Finding metadata for Fusion Table used in Google Earth Engine

Question

I'm just starting to learn GEE, and I see a number of places use a Fusion Table that has polygons of world countries. It's used in the Google Earth Engine manual, tutorials, and questions on stackexchange. The Fusion Table is ft:1tdSwUL7MVpOauSgRzqVTOwdfy17KDbw-1d9omPw and can (currently) be found here. But I can't find any reasonable metadata for it. I've tried:

1. getting the metadata within GEE:

   // Country Fusion Table
   var countries =  ee.FeatureCollection('ft:1tdSwUL7MVpOauSgRzqVTOwdfy17KDbw-1d9omPw');
   
   // Get a list of all metadata properties.
   var properties = countries.propertyNames();
   print('Metadata properties: ', properties); // ee.List of metadata properties
   
   // Get a specific metadata property.
   var name = countries.get('name');
   print(name); // ee.Number
   var docid = countries.get('DocID');
   print(docid);
   

   But all that it returns is:

   Metadata properties: 
   ["name","DocID"]
      0: name
      1: DocID
   Countries.csv
   1tdSwUL7MVpOauSgRzqVTOwdfy17KDbw-1d9omPw
   

2. Going directly to the Fusion Table and going to file > about, which shows this:

   

   Which still says nothing of where the info actually comes from or who created it.

So how do I find out more info about this particular dataset, and how do I evaluate the data quality of Fusion Tables more generally?

Answer 1

I also faced a similar challenge but after keen research, I discovered that Google dropped Fusion Tables with their visualization capabilities. Alternative recommendations can be found here,