Immich Traditional Chinese Geodata Deep Dive (5): Rebuilding Taiwan's Administrative Divisions from Official Map Data
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The previous post, on translating place names with Wikidata, was about how much you have to pay for trustworthy translations when no official map data exists. This post is the opposite case: Taiwan has complete, free, regularly updated official map data, so the processing can be simple to the point of being boring, and that is the best thing about it.
This post doubles as a full walkthrough of one handler. The pipeline post covered the fixed extract pipeline and the per-country insertion points. Here we look at what Taiwan actually puts into those slots.