CONTRIBUTING.md

In adeckmyn/mapdataNE: Map databases from the Natural Earth project.

CONTRIBUTING

If you feel inclined to give a hand, here's what you could do:

Naming

Any help in correcting/completing the naming of all polygons would be appreciated. For instance, the world10 data set contains many more islands than e.g. the old worldHires set, and even there a lot of names were missing.

All names are implemented in readable form in e.g. the file src/world10.name You can send me an edited name file, or just a list of identifications.

The usual naming scheme is something like - Country for the central polygon of a country - Country:Part for countries consisting of several part (e.g. islands) Unidentified parts are just numbered in the order they appear in the Natural Earth shapefile. - Country:Island group:Island Yes, this also happens.

Currently, only a small proportion of all islands are correctly named. The names have mainly been taken from the original worldHires set. Obvious changes in country names are all fixed, but there remain a lot of unnamed polygons.

adeckmyn/mapdataNE documentation built on May 10, 2019, 5:52 a.m.