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An R package to hold and facilitate interaction with natural earth map data :earth_africa:
http://ropensci.github.io/rnaturalearth/
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Is or isn't Crimea part of Russia? #27

Closed fzenoni closed 1 year ago

fzenoni commented 5 years ago

This is not (only) a political issue, but rather a call for consistency in the rnaturalearth database.

Indeed, this is what happens at the small scale.

library(ggplot2)
library(sf)
library(rnaturalearth)

ggplot() + 
  geom_sf(data=ne_countries(scale='small', returnclass = 'sf'), size = 0.2) + 
  geom_sf(data=ne_countries(scale = 'small', country = 'Russia', returnclass = 'sf'), fill = 'red') +
  coord_sf(xlim = c(25,45), ylim = c(40,50))

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And this is what happens at the medium and large level.

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The reason can't simply be that Crimea is a small area disregarded by the small scale, as Kaliningrad Oblast is correctly included at all levels, despite having a smaller surface than Crimea (15000 vs 27000 km²).

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I am in no position to suggest the best action to take. I can only suggest to have a look at the solution proposed by the OpenStreetMap Data Working Group or to simply follow the relevant UN resolution.

fzenoni commented 5 years ago

Maybe related to https://github.com/ropensci/rnaturalearth/issues/19?

Also if, as documented, breakaway_disputed_areas are not available for small maps, I don't understand why Northern Cyprus is visible at such scale. Can anyone shed some light on this issue?

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mps9506 commented 5 years ago

@fzenoni I'm not the package maintainer, but my thoughts are that this package only provides an interface to access Natural Earth data. I think the best recourse is to report the discrepancies to the Natural Earth maintainers: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/corrections/