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stefangabos / world_countries

Constantly updated lists of world countries and their associated alpha-2, alpha-3 and numeric country codes as defined by the ISO 3166 standard, available in CSV, JSON , PHP, SQL and XML formats, in multiple languages and with national flags included; also available are the ISO 3166-2 codes of provinces/ states associated with the countries
http://stefangabos.github.io/world_countries/
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wrong format of swiss flag #26

Closed maisen20 closed 3 years ago

maisen20 commented 4 years ago

The swiss flag has the wrong format. It should have a square format and not a rectangle.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/olympic-parade_the-swiss-flag-is-square---except-when-it-isn-t/43873350

stefangabos commented 4 years ago

i don't know what is the appropriate action to this... i'll just leave it as it is i guess. it will not look ok when being present alongside other flags... suggestions are welcome though

StringEpsilon commented 4 years ago

Swiss law defines a square. Only exceptions according to the flag code are maritime flags. Source in German

I think the appropriate thing to do is to use the flag as the country itself specified it.

Related: The Nepalese flag also stands out, but has the correct shape in this repository:

https://github.com/stefangabos/world_countries/blob/master/flags/128x128/np.png

Addendum: While at it, you might want to double check other flags that don't use a 2:3 aspect ration. Wikipedia provides a helpful list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aspect_ratios_of_national_flags

stefangabos commented 4 years ago

i am not managing the flags myself. the flags are made by IconDrawer. you can either try and get in touch with them or, if you are able, alter the flags yourself and do a pull request. again, suggestions are welcome

stefangabos commented 4 years ago

nevermind, I am writing an email to them right now

stefangabos commented 4 years ago

done - email sent

stefangabos commented 3 years ago

i got no response from the creators of the flags, closing this as there's nothing else i can do