Yes, Google should fix this. Andalusia is AN On Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 12:36:38 PM UTC+1, RickTesty wrote: > > The short_name results given from geocode for > administrative_area_level_1 and 2 are incorrect for Spain and other > countries when compared with the offical ISO 3166-2 values . For > example, the result for any municipality in the state of Andalucia > are: > > administrative_area_level_2 is "Malaga" in both short_name and > long_name results > - the correct ISO-3166-2 code is "MA" > > administrative_area_level_1 is "AL" for short and "Andalusia" for long > - the correct ISO-3166-2 code is "AN" > > These problems occur for most (but not all) cities in Spain - either > the wrong code or no code at all are returned for one or both level-1 > and level-2 results. The above error for Andalusia is important > because the returned code "AL" belongs to another entity "ES-AL" is > the province of Almeria, not the state of Andalusia. The problem is > not restricted to Spain - I receive similar errors for Germany. > > Please note that it is only short_name which is incorrect. > > So: > 1. Is Google using some other coding system than ISO-3166? > 2. Is it possible for the data/results to be corrected? > 3. Is there some other resource which returns correct results? > > I hope there is a solution to this issue because it makes the whole > mapping API almost useless for many countires. > > RT
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