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All sorts of useful information about every country packaged as convenient little country objects. It includes data from ISO 3166 (countries and states/subdivisions ), ISO 4217 (currency), and E.164 (phone numbers).
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Support for historical countries? #671

Open jesperronn opened 3 years ago

jesperronn commented 3 years ago

Thanks for this gem. It looks really useful.

Do you have any plans to add historical countries as well to this list, for instance Czechoslovakia or ex Yugoslavia, or ex Soviet union?

If not, what are the plans going forward if a country splits or dissolves in the future?

rposborne commented 3 years ago

So far we have simply not modeled historical data, I don't think it's an unreasonable request and most likely be solved with tracking a "dissolved_on" value.

Historically we delete these records.