A: The factbook has many more entities / countries than ISO and sometimes with a different definition - it's NOT an easy 1:1 mapping, see https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/appendix/appendix-d.html.
Q: I noticed that you've got Zambian data under ZA for the African region... It should be South African data...
A: See why not ISO codes - Uhhh... nevermind, I see it's stored under SF. Weird, but, ok :)
@mn113 writes:
In od.json the coordinate string is missing a comma.
"Capital": { "name": { "text": "Juba" }, "geographic coordinates": { "text": "04 51 N 31 37 E" }, Should be "04 51 N, 31 37 E" to avoid problems down the line. It's the only example of this kind I found in my use of the repo so far. e.g. comma separator missing.
@mn113 writes:
A couple of countries in the dataset don't conform to a standard way to programmatically access their names. I think it's just Curacao (cc) and Sint Maarten (sk).
Every other country uses ["Government"]["Country name"]["conventional short form"].
I gather this is just a harvested dataset rather than a curated one, but how do you feel about this? If people want to use this data programatically, it's inconvenient that something as major as the name of a country can't be reliably retrieved. (Other more complex properties, I can understand).
PS: European Union (ee) is another file which uses a different convention.