GeoChart: Display Subcontinent, Resolution Countries: Possibity to highlight nearby countries

[orwant]

Hello everyone!

I ran into a strange problem. I think before this last update, it was not like this.
I am trying to create a map of the Middle East, that includes countries from Western
Asia and North Africa.

When I choose to display the region of Western Asia, is perfect, since it shows the
nearby countries, from north africa that I need.
But.. only the data from Western Asia countries that I include gets rendered. Actually
the nearby countries out of WA, assume the 'subcontinents' resolution.

In my opinion we should be able to include data from nearby regions that are outside
the region we choose to display, since with Markers it works.

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by carlostrickster on 2012-10-07 16:37:40

[orwant]

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by grabks@google.com on 2013-03-20 00:05:56

[orwant]

in the map of europe, there are not all countries who are a member of the european union.
cyprus is not on region 150 but should be.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by orthelius on 2013-07-26 23:40:55

[orwant]

From what I understand, the real problem here is that the neighboring regions are always
at the resolution of the focused region, and not at the resolution specified. For example,
if you focus on region '150', and give it resolution of 'countries', all the countries
not included in '150' will be grouped to their continent. If you specified the 'countries'
resolution, this behavior may come as a surprise. This is a known issue, and will be
fixed as soon as the opportunity arises.

I think orthelius is talking about a different issue, however. Specifying region '150'
doesn't mean that you get all the countries included in the European Union. Those regions
are defined here: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm

As you can see by the website above, Cuprus is in region 145, Western Asia. It is not
a mistake that it's not included in region 150. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by grabks@google.com on 2013-07-29 13:47:29

[orwant]

I need this exact same feature. I need to be able to highlight Egypt together with other
Middle East countries when viewing Western Asia (145), as well as highlight the US
in the the Central America (013). Is there a fix due for this any time soon?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by espen.almdahl@hyper.no on 2014-06-20 11:39:46

[orwant]

Any progress on this? 
It's been almost a year since the 'Satus: Accepted' :)
It would be a great improvement to the maps. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by cmoreira.wp on 2014-07-13 17:30:43

[BuenGenio]

I need to highlight all countries when hovering over "Europe" (150), not just Russia, or Spain... Is this really that hard?

[michimau]

Indeed I support the idea of "extensible country groups". In many cases a group in not enough and need to be extended some how. In my case, I need to show data for Turkey, Cyprus and Norway as well along 150's. Definition of area of interest would be perfect or, perhaps, an array of values among the predefined list would do? i.e. region ['150', 'TR'...'] with the zoom set to the computed minimum bounding box.

Another remark would be on the fact that Sweden, Finland and Norway are not showed completely. This is already GREAT tool and with such usability adjustments, it would become just perfect in many contexts :)

[NehaTelhan]

It's been 1.5+ years since the last conversation on this thread. Has there been any progress or intention to move forward with adding the ability to include data from nearby regions that are outside the region we choose to display?

Visualizations like these are becoming more popular these days but need to be customizable to stay relevant!

[homj]

We're also facing this issue. We'd like to display a map of the EU and therefore need to display data for e.g. Cyprus as well