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Change in administrative divisions of France and update of EBT city database

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 10:30 pm
by LucasFr
We French EBTers are in need of some help!

Since the 1st, January of 2016, mainland France is divided into 13 "régions" (it was 22 before) due to some administrative changes. A "région" is still made of many "départements", another smaller division. For instance the new "région" temporarily called "Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine" is a merge between three old "régions", namely "Alsace", "Champagne-Ardenne" and "Lorraine". We'd like to reflect the new "régions" to match reality.

As a city manager I have moved some "départements" from one "région" to another: everything's fine at this point, the new "région" is displaying its subsumed "départements". But cities attached to a "département" are still in the old "région", they don't seem to follow automatically.

Ceric, another city manager, tried to display a city then click on the edit button. It seems to be enough to update it. However we have 17655 cities at the moment so that's a lot of clicks! Are there indexes to update or to refresh that would avoid us that task?

Thanks :wink: