Add short location info to islands, microstates and small dependent territories

[axelboc]

Islands, micro-nations and small dependent territories are the trickiest to remember. Some hints as to where they are located may help to differentiate them.

The location info should be added to the Country info field and consist of a short, consistent sentence. For islands, the sentence should mention the geographical subregion (e.g. Caribbean), the landforms (atoll, islet, island, small group of island, archipelago, etc.) and the number of islands if relevant (i.e. mainly if it's 2 or 3). For microstates and small dependent territories, the sentence should just be as succinct as possible (e.g. "on the North African coast of the Mediterranean Sea", "in Rome, Italy", "in Central Europe, between Switzerland and Austria", etc.) The word microstate should be included as well, since it isn't the case currently.

[axelboc]

I'm not convinced this issue is still a good idea. Any opinions?

[ohare93]

I still have trouble with some of them. Some of the tiny buggers are almost impossible to map in your head unless you have something to be the relative position. For the ones in Polynesia I have taken to mapping their position in relation to Fiji, as that's usually visible on the map (unlike most of them).

A standard metric for this would go a long way, I'd say.

[aplaice]

I still have trouble with some of them. Some of the tiny buggers are almost impossible to map in your head unless you have something to be the relative position. For the ones in Polynesia I have taken to mapping their position in relation to Fiji, as that's usually visible on the map (unlike most of them).

I have the same problem. I think that having the maritime boundaries, (like here) would help most, though obviously that's a matter of improving the maps.

Having which island subregion a given country belongs to, mentioned in the "Country info" might perhaps be also be useful, though.

[carteryott]

I think more precise maps is a necessary -- even if it were to be just zoomed in versions of the same maps. It is too difficult to gauge the location of the very small islands as it is. Question: if you were to make an update to the deck, would the changes I've made personally be affected? I apologize, I'm very new in terms of coding and Anki in general.

[ohare93]

Question: if you were to make an update to the deck, would the changes I've made personally be affected? I apologize, I'm very new in terms of coding and Anki in general.

Probably, if you update that is. What type of changes have you made?

[carteryott]

Added pronunciation to some of the countries and capitals, and added the US states and their capitals, and the Canadian provinces, their capitals, and their flags. Are you a contributor to this deck? I'm not sure how these things work, is it compiled by one person or a group of people?

[ohare93]

You would lose your country/capital pronunciation if you updated (I presume you just added the pronunciations into the already existing fields, or did you make new fields?), but you would not lose any new cards you have made. This will hopefully not be the case in the future, see my reply to you in #137 👍 But for now you'd lose some of your data, indeed.

Are you a contributor to this deck? I'm not sure how these things work, is it compiled by one person or a group of people?

The deck is mainly managed by @axelboc and @aplaice 👍 I am a contributor, who works on the underlying deck manager Brain Brew that turns the data here into Anki notes. You can see all the contributors on the main page of the Git repo, or here, including many fine guys and gals that have provided translations of the deck, or small tweaks/corrections here and there.