deciphering attribute labels

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deciphering attribute labels #109

Open big-mat opened 1 month ago

big-mat commented 1 month ago

Hi, sorry to post it here, can't really see a place to ask this: Is there metadata to decipher the attributes? e.g., gdp_md or any of the others? I have been unsuccessful in my searches of the urls listed, stackoverflow, gis forums etc. please, and thank you,

mps9506 commented 1 month ago

There is piecemeal info out there on the various attributes, see this issue: https://github.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/issues/153.

It also appears there is an open pull request with the starts of a metadata table (https://github.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/pull/861). This gist also has some useful links from World Fact Book and others that might help track down attribute descriptions.

PMassicotte commented 1 month ago

That is a good question. I do not have a good answer at this time. Maybe there is something hidden in the code used to produce the data we could re-use?