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_territories_in_North_America 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 ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
