<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the link, Jim.<br><br>I don't have a great shapefile viewer to view the shapefiles in <a href="http://biogeo.ucdavis.edu/data/gadm2/shp/RUS_adm.zip">http://biogeo.ucdavis.edu/data/gadm2/shp/RUS_adm.zip</a>, but I downloaded the corresponding second-level Google Earth dataset at <a href="http://biogeo.ucdavis.edu/data/gadm2/kmz/RUS_adm2.kmz">http://biogeo.ucdavis.edu/data/gadm2/kmz/RUS_adm2.kmz</a>. Upon first glance, it seems to contain everything that's needed to represent the boundaries of Russia's zones, as tz knows them.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>--<br>Tim Parenti<br></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 October 2014 13:33, Marvel, Jim (CPCOE) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Jim.Marvel@honeywell.com" target="_blank">Jim.Marvel@honeywell.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> In the mean-time I found<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">which has stuff I am chewing on now.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 16, 2014 12:25 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Marvel, Jim (CPCOE)<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:tz@iana.org" target="_blank">tz@iana.org</a>; Eric Muller<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [tz] Carving shapes<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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.<br>
<a href="https://github.com/blakecrosby/tz-map/issues/1" target="_blank">https://github.com/blakecrosby/tz-map/issues/1</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Eric Muller has created shapefiles in the past for some versions of tz data. On his
<a href="http://efele.net/maps/tz/russia/" target="_blank">http://efele.net/maps/tz/russia/</a> page, he shares an "ingredients" file at
<a href="http://efele.net/maps/tz/russia/tz_russia_ingredients.zip" target="_blank">http://efele.net/maps/tz/russia/tz_russia_ingredients.zip</a> which may be of some use.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 16 October 2014 12:00, Marvel, Jim (CPCOE) <<a href="mailto:Jim.Marvel@honeywell.com" target="_blank">Jim.Marvel@honeywell.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Also, how to determine borders for Zabaykalsky Krai</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 16, 2014 11:22 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> '<a href="mailto:tz@iana.org" target="_blank">tz@iana.org</a>'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Carving shapes</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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