On Nov 17, 2:21 pm, "warden [Andrew Leach - Maps API Guru]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wasn't justifying it: I was explaining what the UN did.
I understand. And I was just saying that the UN are useless. (I don't like them) ;-) > There aren't all that many other places where a > province of one country has the same name as a sovereign country > adjacent to it. Guinea has a province called Mali, which is also the name of a neighbouring country: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=mali,guinea&sll=11.523088,-2.680664&sspn=31.477151,44.824219&ie=UTF8&ll=11.695273,-3.120117&spn=31.458685,44.824219&z=5 It is true that such cases are few, but the UN are not applying that same criteria to all, are they? > > By the same measure, the UN should find a way to distinguish > > England,UK from England,AR > > That's just silly. Whoever's heard of a tiny insignificant place in > the middle of nowhere? Or even that place in Arkansas? :-) I have, (after searching), and now you have too. ;-) -- Marcelo - http://maps.forum.nu -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
