From 87c909c664b7b1b63d468a4f44d707a12dd2bc22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerald Bauer Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 20:44:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update NOTES.md --- NOTES.md | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/NOTES.md b/NOTES.md index ece11f1c..800d3693 100644 --- a/NOTES.md +++ b/NOTES.md @@ -13,3 +13,16 @@ Should be "04 51 N, 31 37 E" to avoid problems down the line. It's the only example of this kind I found in my use of the repo so far. e.g. comma separator missing. + +### Country Names - Curacao (cc), Sint Maarten (sk) + +@mn113 writes: + +A couple of countries in the dataset don't conform to a standard way to programmatically access their names. I think it's just Curacao (cc) and Sint Maarten (sk). + +Every other country uses `["Government"]["Country name"]["conventional short form"]`. + +I gather this is just a harvested dataset rather than a curated one, but how do you feel about this? If people want to use this data programatically, +it's inconvenient that something as major as the _name_ of a country can't be reliably retrieved. (Other more complex properties, I can understand). + +PS: European Union (ee) is another file which uses a different convention.