Country / region name update from HQ
July 03, 2018 03:25PM
HQ has updated the names of countries and regions this week. Here is a summarize.

Country Netherlands Antilles removed.
These three countries: St Eustatius, Saba, Bonaire has been merged into Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba.
Country St. Martin renamed to Saint Martin
New country: Sint Maarten
Country Curacao renamed to Curaçao.
Countries Nevis and St Kitts and St Kitts merged into Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Norwegian regions Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag merged into Trøndelag. Project-GC will make some updates regarding this, but we are not there yet.

Regions has been added to Switzerland. Project-GC already had this, will get back with the result in another post. This is in process.

Regions in France has been updated (merged and renamed). Will get back to that as well. I haven't started on it. Haven't started looking at it from Project-GC point of view yet.
Re: Country / region name update from HQ
July 03, 2018 08:46PM
Stupid question from the peanut gallery: are the configs updated automatically for these type of name changes or does it require the taggers to fix the configs by hand?
Re: Country / region name update from HQ
July 03, 2018 08:48PM
It's not a stupid question. They are not updated automatically, it would be a risk to just search and replace, it requires manual review.
Re: Country / region name update from HQ
July 03, 2018 08:52PM
Thanks! That would explain why one of my USA tags was highlighted as a possible change for Switzerland. Bern was part of another county's name in the USA.
Re: Country / region name update from HQ
July 03, 2018 08:54PM
Exactly. The "potential" matches is just a simple search for strings in tags and scripts. A fast hack, better than before when we didn't even try to find what was affected. :) Short names obviously have a higher risk for false positives.
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