erythrea is also missing its name. And there are 2 Somalia blocks, with different colors.
My own experience is that it's rather easy to draw a light map and deal with i18n. There are several open data sources and libraries. The hard problem is purely administrative. If you have data tied to most countries, there's certainly a mismatch with your source for a map, and you have to build a custom map yourself.
There is no consensus on what a country is. A few examples of divergences: Western Sahara is officially a country, but practically it's always been occupied by Morocco. Somalia is a mess, with Somaliland and Puntland being de facto independant coutries though noone acknoledge them officially. Between these two categories, Greenland, Nue and a few others are not fully independant.
- wongarsu 2y ago> 2 Somalia blocks, with different colors The western one should be Somaliland, as you mention. The map seems to take the duck-typing approach to countries, rather than taking the official stance of any one country. There's Somaliland, Taiwan, Kosovo, Cyprus, Israel and Palestine, etc. No Northern Cyprus though.
- _ache_ 2y agoI tried to use only UN approved names. « Somaliland » isn't on unterm.un.org, it's why there is two Somalia. I'm pretty sure that Eritrea isn't on the map because of a display bug. Definitively, if you are making a map, your have to make geopolitical chooses. And yes, I have edited NE data to highlight the geopolitical choices that I think are the simplest to defend.