-- Patrick Andries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is rumored to have mumbled on
Montag, 10. Juli 2000 10:06 Uhr -0800 regarding Landmark name format:
> Could someone help me define how users in different countries would
> expect a geographic landmark's name to be displayed.
>
> If in Canada we would locate a vehicle/train/asset the following way :
>
> 15 km SE of Montreal, Quebec -- English
> 15 km SE de Montréal (Québec) -- French
>
> How would people locate them in Russia ?
>
> 15 km NW of Samara, Oblast name ?, Russia ?
Wow, why did you pick Samara? I've been there twice...
> I am more interested in the structure that the actual character or
> language encoding here.
Actually I think that in Germany you might not even specify the state, so
that you would have only one level. You only specify the state for
little-known places. You would *never* say anything like "K�ln, NRW".
Cheers, Sebastian
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Sebastian Hagedorn
Ehrenfeldg�rtel 156, 50823 K�ln, Germany
http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/
