Hi Jonathon, I used to work for The Office for National Statistics here in the UK. UK Geography is a constantly changing headache. They have got quite a good description why on their website. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/default.asp
They also have a list of legal names, codes etc.. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/faq_names_codes_legal.asp Rupert Howell Provolve Ltd Technopole Kingston Crescent Portsmouth PO2 8FA Tel: 020 8144 7877 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.provolve.com -----Original Message----- From: Jonathon -- Improov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 February 2007 13:07 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Country names and state/county/province names follow ISO? Andrew, I can't find any comprehensive ISO 3166-2 listings either. The URL (statoids.com) I mentioned seem to have information to ISO 3166-2, probably because the author actually bought the ISO 3166-2 databases from iso.org at http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/05database/index.html . I haven't verified this yet. Anyway, I heard the UK counties are a tricky thing to track, like say for Cleveland that is no longer existent but is still thought to exist by many folks living near that area. Ie, if I take out Cleveland in OFBiz data (assuming it was there), many UK users would complain. Jonathon Andrew Sykes wrote: > Jonathon, > > At the time I wrote these, I couldn't find any such resource - don't > know why - so no, they do not follow ISO 3166-2, if you'd like to look > into this, that would be great - unfortunately I don't have much time > at the moment to help - sorry. > > - Andrew > > On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 15:13 +0800, Jonathon -- Improov wrote: >> Do the state/county/province names in table GEO follow ISO 3166-2? >> >> See eg in GEO: Surrey in UK is 'GBR-SURR' rather than 'GBR-SRY'. >> >> Is the following resource valid?: >> >> http://www.statoids.com/ugb.html >> >> Jonathon
