a) Is there some way to get a dump of FIDs with their corresponding
country/province names?
    

You could use dbfdump.  I think it is delivered with FWTools.

  
Is the FID supposed to be in the .dbf file that accompanies the .shp file?  I have examined this file, and I don't see an FID column (column names are in the first row).  In particular, since starspan2 reports an FID of 0 for Zemmour, Mauritania, I would expect to see a column with the value 0 in the Zemmour row of the .dbf file.  But, there isn't one.  I was assuming that FIDs were in one of the other files in the set (.dbf, .fix, .qix, .shp, .shx).
  
b) What other steps might I take to detect/fix any side location
conflict(s)
    

I've attached the source to a GDAL application I wrote (it simply accesses
the GDAL/Geos buffer function) to repair geometry of polygons.  Use the -r
option (the -c option doesn't work).  You'll need to link with a version
of GDAL that uses GEOS.

  
Thanks.  I'll give it a shot.
  
c) The docs on the starspan wiki are out of sync with the current
version (1.2.03).  Are there updated docs for starspan?  Should I fall
back to a previous version?

    

I used version 1.2.01, but I don't recall why...
  
Hmm.  I'll switch, and see what happens.

Thanks!

Greg

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