On Saturday 16 January 2021 01:41:10 am deloptes wrote:
Michael via tde-users wrote:
North America, but since that and the Arctic
don't exist below?, I'd use
Atlantic..
OK, I put it to Atlantic. The question is if you are Greenlander, if you
will be able to find it
Thinking about it, Mexico (United Mexican States actually and why is that a
top level category?), Honduras, Panama, etc. are North America too.
I think we need a North America added to the region list, as that list is huge
(and missing?):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territ…
A bunch of those I would have called Atlantic as well (Bahamas?, Cuba?),
but 'eh...
Where did the list of regions you posted earlier come from? “Central and
South America” seems made up? This shows Central America as a sub-region of
North America. What I’m guessing below is called “Middle East” is officially
called “Western Asia.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_M49
In that, it’s always best to get the mapping correct first, would it be better
if I compiled (AKA stripped from wiki!) a list of regions to countries?
Using one level of delineation gives 6 regions:
Africa
Antarctica
Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania
Using the second level of delineation gives 17 regions. And shows that list
is crap as it combines Central America, South America, and the Caribbean
into “Latin America and the Caribbean.” Leave it to the UN to just outright
insult people.
# # #
So, great,
https://www.thoughtco.com/official-listing-of-countries-world-region-1435153
https://ourworldindata.org/world-region-map-definitions
nobody seems to have any consistent world region definition. I don’t know,
mostly I think I’d chuck the first region list and just go with countries by
continent? At least it’s stable and no one is going to have to guess where
their country is, also the second link above seems to have a .csv file of
that already built. Then again, you’d probably need to change “Oceania”
to “Australia and Oceania” (as Oceania is not a continent…).
So completely dazed and confused...
Michael
Copy of original list for reference:
> [ME]
> name=Middle East
>
> [US]
> name=United States
>
> [CA]
> name=Canada
>
> [MX]
> name=Mexico
>
> [EU]
> name=Europe
>
> [AF]
> name=Africa
>
> [OZ]
> name=Australasia
>
> [AS]
> name=Asia
>
> [M_]
> name=Central and South America
>
> [AT]
> name=Atlantic