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georgique / world-geojson

GeoJson for all the countries, areas (regions) and some states.
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Data Source and License #1

Closed CImrie closed 6 years ago

CImrie commented 6 years ago

Hey! Fantastic job on this project!

I am building a project where I need specific regions (mainland Spain excluding The Canary Islands for example) and this looks like it might be exactly what I'm after. I just have a few questions:

  1. What's the license? Is it MIT?
  2. Can you reveal the original data source?
  3. How did you produce the split regions? (If there are any missing then I would want to use a similar technique/tools and contribute them back to the repository).

Thanks in advance :)

georgique commented 6 years ago

Hey there! Thanks you so much for kind feedback!

  1. License is Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 - check it here
  2. Well, it is all manually made, this is original data source already.
  3. I used geojson.io service and just did everything manually. However, I didn't like that I draw most of borders twice, so lately I started to manually copy past shared border pieces from one region/country to another. But that's tricky, you have to work with raw Geojson. I still haven't developed a nice and effective technique for this. Looking forward to your contribution anyways, and please let me know if you have any questions.