missing countries

[ClaraIV]

The first issue we ever discussed was adding the missing countries to the platform. I just searched for the US and Russia and they are missing - can you please provide an update on this? This is part of the TOR and was the starting point of the entire effort.

[NEDJIMAbelgacem]

The missing countries have been added back. It was a merge problem and the countries were disabled by accident..

[ClaraIV]

@NEDJIMAbelgacem there is strange behavior with some of the newly added countries. For example, with Fiji -> I had to do the country selection several times for my selection to stick; I was getting the screen below, as I do for Kiribati, after country and resource selection; the country selection doesnt stay on

Please test this internally for the following countries before submitting - I am turning it back for revision; please try running the tool when testing, not only searching the country catalog.

Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Niue Tuvalu

[ClaraIV]

this must be a bug in the tool as I am not getting the same behavior for all countries..

[dimasciput]

@akshay2408 can you address this ticket? Or do you need my help?

[dimasciput]

@akshay2408 it seems that the error is with the api : /v1/filter/KIR/solar/layers. I got 500 error code.

[LunaAsefaw]

Countries are still missing so I have moved this to 'to-do', I will upload the list of missing countries soon

[LunaAsefaw]

@akshay2408 Countries from GADM 4.0 that are missing from the site: Akrotiri and Dhekelia Aksai Chin Åland Arunachal Pradesh Azad Kashmir Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba Clipperton Island Côte d'Ivoire Jammu and Kashmir Kaurik Kosovo Kyrgyzstan Lapthal North Macedonia Northern Cyprus Pa-li-chia-ssu Paracel Islands Sang São Tomé and Príncipe Shaksgam Valley Spratly Islands Vatican City

[ClaraIV]

Thank you very much @LunaAsefaw for the list. Let us please focus on adding the following countries for this version of the app - some of them (disputed territories) might need to undergo clearance from our Cartography Unit.

Côte d'Ivoire Kosovo Kyrgyzstan São Tomé and Príncipe

[LunaAsefaw]

Thank you @ClaraIV Perfect, @akshay2408 please note the comment above

[LunaAsefaw]

@ClaraIV The missing countries are added, Kosovo has been fixed. However we do not have EEZ data for the missing countries, I know Kosovo is landlocked so it might not apply to it but São Tomé and Príncipe would have offshore data so we are not sure where the EEZ data is obtained from, Belgacem was in charge of that. Did you provide us with the EEZ geojson/topojson file? If so, may we please have it for the newly added countries.

[ClaraIV]

hi @LunaAsefaw the EEZ borders come from this global dataset: https://marineregions.org/downloads.php

[ClaraIV]

hi @LunaAsefaw , I was testing some of the newly added countries, just ran the below analysis for Fiji and I get conflicting results, please see + no error message:

[LunaAsefaw]

Tuvalu, Tokelau and United States Minor Outlying Islands are on the system but their geometry is missing @dimasciput

[gclapp1]

The four countries we discussed (i) Côte d'Ivoire, (ii) Kosovo, (ii) Kyrgyzstan, (iv) São Tomé and Príncipe all work.

The three countries mentioned in Luna's comment above (Tuvalu, Tokelau and United States Minor Outlying Islands) still do not have available data.

We had discussed using Administrative Boundaries for the U.S but I don't see that as an option though the 25KM and 50 KM zone generation seems to work, it just takes awhile.

Can discuss those as separate issues and closing ticket.

[LunaAsefaw]

Hi @ClaraIV sorry I just saw this comment now. We were making changes to Fiji last week so that error probably happened because changes were happening in the backend.

@gclapp1 I raised that concern with Dimas, I saw that the countries that intersect the antimerdian showed no data for onshore and solar (Kiribati and Fiji for example) but returned data for offshore. I wanted to test this on the production site to assess if there is an issue with these countries or there really are no suitable areas but they're not on the staging site.

As for Tuvalu, Tokelau and United States Minor Outlying Islands, this issue relates to #27 and #42, where we touch on the fact that these countries exist on the site but their geometry file seem to be missing. So these are being looked at.

Lastly, we were thinking of keeping just the administrative countries but since Dimas got the site to generate zones without crashing the site, we thought we could include the function for anyone hoping to analyze on a grid level. Regarding the boundary analyses, you are right and Dimas was made aware of this issue and is debugging it.

as seen above @dimasciput, since US topo.json was done on a country level after the merged states, the adminstrative boundaries analysis does not work. Cayman Islands is a similar situation, it returns one big zone because it treats the whole country as one boundary, instead of adminstrative boundaries.