[OSM-talk] ANNOUNCE: talk-gb

[Lester Caine]

Barnett, Phillip wrote:
> 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'

As do Jersey and Guernsey ( JE and GG )
Something that has been seen is UK beingused for Ukraine when in fact it 
should be UA - UK had been reserved so as not to allocate it - at least 
the last time I looked ;)

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