OpenSyria Data Geography v0.1.1
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.zipselected populated-place columns matched the local imported GeoNames input: 11,735 rows.