Updating polygons for Canada

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
	'Alberta' => array(
		1 => 'Medicine Hat',
		2 => 'Lethbridge',
		3 => 'Claresholm',
		4 => 'Hanna',
		5 => 'Strathmore',
		6 => 'Calgary',
		7 => 'Wainwright',
		8 => 'Red Deer',
		9 => 'Rocky Mountain House',
		10 => 'Lloydminster',
		11 => 'Edmonton',
		12 => 'Cold Lake',
		13 => 'Whitecourt',
		14 => 'Hinton',
		15 => 'Canmore',
		16 => 'Fort McMurray',
		17 => 'Slave Lake',
		18 => 'Grande Cache',
		19 => 'Grande Prairie',
		),
	// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Manitoba
	'Manitoba' => array(
		1 => 'Eastern Manitoba',
		2 => 'Steinbach Area',
		3 => 'Pembina Valley',
		4 => 'Pilot Mound Area',
		5 => 'South West Westman',
		6 => 'Virden Area',
		7 => 'Brandon Area',
		8 => 'Central Manitoba',
		9 => 'Portage la Prairie Area',
		10 => 'Whitehorse Plains',
		11 => 'Winnipeg',
		12 => 'Beausejour Area',
		13 => 'Selkirk Area',
		14 => 'South Interlake Interlake Region',
		15 => 'Western Manitoba',
		16 => 'Roblin, Russell, Rossburn Area',
		17 => 'Dauphin',
		18 => 'North Interlake Area',
		19 => 'North East',
		20 => 'Swan River',
		21 => 'Flin Flon and North West',
		22 => 'Thompson and North Central',
		23 => 'Churchill and Northern Manitoba',
		),
	// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Newfoundland_and_Labrador
	'Newfoundland and Labrador' => array(
		1 => 'Avalon Peninsula-St. John\'s',
		2 => 'Burin Peninsula - Marystown',
		3 => 'South Coast - Channel - Port aux Basques',
		4 => 'St. George\'s - Stephenville',
		5 => 'Humber District - Corner Brook',
		6 => 'Central Newfoundland - Grand Falls - Windsor',
		7 => 'Bonavista/Trinity - Clarenville',
		8 => 'Notre Dame Bay - Lewisporte',
		9 => 'Northern Peninsula - St. Anthony',
		10 => 'Labrador - Happy Valley - Goose Bay',
		11 => 'Nunatsiavut - Nain',
		),
	// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Saskatchewan
	'Saskatchewan' => array(
		1 => 'Estevan',
		2 => 'Weyburn',
		3 => 'Assiniboia',
		4 => 'Maple Creek',
		5 => 'Melville',
		6 => 'Regina',
		7 => 'Moose Jaw',
		8 => 'Swift Current',
		9 => 'Yorkton',
		10 => 'Wynyard',
		11 => 'Saskatoon',
		12 => 'Battleford',
		13 => 'Kindersley',
		14 => 'Melfort',
		15 => 'Prince Albert',
		16 => 'North Battleford',
		17 => 'Lloydminster',
		18 => 'La Ronge',
		),
	);

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's vogelbird's, I will contact him personally.

In responding to a checker request ( http://project-gc.com/forum/read?8,7715 ), I discovered that Ontario has a county "Haldimand-Norfolk" listed, which appears to be an old division which only existed until 2000. It should be separate counties "Haldimand" and "Norfolk" Can the polygons for Ontario be fixed, please?

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.

Haldimand-Norfolk is one unioned area in their 2016 data as well.

They are seperate in OSM though. I will dig deeper into this matter tomorrow. It's already 2 hours pass bedtime.

I did not manage to leave this.

I looked into OSM. There are two issues with the OSM polygons.
1) The lower level administrative borders does not cover the country, not even closely. I don't know if the fact is that they have a lot of "no mans land" or OSM is incomplete. It's not usable anyway.
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.

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.

The conclusion is that we will update the census data to 2016. But you can't expect that particular polygon to be split.

After several hours of trying to import a broken GeoJson I have finally managed.

Both regions and counties will be updated for Canada. There should be no noticeable changes for regions. I honestly haven't tried to compare the counties since there are quite a few. I can provide with name tables if anyone wants them.