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OpenSyria Data Geography v0.1.1

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@mustafazeydani mustafazeydani released this 28 Jun 17:28

Public patch release for OpenSyria Data Geography.

Highlights:

  • Adds 15 close one-to-one GeoNames locality IDs from a conservative final review pass.
  • Improves coverage reports so documented source gaps stay visible without becoming actionable contribution tasks.
  • Publishes generated JSON, NDJSON, CSV, SQL, YAML, and XML artifacts for governorates, districts, subdistricts, and localities.

Coverage:

  • Governorates: 14
  • Districts: 62
  • Subdistricts: 272
  • Localities: 7,605
  • Locality GeoNames IDs: 3,768 present, 3,837 remaining for future source-backed review

Known limitations:

  • 2 Quneitra subdistrict population values remain null because the USCB workbook uses missing-data sentinels.
  • 6 Quneitra locality Arabic names remain unset because the GeoNames point-fill rows have no Arabic alternate names.
  • Locality-level GeoNames coverage is intentionally partial and should improve through future reviewed releases.

Release checks:

  • pnpm run release:prepare -- --version v0.1.1
  • HDX/OCHA administrative-boundary comparison: 0 missing records, 0 extra records, 0 parent mismatches.
  • Current GeoNames SY.zip selected populated-place columns matched the local imported GeoNames input: 11,735 rows.