Do you have any idea how it is possible to call the "load" function
from graph_generators.py ?
I cannot use "load" as the function is not defined yet, nor can I
directly write :
return sage.structure.sage_object.load("graph_world.sobj")
as sage is not defined at that time either... ^^;
Nathann
On Aug 20, 10:00 pm, Nathann Cohen <nathann.co...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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