The GeoChart doesn't really have a concept of 'states' or 'counties' or 'cities' or 'towns'; it only supports 5 resolutions, which may mean different things for different regions. The 'continents', 'subcontinents', and 'countries' resolutions are all fairly straightforward and standardized. The 'provinces' resolution will have the next level of organization. For the US this means states, for Greece it means administrative regions, and for the UK, it means its contained countries (England, Northern Ireland [actually a province, not a country], Scotland, and Wales), as defined by this Wikipedia page<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:UK>. These may be referred to as GB-ENG, GB-NIR, GB-SCT, and GB-WLS, respectively. The other resolution that I haven't yet mentioned is 'metros'. This resolution only works for the US and shows the Designated Market Areas <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designated_Market_Area>.
This organization of sub-regions in the UK makes things a bit difficult for us. For one, if the counties in the UK are like states in the US, then they must be at the same resolution (provinces), however, if we treat the UK specially and make the counties act as provinces, then you will lose the ability to refer to countries in the UK, since there will be no resolution that includes them. Another option is to add another resolution (perhaps 'counties'?) that would allow the counties of the UK to be referred to, but again that wouldn't be accurate, if they are supposed to be like states (and therefore wouldn't be available at the same resolution as states). The third option is to make each of Wales, Scotland, and England top-level countries, but this approach also would have problems. Namely, we would lose Northern Ireland (since it's a province, not a country, and it wouldn't be accurate to show at the 'countries' resolution), and since those countries don't have ISO 3166-1 codes, you would have to refer to them differently than you would other countries (via GB-ENG, rather than the two digit ISO 3166-1 code top-level countries are supposed to have). Each of these options has its own pros and cons, but it's not obvious what the right way to go is. - Sergey On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Andrew Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > I am confused againJ I am not talking about metro. More the European > equivalent of states. For example, I have seen maps for France with region > data and Spain with province data. In the UK they are called Counties. So, > there is no UK equivalent (counties) of US states yet but there are for > ‘some’ European countries? This is why I thought a UK counties map might be > in the pipeline. I am sure it would be very useful. **** > > ** ** > > Thanks for the clarification. **** > > ** ** > > Andrew**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Carlos Moreira > *Sent:* 10 April 2013 19:07 > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [visualization-api] Geochart Data for UK Counties**** > > ** ** > > Ah, no worries :) For a moment I thought there would be others. Cheers > > Quarta-feira, 10 de Abril de 2013 15:35:04 UTC+1, Sergey escreveu:**** > > My apologies, I misspoke. Currently, the metro resolution is only > supported for the US.**** > > > **** > > - Sergey**** > > ** ** > > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Carlos Moreira <[email protected]> > wrote:**** > > Hello Sergey! > That means that currently other selected areas, besides the US, already > support 'metro' resolution? > Can you name a couple more countries that also support it? > Thanks! > Carlos > > Segunda-feira, 8 de Abril de 2013 15:41:19 UTC+1, Sergey escreveu:**** > > Hello! We currently only support 'metro' resolution for a few select areas > (the US being one of them). We certainly have plans for introducing county > resolution in other countries, but have not started work on this, nor do we > have a release date yet. > > On Monday, April 8, 2013 6:44:02 AM UTC-4, Andrew Wilson wrote:**** > > Hello, **** > > ** ** > > Was just wondering if this is in the pipeline and if so when a approx > release date would be?**** > > ** ** > > Thanks **** > > ** ** > > Andrew > > On Monday, April 16, 2012 4:23:11 PM UTC+2, Jinji wrote:**** > > Sorry, but no. The province map of the United Kingdom (GB!) includes > England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We don't have a map with the > resolution of counties.**** > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Dale.Dev <[email protected]> wrote:*** > * > > Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone is aware of a method to set UK counties as > selectable regions on a geochart, or am I correct in assuming that > google simply do not provide this functionality as of yet? > > If this is correct, would anyone be kind enough to sugest a viable > solution to acheive a similar level of functionality? > > Thanks very much > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Visualization API" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-visualization-api?hl=en.**** > > ** ** > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Visualization API" group.**** > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected].**** > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected].**** > > > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-visualization-api?hl=en.**** > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > **** > > ** ** > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Google Visualization API" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-visualization-api/UXXx75sy2d4/unsubscribe?hl=en > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-visualization-api?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > **** > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Visualization API" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-visualization-api?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Visualization API" group. 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