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dhmit's spring 2020 project - Democracy and Development: Perspectives from Africa
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Fix 'seams' in some geometries in the GeoJSON #33

Open ryaanahmed opened 4 years ago

ryaanahmed commented 4 years ago

Follow on work from #31 -- see @JasonLin43212 's remarks there about a visible seam between Somaliland and Somalia. This probably needs manual intervention.

mscuthbert commented 4 years ago

We should consult @evanlieb on this, but my sense is that the US Government doesn't recognize Somaliland as separate from Somalia. So for political reasons we should stick with keeping it in Somalia.

(Wikipedia says no other country recognizes its independence)

evanlieb commented 4 years ago

correct - no need to break out Somaliland in anything we do

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We should consult @evanlieb https://github.com/evanlieb on this, but my sense is that the US Government doesn't recognize Somaliland as separate from Somalia. So for political reasons we should stick with keeping it in Somalia.

(Wikipedia says no other country recognizes its independence)

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ryaanahmed commented 4 years ago

Yep, that's what we figured. The geometries we're using have it as a separate piece, so we've merged it with Somalia. This issue is just about removing the resulting 'seam' between the two pieces in the geometries.