[tz] Carving shapes

Tim Parenti tim at timtimeonline.com
Fri Oct 17 15:39:54 UTC 2014


Thanks, Eric.  The list paragraphs seem to be very similar to the text from
the Russian legislation I waded through a while back:
http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/%28Spravka%29?OpenAgent&RN=431985-6&02
via Alexander Krivenyshev in
http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2014-July/021105.html

I haven't checked to see that it matches, but I think we're pretty
confident about the 2014 offsets.

--
Tim Parenti

On 16 October 2014 13:26, Eric M. Michielli <Eric.Michielli at accuweather.com>
wrote:

> I've come across this website that lists the administrative areas that
> fall in each of the time zones (in Russian).
>
> http://www.regnum.ru/news/polit/1820633.html
>
> Eric Michielli
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tz-bounces at iana.org [mailto:tz-bounces at iana.org] On Behalf Of
> Lester Caine
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 12:41 PM
> To: tz at iana.org
> Subject: Re: [tz] Carving shapes
>
> On 16/10/14 17:24, Tim Parenti wrote:
> >
> > The commentary in the relevant portions of the 'europe' file attempts
> > to detail the scope of each zone, in terms of the political
> > subdivisions of Russia.
> >
> > Back in August, Blake Crosby and I had a brief discussion about how to
> > find good geometries for these subdivisions, but we hadn't found much.
> > https://github.com/blakecrosby/tz-map/issues/1
> >
> > Eric Muller has created shapefiles in the past for some versions of tz
> > data.  On his http://efele.net/maps/tz/russia/ page, he shares an
> > "ingredients" file at
> > http://efele.net/maps/tz/russia/tz_russia_ingredients.zip which may be
> > of some use.
>
> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/?key=timezone
>
> But it still needs help from people to update when changes do happen.
> The political boundaries do already exist, so normally it's just a matter
> of modifying relations to update things.
>
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