[OSM-talk] ANNOUNCE: talk-gb

Robert Hart Robert.Hart at BuroHappold.com
Tue Oct 24 11:48:51 BST 2006


> > But we wouldnt want to exlude the Isle of Man which is part of GB
but
> not UK ;)
> 
> How's that then, considering that the UK stands for the "United
Kingdom of
> Great
> Britain and Northern Ireland"?

Isle of Man is a crown dependency, which makes things kinda fuzzy, but
as far as I can tell it's not really part of either. Wikipedia is your
friend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_dependency


Rob


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