You are right: the linked versions don't have the country name labels.
However, if you download the full files (see the very last link on the
page), they are included. Furthermore, they only offer RDF and N-triples
options that include the labels; no JSON. Strange way to put up this data,
if you ask me, but hopefully better than screen scraping.

Tom

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> > It can be found at
> > http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas.html
>
> > Look near the bottom of the page for links to the codes as RDF,
> N-triples,
> > and JSON.
>
> Right, so like I keep saying, as far as I can tell, those files are lists
> of URLs, one for each code. (Or technically lists of RDF-triples, but where
> two parts of each triple is identical in every triple just saying "this URL
> is part of the marc geographic vocabulary", and then each triple has a
> unique URL representing a code).
>
> And I'd need to do a seperate HTTP request for each code ( a couple
> hundred?) to actually get the label(s).
>
> Am I missing something? That's not a very convenient way to get the data
> for the very common use case of wanting to construct a mapping from code to
> label, right? Or that's just me?
>