<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Minh Nguyen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:minh@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us" target="_blank">minh@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 2014-11-07 22:35, Greg Morgan wrote:<br>
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In contrast to the addr:state debate that we are having, I always<br>
use addr:country key with the "US" value. The difference here is that<br>
addr:country is an agreed upon ISO standard.<br>
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To be pedantic, the two-letter state abbreviations are codified in ISO 3166-2:<br>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:US" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<u></u>ISO_3166-2:US</a><br>
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The standard covers virtually all of the countries in ISO 3166-1 with alphabetic, numeric, or alphanumeric codes. In the U.S., the codes are instantly recognizable as USPS abbreviations, but I don't know whether the codes elsewhere are as commonly recognizable.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not a Canadian but can confirm the ISO 3166-2:CA abbreviations are immediately recognizable as the standard Canada Post/Postes Canada abbreviations.</div></div></div></div>