Closed almccon closed 8 years ago
Hmm. Actually, this appears to be the correct original spelling.
I don't particularly want to adapt the code to change the names of counties over time... but now I wonder how widespread this might be. How many other counties might have changed names in their history?
Quickest (but wrongest) solution is to change the names in the database.
Second quickest (but less wrong) is to make sure we choose the most recent name of a county, instead of the first name. This name must be coming from a lookup someplace where we join the nhgis_join
ID with a table that contains county names. This would mean that all counties would show their present-day name, even if you scrub back into the past to a point where the county might have had a different name.
Least quick solution is for the code to know what each county's name is for each year, which adds complexity and would involve a (small?) performance hit.
I did the quickest solution.
Frezno is wrong.