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Places metadata for Colombia

chendaniely opened this issue · comments

commented

There needs to be a CO_Places.csv file that needs the following columns

  • location
  • location_type
  • country
  • state_province
  • district_county_municipality
  • city
  • alt_name1
  • alt_name2

While cleaning the Colombia data, the department and municipality columns can be used to create the CO_Places.csv file

After A bit of cleaning I have this:

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The first set of questions are:

  1. How do I address the Municipio Desconocido which means "Unknown municipality". I believe they are unknown counts for a particular municipality, but I could be wrong
  2. Does department map to state_province and municipality maps to district_county_municipality?

Next, there are 94 observations that look like the following:
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  1. Is BOGOTA a state and municipality?
  2. would the [country]-[state/province]-[county/municipality/city] format then be: CO-Bogota-Bogota-Usaquen-Los Cedros?
    • would the hyphens between cities be confusing?
    • One option is to replace the hyphens in city names into underscores, or change the [country]-[state/province]-[county/municipality/city] to be [country]_[state/province]_[county/municipality/city]
commented

First set:

  1. Yes, I think all of the "Municipio Desconocido" have a known department, so you can create a "place" called Unknown Municipio in each department
  2. Yes, department maps to state and municipio to municipality

Second set:

  1. Treat Bogota as a department since that convention is used in the report. D.C. is Distrito Capital. You can remove "Bogota" (and the other department names) from the Municipio names
  2. I prefer option 2: replace the hyphens in city names into underscores. That will be consistent with the other Places files so that all can be parsed by hyphen

(3.) The alt_name columns are there in case there is some other useful version you would like to include, e.g. the hyphenated version