{"id":4159,"date":"2011-09-10T17:17:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T16:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=4159"},"modified":"2011-09-10T17:17:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T16:17:14","slug":"nearest-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/nearest-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearest country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/denmark-nc.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/denmark-nc.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Denmark coloured by the nearest country\" width=\"153\" height=\"156\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4160\" \/><\/a>As a variation on my map of the <a href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/18\/4049\/\">nearest capitals<\/a>, I had a quick look at determining the nearest foreign country for all parts of a country.  This is best done on a per-country basis, so here&#8217;s a map of Denmark allocated into German, Swedish and Norwegian &#8220;sectors&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the main use of this would be to determine which languages to teach in schools on a regional basis.<\/p>\n<p>However, I&#8217;m not sure how useful it is &ndash; I guess a large country (such as Germany) will influence a larger area than a small country (such as Luxembourg), so I guess I should build some kind of  population weighting into the program, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a variation on my map of the nearest capitals, I had a quick look at determining the nearest foreign country for all parts of a country. This is best done on a per-country basis, so here&#8217;s a map of Denmark allocated into German, Swedish and Norwegian &#8220;sectors&#8221;. I guess the main use of this would be to determine which languages to teach in schools on a regional basis. However, I&#8217;m not sure how useful it is &ndash; I guess a large country (such as Germany) will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-geography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}