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Unincorporated US territories versus colonial territories

Open thursdayb opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

Are the differences between the handling unincorporated US territories versus past colonial territories intentional? For instance, places like Puerto Rico were labeled as part of the Spanish empire at times, but are not labeled as part of the US in more recent maps Screen Shot 2022-08-17 at 12 48 56 Screen Shot 2022-08-17 at 12 49 21 .

thursdayb avatar Aug 17 '22 19:08 thursdayb

Annotations in the infoboxes on https://historicborders.app/ are not stored in the data in this repositroy but are loaded dynamically from Wikipedia, to my knowledge everytime the page loads. To change the infobox content, you need to change the content of the Wikipedia page itself.

aourednik avatar Nov 23 '22 23:11 aourednik