1.3.0

Author: benkeen

.gitignore

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+.idea*
+.idea/*
+node_modules*

README.md

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 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/benkeen/country-region-data.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/benkeen/country-region-data)
 
-### About
+This repo contains a static JSON file of country names, country short codes, country regions, and country region short 
+codes. All country names and short codes are guaranteed to be unique. Similarly, all regions and region short
+codes *within a single country* are guaranteed to be unique.
 
-This repo contain the source data for the [country-region-selector](https://github.com/benkeen/country-region-selector) 
-script. As I plan on creating multiple versions of this script (React, Polymer, X-Tags, etc), I've moved the source 
-data here so that each of the repos can pull from the single source. 
+I created this repo to house the raw data used for the [country-region-selector](https://github.com/benkeen/country-region-selector),
+[react-country-region-selector](https://github.com/benkeen/react-country-region-selector) scripts. I didn't want to 
+duplicate it in multiple places and hey, seems like this it could be useful to people as a standalone.
 
-See the `data.json` file for the data. It's of the form: 
+See the `data.json` file for the data. The JSON is of the form:
 
 ```javascript
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 ### Contribute
 
-The state/prov abbreviations are not yet complete, so pull requests welcome! For more information, see:
-https://github.com/benkeen/country-region-selector/issues/2#issuecomment-98549680
+The state/prov abbreviations are not yet complete, so pull requests welcome! Regions that need ISO3166-2 codes can 
+be identified by having a missing `shortCode` property for each region. You can find them by cloning the repo, then 
+running:
+
+```
+npm install
+grunt findIncomplete
+```
+
+That'll list all countries with regions that are missing region short codes. Wikipedia has a lot of the data listed here:
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2
 
-Regions that need ISO3166-2 codes can be identified by having a missing `shortCode` property for each region.
 
-Before contributing a PR, you might want to validate the JSON content. To do that, do the following on your command line:
+### Data Validation
+
+Before contributing a PR, please validate the JSON content (if you don't, Travis will catch it for you!). To do that, 
+run the following on your command line:
 
 ```
 npm install
 grunt validate
 ```
 
-That'll throw an error if the JSON is invalid.
+That'll throw an error if the JSON is invalid or if some duplicate names were accidentally introduced. The error messages 
+are pretty clear, I think.
+
+
+### Changelog
+
+- `1.3.0` - July 1, 2016. Improved validation added to ensure uniqueness of country names, short codes, region names and 
+shortcodes. Various country region additions / updates.
+- `1.2.1` - Jun 7, 2016. Taiwan country name change. Travis build status added + basic JSON syntax validation. 
+- `1.2.0` - May 14, 2015. Lots more region short codes (again, thanks Ellen!). JSON syntax fixes.
+- `1.1.1` - April 30, 2016. JSON syntax fixes. 
+- `1.1.0` - April 30, 2016. Looooads of new region shortcodes added thanks to [ellenhutchings](https://github.com/ellenhutchings). Thanks, Ellen!
+- `1.0.0` - April 29, 2016. initial version
+
 
 ### License