Talk:BPLAN Geography Data

Files Duplicated

There are a number of duplicate BPLAN files on the wiki, all of which are orphaned, should the duplicated ones be deleted?

Main File	Duplicate File	Notes
File:Geography 20141214 to 20150516 from 20150302.txt.gz	File:20150302 ReferenceData.gz	Zipped contents identical
File:Geography 20151213 to 20160514 from 20160126.txt.gz	File:20160126 ReferenceData.gz	Zipped contents identical
File:Geography 20161211 to 20171209 from 20170124.txt.gz	File:20170127 ReferenceData.gz	Zipped contents identical
File:Geography 20161211 to 20171209 from 20170823.txt.gz	File:20170830 ReferenceData.gz	Zipped contents differ, main file does not have 1155 REF+SER records and 9 TLD records (main file also has PIT footer inconsistent with TLD record count)

--ThomasWood (talk) 04:00, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

Files with PIT record consistency errors

A number of the (non-duplicate) BPLAN data files have PIT record values inconsistent with the contained number of records. Flagging this up here in case a data processing tool upstream has some undetected bugs that is causing these records to be unintentionally dropped. In particular, the 9 missing TLD entries from the File:Geography 20161211 to 20171209 from 20170823.txt.gz file appear to have a character that is only valid in the Windows-1252 encoding, so may cause some tools to reject these entries. (Differences between the 9 missing rows determined via the two different versions of this file published on the wiki, as noted in the previous section).

File	Count Type	REF	TLD	LOC	PLT	NWK	TLK
File:20140116 ReferenceData.gz	PIT	1405	628	10468	3487	37093	1047866
	Actual	247	628	10468	3487	37093	1047866
File:Geography 20151213 to 20160514 from 20160126.txt.gz	PIT	1422	610	10874	3663	39110	1071772
	Actual	257	610	10873	3663	39108	1071769
File:Geography 20161211 to 20171209 from 20170823.txt.gz	PIT	262	638	11062	3948	40119	1101022
	Actual	262	629	11062	3948	40119	1101022

--ThomasWood (talk) 04:00, 22 February 2019 (UTC)