File talk:USA Counties with FIPS and names.svg

county/city-county conficts

In the id field, where I added "_city" to the names of conflicting city-counties, I now realize that, as this map is meant for machine processing based on the FIPS code, I really could have left the county & city names the same in the id field. The FIPS code acts as the disambiguator, and that's all that I'll be using from this field in the application that I need this for. I could have made the id field just the FIPS code, actually. But at this point I am not going to upload a new version. Kbh3rd (talk) 03:32, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

I have created a new version of this map in which the id field is only the FIPS code. Since my intention is to use that as a key to correlate the svg objects with FIPS-identified data, that's all I need, and I assume that's all others will need for the same purpose. It's much more straightforward and sane, and the city/county issue doesn't affect the FIPS code at all. The name and state for each county is in the label if it's needed for display to humans.

I also added thin black borders on all the counties. The border is needed if a county is rendered in white or near-white, which is likely to happen if color density is used to visualize data. That exactly is the case with the application for which I needed to create this FIPS-coded map. -- Kbh3rd (talk) 19:16, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

small corrections...

Hi, I fixed three counties that did not have an `inkscape:label` element: "West Feliciana, LA" (22125), "Jefferson, LA" (22051), "Laurens, SC" (45059). Thanks for such a great SVG!!! -- Joebeone (talk) 21:27, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

One other noted change

Yukon-Koyukuk, AL should be Yukon-Koyukuk, AK. I'm going through, making a derivative of this map for work, and this turned up. If someone else could fix this, that could work. Alternatively, I could upload the fixed file once my 4-days-wait is up.Jstnptchtt (talk) 13:51, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

CSS version

The version over at Usa counties large.svg is similarly coded to this but with the FIPS code as a class identifier and the name in the id field. This allows colouring using a simply css insertion into the top of the file. Also it removes the reliance on inkscape and sodipod elements and reduces the file size by a third. /Lokal_Profil 01:35, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Correcting FIPS code for three Alaska counties

I'm using this file matched up to current US census data, and the FIPS code for the following three AK counties has changed:

FIPS code source: http://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/reference/codes/files/st02_ak_cou.txt Also see: https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/codes/cou.html (Select "Alaska" to generate file linked above)

Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon, AK
SVG File is: 232
Census.gov should be: 230
Wrangell-Petersburg, AK
SVG File is: 280
Census.gov should be: 195
Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan, AK
SVG File is: 201
Census.gov should be: 198

I'm not sure how to go about submitting a correction to the source file, but I think these three FIPS codes should be corrected to match current data.

Thanks.