unitedstates/python-us

Drop obsolete territories from package?

mileswwatkins opened this issue · 1 comments

Thinking that we could completely drop Dakota, Orleans, and the Philippines from the version 2.0 release @jcarbaugh. Special-casing them presents problems regarding:

  • neighboring
  • capital
  • time_zones, since official time zones, much less IANA ones, may not have even been invented; eg, Orleans was admitted to the union as the State of Louisiana about 70 years before US time zones were implemented
  • abbr and ap_abbr, for similar timeline reasons

What are the core user stories that would support keeping these obsolete territories around? Seems like the headache of keeping them around wouldn't be worth it, but very happy to have my mind changed!

Hi again Miles!

The original ticket that added the obsolete territories mentioned that:

These three were selected due to the fact that (as far
as I can tell) they were the only three which sent representatives to
congress)