Documentation on how to create division IDs for other countries

[jpmckinney]

I would love to add Canada, likely to a separate repo.

[jamesturk]

To make it easier on partners we're hoping they can be added to this repo.
I'll work on some docs but here are the basics:

You'd want to create a country-ca directory in identifiers (don't create a
country-ca.csv, that'll be auto-generated)

You can define whatever mappings you want in as many CSVs as needed, and
then run

(requires py3)
./scripts/verify.py ca

That'll run basic validation on the ids and then spit them out into the
country-ca.csv

I'm still deciding what the best publication mechanism is, I think some
sort of tagging of releases makes sense so that vendors that are adopting
these ids can know when they need to update.

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I would love to add Canada, likely to a separate repo.

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[jpmckinney]

Is there any way to translate labels? Canada has English and French labels for its electoral districts.

[jamesturk]

Hm, my first thought is to use a mapping for one language. There's a
directory of mapping files that basically map the ids to other ids/strings.
Right now we're just using it to map ids to geoids but it could be useful
for this too. If you have opinions about the best way to handle it let me
know.

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Is there any way to translate labels? Canada has English and French labels
for its electoral districts.

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[jpmckinney]

This answers my question, up to you if you want to close.