Internal IDs vs FIPS

[xland]

Hi,

 

 

 

we are currently trying to implement FusionMaps into our application and we just found, that in some countries the Internal Ids don't match the FIPS 10-4 Subcountry codes and therefor we can't correctly display the data we get from GeoIP. So far we have noticed the differences in map of Spain and Russia. The list of codes as provided by GeoIP is available here http://www.maxmind.com/app/fips10_4 - if you compare for example http://www.fusioncharts.com/maps/docs/Contents/MapSS/Russia.html you will immediatelly see the differences. Any ideas on how to solve this problem?

[Guest Madhumita]

Hello,

Welcome to FusionCharts Forum.

You can try specifying the FIPS 10-4 Subcountry codes as custom IDs for the entities.

 

Please refer to the documentation link below:

http://www.fusioncharts.com/maps/docs/Contents/CustomID.html

[xland]

Madhumita (12/16/2009)

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Hello,

 

You can try specifying the FIPS 10-4 Subcountry codes as custom IDs for the entities.

 

 

 

Please refer to the documentation link below:

 

http://www.fusioncharts.com/maps/docs/Contents/CustomID.html

 

 

 

That would make our code one hell of mess... we need to generate the XML for the maps on the fly, and not to polute our system with extra exceptions for specific countries. It would help to know which countries are affected (don't match the fips spec) to at least minimize the number of necessary exceptions.

[Guest Madhumita]

Hello,

Currently, different maps follow different standards.

 

We are expecting to standardize (where we will have an option to use any of the major stanadards in one single map)all our maps in our next major version FusionMaps v4.

As of now, you can to map the data for all the maps to achieve the standardisation.

[xland]

Madhumita (12/17/2009)

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Hello,

 

 

 

Currently, different maps follow different standards.

 

 

 

We are expecting to standardize (where we will have an option to use any of the major stanadards in one single map)all our maps in our next major version FusionMaps v4.

 

 

 

As of now, you can to map the data for all the maps to achieve the standardisation.

 

 

 

I would suggest ISO 3166-2 for USA & Canada and FIPS for international regions... so far it seems like there are only few exceptions that don't follow this in v3 (at least what we have found) and it would be great if we could avoid doing unnecessary conversions. Any idea when the v4 will be released?

[Guest Madhumita]

Hello,

FusionCharts V4 will be released around mid 2010.

Your suggestions are very important to us. We have made a note of the same.