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Singapore is listed within Malaysia? #87

Open MaddySL opened 5 months ago

MaddySL commented 5 months ago

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dtreich-itdp commented 5 months ago

@kauebraga This is a common problem with urban agglomerations that cross international borders (Singapore, San Diego / Tijuana, Jerusalem, Ciudad Del Este, Lome, and several others) -- they're only listed under one of the two countries, and I'm not sure how it's determined which country they're listed under.

I can think of two possible ways to handle this: A: For agglomerations that straddle borders, we list them under a different country sub-header. This could either be (A1) --[Cross-border agglomerations] ----Singapore ----Tijuana ----Mexicali or (A2) --Malaysia / Singapore ----Singapore --USA / Mexico ----Tijuana ----Mexicali

B: Would it be possible to list these cross-border agglomerations under both countries in the drop-down? So in this case, there would be --Malaysia ----Singapore --Singapore ----Singapore

I'm leaning toward option A1. It seems the most clear and transparent, but is also a little wonkier. What do you think?

I'm happy to provide more metadata to help with this.

kauebraga commented 4 months ago

Regardless if they cross border with two countries, they still belong to only one country. Is that correct? In that case, I would be more in favor of manually (or not, if you can determine with each country they intersect more) assigning those cities with their official country. Singapore to Singapore, Mexicali to Mexico, Ciudad Del Este to Paraguay.

If we go from the options you proposed, I like A2 more! But from my side it has no impact as long as the country is assigned in the countries data.