And then the readme goes to great lengths to say that most of the work it does is to ensure the coastlines are closed polygons, because the rest of the GIS pipeline requires them to be.
And then immediately says "except Antarctica, because in most projections it ends up being an open polygon, so there's hardcoded special cases for Antarctica to allow it to be an open polygon that gets closed using projection-specific hacks"
Mapping is like Unicode, deeply human and intricate and flawed ❤️
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