v811_spc009/external/timezone-boundary-builder/CHANGELOG.md

2019b

Zone Changes

• Update to latest OSM data

Other Changes

• Include JSON list of timezone names in each release (#69)
• Improve troubleshooting wiki by adding demo video on fixing broken relations (#68)

2019a

Zone Changes

• Split Vietnam into 2 zones (#66)
  • Make Northern Vietnam be a part of Asia/Bangkok
  • Southern Vietnam stays Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh
• Make Bir Tawil area be a part of Africa/Cairo instead of being a part of Africa/Khartoum.
• Update to latest OSM data

Other Changes

• Add standard linter (#67)

2018i

Zone Changes

• Make territories of Taiwan take precedence when they overlap Chinese-claimed territories. (#52)
• Add Oslo Accords Area B and C to Asia/Jerusalem. (#53)
• Create new zone Asia/Qostanay by taking area from Asia/Qyzylorda. (#59)
• Change timezone for Antarctic Station Neumayer III Station from Europe/Berlin to Etc/UTC. (#61)
• Update to latest OSM data

Other Changes

• Add some badges to the README
• Add progress stats reporting
• Update to use Node 10 (#56)

2018g

Zone Changes

• Switch geometries of America/Danmarkshavn and America/Scoresbysund (#40)
• Add timezones in Antarctica (#42)
• Fix northern border of America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos (#46)
• Allow timezone boundaries to overlap. (#41)
  • This change now means that the following zones overlap:
    • Africa/Juba, Africa/Khartoum
    • America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos, America/Punta_Arenas
    • America/La_Paz, America/Porto_Velho
    • America/Moncton, America/New_York
    • Asia/Hebron, Asia/Jerusalem
    • Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, Asia/Manila
    • Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, Asia/Shanghai
    • Asia/Manila, Asia/Shanghai
    • Asia/Shanghai, Asia/Taipei
    • Asia/Shanghai, Asia/Urumqi
    • Europe/Amsterdam, Europe/Berlin
    • Europe/Belgrade, Europe/Zagreb
    • Europe/Berlin, Europe/Luxembourg
    • Europe/Paris, Europe/Rome
• Add disupted area near Doklam to Asia/Shanghai and Asia/Thimphu (#49)
• Update boundaries of America/Creston and America/Edmonton to reflect changes in OpenStreetMap
• Update to latest OSM data

Other Changes

• Added more libraries to list of lookup libraries using this project's data
• Fixed overpass querying (#43)

2018d

Zone Changes

• Add timezones in the oceans (#34)
  • Shapefiles and geojson are now outputted as with or without oceans
• Fix Viedma Glacier are to reflect latest OSM boundaries
• Update to latest OSM data

Other Changes

• Better debugging
  • Printing Overpass query for when no data is received.
  • Using geojsonhint and writing problematic geojson to a pretty-printed file.
  • Save validation overlaps to file.
  • Add links to troubleshooting wiki for common errors.
• Update README
  • Add list of geographical lookup libraries
  • Add troubleshooting wiki

2017c

Zone Changes

• Refactor of timezones in China (#13)
  • Integration of areas formerly found in Asia/Chongqing, Asia/Harbin and Asia/Kashgar into other zones
  • Expansion of Asia/Shanghai to all of China except Xinjiang
  • Asia/Urumqi is now comprised of Xinjiang
• Fix Mexico Beach, FL by moving it to central time (#20)
• Make Viedma glacier area work with updated OSM boundaries
• Remove small holes and reduce geojson precision. (#11 and #17)
• Remove zones found in backward file of timezone db (#16)
  • America/Coral_Harbour now integrated into America/Atikokan
  • America/Montreal now integrated into America/Toronto
  • See notes on China refactor for changes to Asia/Chongqing, Asia/Harbin, Asia/Kashgar, Asia/Shanghai and Asia/Urumqi
  • Asia/Rangoon renamed to Asia/Yangon
  • Pacific/Yap integrated into Pacific/Chuuk
  • Pacific/Johnston integrated into Pacific/Honolulu
• Refactor arbitrary sea boundaries of timezones in the Gulf of St Lawrence to account for updated OSM geometry of the boundary of Quebec.
• Add Page, AZ to America/Phoenix (#9)
• Update to latest OSM data

Other Changes

• Add linting of json files
  • A overpass source listed in timezones.json must have a corresponding definition in osmBoundarySources.json
  • A overpass source defined in osmBoundarySources.json must be used in at least one operation in timezones.json
  • A manual-polygon or manual-multipolygon defined in timezones.json must be accompanied with a description.
• Add ability to build only certain zones in builder script
• Add travis-ci builds that require linting script to pass
• Added descriptions to manual geometries
• Add ability to use overpass to fetch ways that represent boundaries
• Rewrite README

2017a

• Zone Changes
  • Add new zone America/Punta_Arenas by taking area from America/Santiago
  • Move the boundary of America/New_York and America/Chicago in the region of various towns in Alabama such as Phenix City to the west to include these towns in America/New_York
  • Implement own interpretation of border of America/Chicago and America/Denver in the following places:
    • Move boundary to the east of ND Highway 31 in Sioux county, ND
    • Move diagonal boundary through Stanley County, SD northwest so it doesn't go through the middle of Fort Pierre
  • Update to latest OSM data
• Other changes
  • Add picture of zones to README

2016j

• Zone Changes
  • Add new zone Asia/Atyrau by taking area from Asia/Aqtau
  • Add new zone Europe/Saratov by taking area from Europe/Volgograd
  • Update to latest OSM data
• Other changes
  • README updates

2016i

• Zone Changes
  • Split Cyprus into 2 zones. The existing Asia/Nicosia now ends at the northern boundary of the United Nations Buffer Zone and the new zone Asia/Famagusta contains everything north of the buffer zone.
  • Add missing data definitions: Congo-Kinshasa and South Sudan
  • Old Crimea boundary no longer exists in OSM, use combination of Crimea + Sevastopol
  • Typo of extra space in Harrison County fixed in OSM
  • Taishan City now has invalid geometry in OSM, use Xinhui district instead when making boundaries
  • Update to latest OSM data
• Other changes
  • Add download throttling of publicly available Overpass API
  • Remove old dist files if they exist so ogr2ogr can work
  • Update README to note change in Overpass API querying

2016d

First data release of the project.