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A shapefile of Time Zones originally maintained by http://efele.net/maps/tz/world/
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Update for 2014f #1

Open blakecrosby opened 10 years ago

blakecrosby commented 10 years ago

Two new Zones in Russia:

https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/3962fae49c5294f0ce79353632a93b5a1db206f6/europe#L2557

and

https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/3962fae49c5294f0ce79353632a93b5a1db206f6/europe#L2704

@timparenti I'm trying to find a shape file of Russia that I can base these zones from (that include all the Oblasts, etc..) do you know where I could get one?

timparenti commented 10 years ago

I don't personally know of any good sources for such shapefiles, unfortunately. For what it's worth, Eric Muller's tz shapefile for Russia http://efele.net/maps/tz/russia/ says "[t]he geometries are entirely derived from the rusray shapefile created by Alexander Perepechko and Dmitry Sharkov and offered by WAGDA http://wagda.lib.washington.edu/DATA/geography/world/russia/download.html", but that seems to be behind a login.

First-level subdivisions (known collectively as "federal subjects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_subjects_of_Russia") are what you need in most cases. You would also need some second-level subdivisions within Sakha Republic and Sakhalin Oblast.

Tim Parenti

On 19 August 2014 02:53, Blake Crosby notifications@github.com wrote:

Two new Zones in Russia:

https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/3962fae49c5294f0ce79353632a93b5a1db206f6/europe#L2557

and

https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/3962fae49c5294f0ce79353632a93b5a1db206f6/europe#L2704

@timparenti https://github.com/timparenti I'm trying to find a shape file of Russia that I can base these zones from (that include all the Oblasts, etc..) do you know where I could get one?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/blakecrosby/tz-map/issues/1.

blakecrosby commented 10 years ago

@timparenti Thanks for replying. Yup, I already have an email out to Eric. So I will wait for him to reply.

timparenti commented 10 years ago

I'm interested in the source material, too, so do follow up here as well!

Tim Parenti

On 19 August 2014 15:52, Blake Crosby notifications@github.com wrote:

@timparenti https://github.com/timparenti Thanks for replying. Yup, I already have an email out to Eric. So I will wait for him to reply.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/blakecrosby/tz-map/issues/1#issuecomment-52689033.

blakecrosby commented 10 years ago

I came across: http://gis-lab.info/qa/osm-adm.html

Which might be useful. Will wait a little longer to hear back from Eric

blakecrosby commented 10 years ago

@timparenti Haven't heard back from Eric yet :/ So going to try to find an alternative source.

timparenti commented 10 years ago

FYI, I just responded to a similar inquiry on the tz mailing list.

http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2014-October/021750.html

Tim Parenti

On 24 August 2014 22:44, Blake Crosby notifications@github.com wrote:

@timparenti https://github.com/timparenti Haven't heard back from Eric yet :/ So going to try to find an alternative source.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/blakecrosby/tz-map/issues/1#issuecomment-53222204.

timparenti commented 10 years ago

From Jim Marvel http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2014-October/021753.html, see http://www.gadm.org/country.

In particular, the RUS_adm2.* files in http://biogeo.ucdavis.edu/data/gadm2/shp/RUS_adm.zip should suffice for these purposes.