Currently, the counties from the NYT source are assigned IDs that don't abide to any standard. If they were assigned an FIPS county code which are used by the US Census Bureau to uniquely identify geographic features, it would be much easier to join, identify, and parse.
I'm not sure the best approach to implementing this while maintaining backwards compatibility. However if this is something others are also interested in and we can come up with a suitable strategy, I would be happy to open a PR for this if the team has the capacity to review it.
Currently, the counties from the NYT source are assigned IDs that don't abide to any standard. If they were assigned an FIPS county code which are used by the US Census Bureau to uniquely identify geographic features, it would be much easier to join, identify, and parse.
I'm not sure the best approach to implementing this while maintaining backwards compatibility. However if this is something others are also interested in and we can come up with a suitable strategy, I would be happy to open a PR for this if the team has the capacity to review it.