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gavinr / world-countries-centroids

Center points of world countries - CSV and GeoJSON
https://gavinr.github.io/geojson-viewer/?url=https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/gavinr/world-countries-centroids@v1/dist/countries.geojson
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Problems with some centroids #5

Closed SalmaSabour closed 2 years ago

SalmaSabour commented 2 years ago

Hi Gavin, Thank you for providing the data, it is really helpful.

Some of the centroids (such as US-US) are not situated in the middle of the land but on the ocean which could cause problems for visualization.

Thanks again, Kindly, Salma

gavinr commented 2 years ago

Hi, thank you for the feedback. The reason these are at odd locations is because they are the true centroid. And for cases like the USA, Alaska pulls the point northwest.

I intend to resolve this issue by changing the points to be the centroid of the largest landmass under issue #3.