It took some time to build filters from the original files ( it is HTML I had to parse, nothing as clean as xml, sadly .... ) and several scripts...
I will look again at the sources to see whether I could find an automatic way to do it... But the source is not clean at all, I had to change a lot of thing by hand ( like Cuba having a boundary with the "US base of guantanamo", and the "US base of guantanamo" has neither Position nor even an entry in the list of its own.... ^^; But I was sure there would be some easy-to-read database.. I'll try to find this tomorrow :-) Nathann On Aug 20, 8:37 pm, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Aug 20, 2:18 am, Nathann Cohen <nathann.co...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hello !!! > > > Starting from a kind of troll related to the next-to-be tour for > > Graphs in Sage ( I wanted to color the map of western europe, but the > > majority of Sage's users do not live there ), I tried to build a graph > > of the whole world by using your dear CIA's data ( available freely on > > their website ) > > > Do you think it would be interesting to add it to the graph generators > > in Sage ? It could be available as graphs.WorldMap() :-) > > > If so, I have a small problem : how to include it ? I generated it by > > parsing again and again several files, then building the final graph > > through Python, but the only way I have now to share this graph is to > > write it by g.write(). > > > This Graph contains labels for the countries ( their names ) but also > > their positions... > > > Nathann > > Since countries change (names change, boundaries change, etc.), first > of all, you need to date this: say it's the world map as of > 2009-08-20, or whatever, and probably give the source (since not > everyone agrees on names, boundaries, etc.). Then if it were possible > to automate its production (get some files from the CIA's website -- > do these have a fixed URL? -- then process them with Python, etc., all > automatically), I see the whole thing as an optional spkg. > > Can we access historical data, too? World map as of 1939-09-01, etc.? > > John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
