[OSM-talk] ANNOUNCE: talk-gb

[Barnett, Phillip]

The letters 'gb' are in fact the ISO country code for 'United Kingdom'
(of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) weirdly enough, not for 'Great
Britain'
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists
/list-en1.html#sz

So talk-gb actually is correct, and will include Northern Ireland, as
I'm sure SteveC knew when he set it up. 
It does still exclude the Isle of Man though, which has its own ISO
designation, of 'im'

Phillip

-----Original Message-----
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matthew-osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk
Sent: 24 October 2006 11:02
To: Nick Black
Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] ANNOUNCE: talk-gb

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 09:43:15AM +0100, Nick Black wrote:
> 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"?

I therefore always assumed that UK is a superset of GB.

--
Matthew

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