[Geocoding] Country code for Hong Kong geocodes to "cn" instead of "hk"

[Milo van der Linden]

According to wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong, Hong Kong
became a part of China on the first of july, 1997. I do not know if this
affects the official country code.

2018-08-31 14:58 GMT+02:00 Leo Orson <orsonleo3 at gmail.com>:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I tried to geocode "Hong Kong" (https://nominatim.
> openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=Hong Kong&format=json&
> addressdetails=1&accept-language=en), and the country code comes out to
> be "cn".
>
> But according to this list (https://wiki.openstreetmap.
> org/wiki/Nominatim/Country_Codes), I found the country code for Hong Kong
> to be "HK", and hence I believe we should be getting HK instead of CN.
>
> I did some research and I believe the Relation: China (270056) (
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/270056/history#map=6/20.056/114.675)
> is the reason. Not sure how to fix this, hence thought of mailing it here.
>
> Regards,
> Leo.
>
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