[Maps] Missing provinces on Italy

[markov00]

Kibana version:
master

Describe the bug:
The vector layer of Italy provinces https://maps.elastic.co/#file/italy_provinces all 4 provinces from the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region are missing (north eastern part of italy).

They are Gorizia, Pordenone, Udine, Trieste.

I also suggest few more things:

• add a italy region layer with all the 20 italian regions (it's usually more used than the provinces one)
• instead of getting community data from OSM, you can use the European Eurostat, that is the statistical office of the Europen Union that take care of harmonizing all the statistics around european states. In particular you can use, free of changes, the NUTS classification and the available shapefiles https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/nuts/background that includes geometries shapes for 3 levels of geopolitical areas harmonized between all the european states.
• where I can find the metadata of the layer? I'm interested in knowing the reference date of these provinces, because their shape can change in the years

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-gis

[nickpeihl]

Thanks @markov00.

As I understand it, the provinces of Friuli-Venezia Giulia were disbanded in 2017. Please let me know if I'm incorrect.

I like your suggestion of adding a layer for regions of Italy. Tracking that issue here.

We use OpenStreetMap (OSM) and Wikidata for generating most of our region layers and fall back to other sources then data is not available. The OdBL license of OSM and Public Domain license of Wikidata are very permissive. Vector data can be rapidly generated from OSM and Wikidata using SPARQL queries in Sophox.

We have an open issue with respect to adding NUTS codes to vector layers. This is still being investigated.

Providing metadata about our layers is a good idea. Currently, we only expose the attribution data on maps.elastic.co. Tracking that issue here.

[markov00]

@nickpeihl part of the administrative functions of the provinces of Friuli-Venezia Giulia are moved to municipalities some other to the region. But from a geographical point of view all the provinces of Friuli-Venezia Giulia remains here :)

If the layer is a pure administrative/function level (that regards functions related to education, agriculture, social policy, youth policy etc) so you can suppress it but you have to add the region or municipalities depending on the data you are visualising. If you are using data related to geographies, nobody blowup the FVG provinces :D so you can still have it on the map

[nickpeihl]

@markov00 Thank you for the clarification. I have opened an issue to track this on the ems-file-service repo.

[nickpeihl]

The Elastic Maps Service has been updated with the missing provinces. elastic/ems-file-service#94