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oodavid / iso-3166-2

A publicly available dataset containing the countries and administrative divisions as defined in ISO 3166-2. After much research into how to best structure the geospacial data for happiest I made the decision to use ISO 3166-2 as the foundation. This repo contains JSON data representing ISO 3166-2 with the countries and divisions reverse geocoded; designed primarily for import into MongoDB it will be useful to anyone with a need for geospacial data.
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Original source (license)? #3

Open rinogo opened 8 years ago

rinogo commented 8 years ago

Loving this data. In ways, I prefer it to others, such as the one at http://www.ip2location.com/free/iso3166-2. One advantage to this data is that the names used include non-"standard" characters.

Anyway, there are two parts to this issue:

  1. What is the original source for this data? I don't want to break any licensing agreements, even indirectly.
  2. Under what license is this data provided? The lack of a license implies public domain, but it might be preferable to choose a license.

Thanks! :)

rashidkpc commented 7 years ago

Under what license is this data provided? The lack of a license implies public domain, but it might be preferable to choose a license.

Without a license you can only assume you are free to view it, but not use it in any manner. A work has to be explicitly put into public domain, or the copyright has to expire. Unfortunately we don't have either here, thus no permission to use this work.