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        <description> Currently in the process of updating polygons for Canada. All counties starting with Division and then a number will get a new/real name. The sources for the names are:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Alberta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Manitoba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Newfoundland_and_Labrador
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Saskatchewan

An array of the translated names can be resolved by this copy/paste.

$divisionTranslations = array(
	// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Alberta
	&amp;#039;Alberta&amp;#039; =&amp;gt; array(
		1 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Medicine Hat&amp;#039;,
		2 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Lethbridge&amp;#039;,
		3 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Claresholm&amp;#039;,
		4 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Hanna&amp;#039;,
		5 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Strathmore&amp;#039;,
		6 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Calgary&amp;#039;,
		7 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Wainwright&amp;#039;,
		8 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Red Deer&amp;#039;,
		9 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Rocky Mountain House&amp;#039;,
		10 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Lloydminster&amp;#039;,
		11 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Edmonton&amp;#039;,
		12 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Cold Lake&amp;#039;,
		13 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Whitecourt&amp;#039;,
		14 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Hinton&amp;#039;,
		15 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Canmore&amp;#039;,
		16 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Fort McMurray&amp;#039;,
		17 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Slave Lake&amp;#039;,
		18 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Grande Cache&amp;#039;,
		19 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Grande Prairie&amp;#039;,
		),
	// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Manitoba
	&amp;#039;Manitoba&amp;#039; =&amp;gt; array(
		1 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Eastern Manitoba&amp;#039;,
		2 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Steinbach Area&amp;#039;,
		3 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Pembina Valley&amp;#039;,
		4 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Pilot Mound Area&amp;#039;,
		5 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;South West Westman&amp;#039;,
		6 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Virden Area&amp;#039;,
		7 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Brandon Area&amp;#039;,
		8 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Central Manitoba&amp;#039;,
		9 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Portage la Prairie Area&amp;#039;,
		10 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Whitehorse Plains&amp;#039;,
		11 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Winnipeg&amp;#039;,
		12 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Beausejour Area&amp;#039;,
		13 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Selkirk Area&amp;#039;,
		14 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;South Interlake Interlake Region&amp;#039;,
		15 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Western Manitoba&amp;#039;,
		16 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Roblin, Russell, Rossburn Area&amp;#039;,
		17 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Dauphin&amp;#039;,
		18 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;North Interlake Area&amp;#039;,
		19 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;North East&amp;#039;,
		20 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Swan River&amp;#039;,
		21 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Flin Flon and North West&amp;#039;,
		22 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Thompson and North Central&amp;#039;,
		23 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Churchill and Northern Manitoba&amp;#039;,
		),
	// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Newfoundland_and_Labrador
	&amp;#039;Newfoundland and Labrador&amp;#039; =&amp;gt; array(
		1 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Avalon Peninsula-St. John\&amp;#039;s&amp;#039;,
		2 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Burin Peninsula - Marystown&amp;#039;,
		3 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;South Coast - Channel - Port aux Basques&amp;#039;,
		4 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;St. George\&amp;#039;s - Stephenville&amp;#039;,
		5 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Humber District - Corner Brook&amp;#039;,
		6 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Central Newfoundland - Grand Falls - Windsor&amp;#039;,
		7 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Bonavista/Trinity - Clarenville&amp;#039;,
		8 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Notre Dame Bay - Lewisporte&amp;#039;,
		9 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Northern Peninsula - St. Anthony&amp;#039;,
		10 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Labrador - Happy Valley - Goose Bay&amp;#039;,
		11 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Nunatsiavut - Nain&amp;#039;,
		),
	// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Saskatchewan
	&amp;#039;Saskatchewan&amp;#039; =&amp;gt; array(
		1 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Estevan&amp;#039;,
		2 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Weyburn&amp;#039;,
		3 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Assiniboia&amp;#039;,
		4 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Maple Creek&amp;#039;,
		5 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Melville&amp;#039;,
		6 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Regina&amp;#039;,
		7 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Moose Jaw&amp;#039;,
		8 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Swift Current&amp;#039;,
		9 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Yorkton&amp;#039;,
		10 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Wynyard&amp;#039;,
		11 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Saskatoon&amp;#039;,
		12 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Battleford&amp;#039;,
		13 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Kindersley&amp;#039;,
		14 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Melfort&amp;#039;,
		15 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Prince Albert&amp;#039;,
		16 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;North Battleford&amp;#039;,
		17 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;Lloydminster&amp;#039;,
		18 =&amp;gt; &amp;#039;La Ronge&amp;#039;,
		),
	);

Updating the names will most likely take a few days since the polygon data for Canada is of a very high resolution.

I found these three checkers that will get affected:
Tag ID: 23219
Script ID: 964, 1022

I have corrected the scripts, but not yet the config with tag id 23219. It&amp;#039;s vogelbird&amp;#039;s, I will contact him personally.</description>
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            <title>Re: Updating polygons for Canada</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ After several hours of trying to import a broken GeoJson I have finally managed.<br />
<br />
Both regions and counties will be updated for Canada. There should be no noticeable changes for regions. I honestly haven&#039;t tried to compare the counties since there are quite a few. I can provide with name tables if anyone wants them.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>magma1447</dc:creator>
            <category>Checker news</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2017 02:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Updating polygons for Canada</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ I did not manage to leave this.<br />
<br />
I looked into OSM. There are two issues with the OSM polygons.<br />
1) The lower level administrative borders does not cover the country, not even closely. I don&#039;t know if the fact is that they have a lot of &quot;no mans land&quot; or OSM is incomplete. It&#039;s not usable anyway.<br />
2) Their counties are silly small (compared to the big country). This rang a bell, it was a tactical decision to use census data with larger areas instead.<br />
<br />
I looked most closely at Alberta, drew a map of all counties in it. It was ~45 of them. It covers about 10% of that state.<br />
<br />
The conclusion is that we will update the census data to 2016. But you can&#039;t expect that particular polygon to be split.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>magma1447</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2017 01:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Updating polygons for Canada</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Haldimand-Norfolk is one unioned area in their 2016 data as well.<br />
<br />
They are seperate in OSM though. I will dig deeper into this matter tomorrow. It&#039;s already 2 hours pass bedtime.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>magma1447</dc:creator>
            <category>Checker news</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2017 01:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Updating polygons for Canada</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Our data is Census data from 2011. They actually released a new file last year (2016). I have downloaded it and will try to look at it tomorrow.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>magma1447</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2017 00:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Updating polygons for Canada</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ In responding to a checker request ( <a href="http://project-gc.com/forum/read?8,7715"  rel="nofollow">http://project-gc.com/forum/read?8,7715</a> ), I discovered that Ontario has a county &quot;Haldimand-Norfolk&quot; listed, which appears to be an old division which only existed until 2000. It should be separate counties &quot;Haldimand&quot; and &quot;Norfolk&quot; Can the polygons for Ontario be fixed, please?]]></description>
            <dc:creator>sumbloke</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2017 00:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Updating polygons for Canada</title>
            <link>/forum/read.php?6,6647,6647#msg-6647</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Currently in the process of updating polygons for Canada. All counties starting with Division and then a number will get a new/real name. The sources for the names are:<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Alberta"  rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Alberta</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Manitoba"  rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Manitoba</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Newfoundland_and_Labrador"  rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Newfoundland_and_Labrador</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Saskatchewan"  rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Saskatchewan</a><br />
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An array of the translated names can be resolved by this copy/paste.<br />
<pre class="bbcode">
$divisionTranslations = array(
	// <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Alberta"  rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Alberta</a>
	&#039;Alberta&#039; =&gt; array(
		1 =&gt; &#039;Medicine Hat&#039;,
		2 =&gt; &#039;Lethbridge&#039;,
		3 =&gt; &#039;Claresholm&#039;,
		4 =&gt; &#039;Hanna&#039;,
		5 =&gt; &#039;Strathmore&#039;,
		6 =&gt; &#039;Calgary&#039;,
		7 =&gt; &#039;Wainwright&#039;,
		8 =&gt; &#039;Red Deer&#039;,
		9 =&gt; &#039;Rocky Mountain House&#039;,
		10 =&gt; &#039;Lloydminster&#039;,
		11 =&gt; &#039;Edmonton&#039;,
		12 =&gt; &#039;Cold Lake&#039;,
		13 =&gt; &#039;Whitecourt&#039;,
		14 =&gt; &#039;Hinton&#039;,
		15 =&gt; &#039;Canmore&#039;,
		16 =&gt; &#039;Fort McMurray&#039;,
		17 =&gt; &#039;Slave Lake&#039;,
		18 =&gt; &#039;Grande Cache&#039;,
		19 =&gt; &#039;Grande Prairie&#039;,
		),
	// <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Manitoba"  rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Manitoba</a>
	&#039;Manitoba&#039; =&gt; array(
		1 =&gt; &#039;Eastern Manitoba&#039;,
		2 =&gt; &#039;Steinbach Area&#039;,
		3 =&gt; &#039;Pembina Valley&#039;,
		4 =&gt; &#039;Pilot Mound Area&#039;,
		5 =&gt; &#039;South West Westman&#039;,
		6 =&gt; &#039;Virden Area&#039;,
		7 =&gt; &#039;Brandon Area&#039;,
		8 =&gt; &#039;Central Manitoba&#039;,
		9 =&gt; &#039;Portage la Prairie Area&#039;,
		10 =&gt; &#039;Whitehorse Plains&#039;,
		11 =&gt; &#039;Winnipeg&#039;,
		12 =&gt; &#039;Beausejour Area&#039;,
		13 =&gt; &#039;Selkirk Area&#039;,
		14 =&gt; &#039;South Interlake Interlake Region&#039;,
		15 =&gt; &#039;Western Manitoba&#039;,
		16 =&gt; &#039;Roblin, Russell, Rossburn Area&#039;,
		17 =&gt; &#039;Dauphin&#039;,
		18 =&gt; &#039;North Interlake Area&#039;,
		19 =&gt; &#039;North East&#039;,
		20 =&gt; &#039;Swan River&#039;,
		21 =&gt; &#039;Flin Flon and North West&#039;,
		22 =&gt; &#039;Thompson and North Central&#039;,
		23 =&gt; &#039;Churchill and Northern Manitoba&#039;,
		),
	// <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Newfoundland_and_Labrador"  rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Newfoundland_and_Labrador</a>
	&#039;Newfoundland and Labrador&#039; =&gt; array(
		1 =&gt; &#039;Avalon Peninsula-St. John\&#039;s&#039;,
		2 =&gt; &#039;Burin Peninsula - Marystown&#039;,
		3 =&gt; &#039;South Coast - Channel - Port aux Basques&#039;,
		4 =&gt; &#039;St. George\&#039;s - Stephenville&#039;,
		5 =&gt; &#039;Humber District - Corner Brook&#039;,
		6 =&gt; &#039;Central Newfoundland - Grand Falls - Windsor&#039;,
		7 =&gt; &#039;Bonavista/Trinity - Clarenville&#039;,
		8 =&gt; &#039;Notre Dame Bay - Lewisporte&#039;,
		9 =&gt; &#039;Northern Peninsula - St. Anthony&#039;,
		10 =&gt; &#039;Labrador - Happy Valley - Goose Bay&#039;,
		11 =&gt; &#039;Nunatsiavut - Nain&#039;,
		),
	// <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Saskatchewan"  rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Saskatchewan</a>
	&#039;Saskatchewan&#039; =&gt; array(
		1 =&gt; &#039;Estevan&#039;,
		2 =&gt; &#039;Weyburn&#039;,
		3 =&gt; &#039;Assiniboia&#039;,
		4 =&gt; &#039;Maple Creek&#039;,
		5 =&gt; &#039;Melville&#039;,
		6 =&gt; &#039;Regina&#039;,
		7 =&gt; &#039;Moose Jaw&#039;,
		8 =&gt; &#039;Swift Current&#039;,
		9 =&gt; &#039;Yorkton&#039;,
		10 =&gt; &#039;Wynyard&#039;,
		11 =&gt; &#039;Saskatoon&#039;,
		12 =&gt; &#039;Battleford&#039;,
		13 =&gt; &#039;Kindersley&#039;,
		14 =&gt; &#039;Melfort&#039;,
		15 =&gt; &#039;Prince Albert&#039;,
		16 =&gt; &#039;North Battleford&#039;,
		17 =&gt; &#039;Lloydminster&#039;,
		18 =&gt; &#039;La Ronge&#039;,
		),
	);</pre>
<br />
Updating the names will most likely take a few days since the polygon data for Canada is of a very high resolution.<br />
<br />
I found these three checkers that will get affected:<br />
Tag ID: 23219<br />
Script ID: 964, 1022<br />
<br />
I have corrected the scripts, but not yet the config with tag id 23219. It&#039;s vogelbird&#039;s, I will contact him personally.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>magma1447</dc:creator>
            <category>Checker news</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2017 21:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
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