FSA_Counties_dd22_NonGeneralized Geospatial Dataset (Sustainable FSA Archive)

Corrects county geometries that were dropped or merged by the processing pipeline, mirroring the fixes applied in fsa-counties-dd17. What changed County identity is now FSA_STCOU + FIPS_C. The pipeline previously dissolved on FSA_STCOU alone, collapsing counties that share an FSA county code but represent distinct FIPS counties. The full-resolution archive now carries 3,245 county features, against 3,115 distinct FSA_STCOU values. Curved geometry is linearized with GDAL. 157 of the 3,509 source features are stored as MULTISURFACE in the geodatabase; these are now converted with vectortranslate -nlt CONVERT_TO_LINEAR -nlt MULTIPOLYGON rather than a GeoJSON round-trip. Small and coastal counties survive simplification. ms_simplify(keep_shapes = TRUE) restores 9 counties to the simplified TopoJSON, now 3,106 counties (was 3,097): | | | | |---|---|---| | 01003 Baldwin, AL | 22075 Plaquemines, LA | 23029 Washington, ME | | 48043 Brewster, TX | 48229 Hudspeth, TX | 48377 Presidio, TX | | 51610 Falls Church, VA | 51685 Manassas Park, VA | 53027 Grays Harbor, WA | Sliver gaps and holes removed via mapshaper -clean gap-fill-area=500, plus an added -clean pass over both the counties and states output layers. Finer TopoJSON precision: quantization raised from 1e5 to 1e6. Archive metadata This release also adds a .zenodo.json, so the Zenodo record is archived as a dataset under CC0 rather than as software under MIT. This matches the archive's licensing as documented in the README: the USDA source data are public domain (17 USC § 105) and the derivative TopoJSON is released under CC0. The MIT LICENSE continues to cover the R processing script. The stale CITATION.cff date-released is now current. Verification The automated pipeline completed successfully on fe846bb, and the published artifacts were compared against the locally generated outputs: the TopoJSON county and state ID sets match exactly (3,106 / 52), and the Parquet carries 3,245 features, all valid MULTIPOLYGON. Access the documentation: https://sustainable-fsa.com/fsa-counties-dd22/