[mcallisterw]

Well there are already 4 different types of adm_0 in Natural Earth, to give people choices of different interpretations of national boundaries so I think this could be done with a 5th adm_0, for the UN approved choice

[mcallisterw]

You choose your own colours. In the same way as, if you had a field for continent, you could colour each continent a different colour, you pick one colour for the number 1s, one for the 2s and so on. The number in the field has no meaning in an of its own, it simply divides the countries up into groups.

[mcallisterw]

They are used to colour the map so that adjacent countries aren’t the same colour. There are versions with 7,8,9 or 13 colours.

[mcallisterw]

I was hoping to find out what this guy was originally looking for, my curiosity was piqued but I guess now we’ll never know.

[mcallisterw]

how do I post images to this forum?

[mcallisterw]

Thanks for replying, I guess you could really go to town on placenames, I’d love to help.

You could have fields for the common English name as already exists, but separate fields for different types of alternative, such as different romanisations of non-roman languages (such as Peking and Běijīng), old names given by imperial powers (Bombay, Danzig), local names for places in the local languages (with another field for those languages not spoken by the majority in their own territory such as Welsh), old Soviet names (Leningrad), perhaps suffixes like the ’upon Tyne’ part of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Would require a lot of people’s imput though

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