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ne_10m_admin_0_countries shapefile missing ISO_A2 and ISO_A3 for certain countries #131

Closed poezn closed 6 years ago

poezn commented 9 years ago

ISO_A2 and ISO_A3 codes are missing for certain countries in the 10m political shapefile. They're present in the 50m shapefile, though.

Most important examples: France, Kosovo, Norway, and about a dozen smaller/newer/disputed countries.

nvkelso commented 9 years ago

The ISO codes are on the Natural Earth admin level feature (sovereignty, country, map unit, or map sub-unit) that matches the ISO definition. If you're not finding it in one level, look in the next up or down.

It sounds like you're asking for a fuzzy ISO code instead of a strict ISO code concordance / crosswalk. That seems like a useful feature.

If the 10m and 50m files aren't matching that's an error and should be fixed. But they're built off the same source table so that would be surprising.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Michael Porath notifications@github.com wrote:

ISO_A2 and ISO_A3 codes are missing for certain countries in the 10m political shapefile. They're present in the 50m shapefile, though.

Most important examples: France, Kosovo, Norway, and about a dozen smaller/newer/disputed countries.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/issues/131.

poezn commented 9 years ago

Got it. Thanks for the reply.

The discrepancy between the 10m and 50m shapefile is likely due to the different version. 10m is v3.1.0 and 50m is v2.0.0.

I'm still not 100% clear on France and Norway, given FR/FRA and NO/NOR doesn't exist on any of the (sovereignty, country, map unit, or map sub-unit) levels.

Finally, it would be great if this was documented somewhere, along with some meta data about what the columns in the shapefile mean. I'm happy to help out if I can.

kernc commented 7 years ago

:+1: to have France and Norway define ISO_A3, ISO_A3 and ISO_N3 in 10m_admin0 (etc.).

How is this fuzzy? Wikipedia lists FR and NO as from the standard and doesn't mention any ambiguity.

nvkelso commented 6 years ago

Closing in favor of #12.