https://github.com/ashkyd/geojson-regions

🌏 A repo to create simplified GeoJSON regions so we can display map-based visualisations without having to load tiles all over the place.
https://github.com/ashkyd/geojson-regions

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🌏 A repo to create simplified GeoJSON regions so we can display map-based visualisations without having to load tiles all over the place.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ashkyd/geojson-regions
• Owner: AshKyd
• License: unlicense
• Created: 2014-01-02T13:42:30.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-03-23T09:30:01.000Z (9 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-29T18:33:41.466Z (4 months ago)
• Language: HTML
• Homepage: https://geojson-maps.ash.ms/
• Size: 50.3 MB
• Stars: 402
• Watchers: 28
• Forks: 257
• Open Issues: 6
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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GeoJSON Regions

===============

A repo to create simplified GeoJSON regions so we can display map-based

visualisations without having to load tiles all over the place.

These are compiled from on [the Natural Earth data](http://www.naturalearthdata.com/)

which offers public domain shapefiles.

The data

--------

Data is organised by resolution (10m, 50m & 110m), and each country is stored

under a [ISO 3166-1 alpha-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-3)

country code.

This stuff is fairly subjective. Natural earth states:

> Natural Earth Vector draws boundaries of sovereign states according to defacto

> status. We show who actually controls the situation on the ground. For

> instance, we show China and Taiwan as two separate states. But we show

> Palestine as part of Israel. Please feel free to mashup our countries and

> disputed areas themes to match your particular political outlook.

Fetching the latest data

------------------------

I'm aiming to keep this one up to date, but if you need to fetch the latest data

you can do so by running `go.sh` in the repo root.

If you notice the repo is out of date, please feel free to make a pull request.

Note: you require gdal installed on your system (ogr2ogr command converts

shapefiles to geojson).

Testing

-------

Really loose unit tests are in the `test/` folder. These ensure the data hasn't

deviated too much from sensibility between updates.

```

npm install

npm test

```

Contributing

------------

The only data changes I'll accept in this repo are those fetched from

naturalearthdata.com. Please don't make a pull request with modified data.

If you can improve the build tools, or have a new transformation you want to add

go for it!