[Pkg-isocodes-devel] ISO 3166 db

[Ron Savage]

Hi

I'm concerned about the discrepancy between the Debian db of 
countries/subcountries (https://pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org/) and the 
Wikipedia equivalent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1).

I'm concentrating on 'has_subcounties' and 'subcountries_in_db' here.

My code to report on the Debian db says:

countries_in_db => 249.
has_subcounties => 198.
subcountries_in_db => 4847.
subcountry_types_in_db => 92.

However, I've written a Perl module
WWW::Scraper::Wikipedia::ISO3166 which downloads and scrapes the 
corresponding Wikipedia pages. It reports:

countries_in_db => 249
has_subcounties => 200
subcountries_in_db => 5297
subcountry_categories_in_db => 77
subcountry_files_downloaded => 249
subcountry_info_in_db => 352

Anyone know why there would be such a discrepancy?


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Ron Savage - savage.net.au