[Tutor] theory: geography and python

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2022 22:35:53 +0000, Nathan Smith <nathan-tech at hotmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>
>Is there an industry standard for this sort of thing to get the shapes 
>of countries semi accurate in terms of coordinates and borders? What 
>sources should be looked at?
>

	Rather out-of-date by now but the CIA World Databank II had been
commonly used.

https://www.google.com/search?q=cia+world+databank+II

	I'm sure there are more modernized sources (WDB likely still has West &
East Germany, along with the Berlin air corridors), but they may be as part
of some $$$ GIS package.


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