geoBoundaries : A Political Administrative Boundaries Dataset (www.geoboundaries.org)
Version 6.0.0 ('Modeg'); Released 9/14/23
Issues: 64 issues closed, covering a wide range of improvements to the dataset.
New API: Our old (gbRequest.html) API will be fully deprecated soon, after a year of live testing of the updated API. Future requests should take the following format:
https://www.geoboundaries.org/api/current/gbOpen/[3-LETTER-ISO-CODE]/[ADM-LEVEL]/
More information can be found at https://www.geoboundaries.org/api.html.
Updated R Package: With the update of our API, the original R package for geoBoundaries will stop functioning. As we could not get in touch with the previous maintainer, we have forked the package and updated it accordingly. We will begin work to get it integrated into CRAN in the near future, as well as update some other pieces of the library (documentation, capabilities, and a few other pieces). A huge thanks to the original authors, as we wouldn't have explored R without your encouragement; if anyone is interested in contributing to this effort, we would be very excited to have you (as we mostly use python over here!).
CGAZ Updates: We have done another pass at updating the CGAZ product, which should generally have more consistent attribute information now.
More Regular Builds: We're making big strides towards getting more regular builds, to reduce the time between when a PR is accepted and the introduction of the data into the final dataset. Our average cadence is about once a week, today, and we hope to get to a consistent nightly cadence soon!
Full Changelog: https://github.com/wmgeolab/geoBoundaries/compare/v5.0.0...v6.0.0
Released on December 19, 2022, geoBoundaries 5.0 had a number of changes - the most important of which being a large change in how our Git repository is stored in order to future-proof the project. As such, archival releases have been moved into seperate git repositories. These archives will also be linked on the website. Going forward, all future releases should be contained within this repository. A big thanks to GitHub's engineers for helping resolve a number of challenges related to storing our database on GH servers ❤️.
| Release | Date | Link |
|---|---|---|
| geoBoundaries 4.0.0 | August 31, 2021 | 299e006 |
| geoBoundaries 3.0.0 | June 5, 2020 | 7c8dbc5 |
| geoBoundaries 2.0.1 | December 7, 2019 | 375ea48 |
| geoBoundaries 1.3.4 | November 11, 2018 | d3f7490 |
The changes in 5.0.0 are noted below: Version 5.0.0 ('Ceald'); Released 12/19/2022
Version 4.0.0 ('Waystone'); Released 8/31/2021
Version 3.0.0 ('Vintas'); Released 6/5/2020