Historical; Orleans and Dakota Territories? about ocd-division-ids HOT 10 CLOSED

That sounds right. Where do the abbreviations ol and dk come from?

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On Nov 18, 2016, at 7:54 PM, showerst [email protected] wrote:

I've been loading some historical US legislative data, and OCD is missing the Territory of Orleans, and the Dakota territory which both sent a few people to congress in the 1800s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territory_of_Orleans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Territory

If I add submit a PR for it, as ocd-division/country:us/territory:ol and ocd-division/country:us/territory:dk with proper start/end dates will you accept it, or is it obscure enough to be out of scope?

If so, should ol get a same_as with the state of Louisana?

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ol and dk come from https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators -- but could just be arbitrary. Happy to format them however you want.

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Hmm, if you can find any source to support those abbreviations, that'd be best.

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I doubt I'll find a good historical source; what's preferable to those abbreviations? I'd rather the identifier fit whatever scheme you use now, since this is such an obscure edge case.

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dt seems much more prevalent, e.g. https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2003/winter/little-town-in-nara-1.html http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/99613785/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DT

Evidence for Orleans is harder to find, but most likely ot, e.g. http://www.harmerschau.com/cgilocal/chap_auc.php?site=2&lang=1&sale=85&chapter=2&page=1 http://www.uspcs.org/resource-center/books-monographs/american-stampless-cover-catalog/your-input/

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Ah cool, and thanks for the cross-links.

Last question while we're on the subject; the Phillippines also sent a number of reps to the house during their time as a US territory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-voting_members_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives#The_Philippines

Is that something we'd create a division for, distinct from the modern country of the Philippines?

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Like Orleans, we can create ocd-division/country:us/territory:ph (taking ph from the ISO country code for the Philippines) ocd-division/country:us/territory:pi for Philippine Islands.

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Cool. Is there a process guide for OCD PRs? Can I just fork it, manually add them to country-us.csv, and create a PR or is there more process to it?

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country-us.csv is autogenerated from dependent files.

Instead, edit https://github.com/opencivicdata/ocd-division-ids/blob/master/identifiers/country-us/us_territories.csv

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