Please add middle east countries

[reza1615]

Please add middle east countries to the dist

[etpinard]

Hi, I think you're looking for a middle-east scope.

If you can find generally-accepted longitude and latitude bounds (with a credible source, ideally) for the middle-east, adding this new scope would be as easy as adding an item in the scope array:

sane-topojson/config.json

Lines 8 to 67 in d92e1fc

	"scopes": [
	{
	"name": "world",
	"specs": false
	},
	{
	"name": "usa",
	"specs": {
	"src": "admin_0_countries",
	"key": "ISO_A3",
	"val": "USA",
	"bounds": [-180, 0, -50, 85]
	}
	},
	{
	"name": "europe",
	"specs": {
	"src": "admin_0_countries",
	"key": "CONTINENT",
	"val": "Europe",
	"bounds": [-30, 0, 60, 90]
	}
	},
	{
	"name": "asia",
	"specs": {
	"src": "admin_0_countries",
	"key": "CONTINENT",
	"val": "Asia",
	"bounds": [15, -90, 180, 85]
	}
	},
	{
	"name": "africa",
	"specs": {
	"src": "admin_0_countries",
	"key": "CONTINENT",
	"val": "Africa",
	"bounds": [-30, -50, 60, 50]
	}
	},
	{
	"name": "north-america",
	"specs": {
	"src": "admin_0_countries",
	"key": "CONTINENT",
	"val": "North America",
	"bounds": [-180, 0, -45, 85]
	}
	},
	{
	"name": "south-america",
	"specs": {
	"src": "admin_0_countries",
	"key": "CONTINENT",
	"val": "South America",
	"bounds": [-100, -70, -30, 25]
	}
	}
	],

cc #10 - which attempted to do the same for Oceania,

[csazevedo]

Hi @etpinard . I'm also interested in having middle east and others such as APAC & OC bundled up. I would like to contribute but I don't understand what is the pre-requisite to make this move forward. Wouldn't it be enough to provide a list of countries and use the polygons we have for the scope 'world'?

I don't understand how creating an entry in config.json would be enough. How are bounds calculated?

[etpinard]

Hi @csazevedo - thanks for posting!

Are you using sane-topojson by itself? Or are you looking for a new scope for maps in plotly.js? If the latter, we should first ask the plotly.js maintainer @archmoj if this fits in plotly.js' priorities. If not, we can add a scope here in sane-topojson and make a major version bump.

I don't understand how creating an entry in config.json would be enough. How are bounds calculated?

Unfortunately the sane-topojson build pipeline doesn't currently support topojson creation from a list countries. We use longitude / latitude bounds to define each scope and then filter out countries that fall outside these bounds.