[OSM-talk] ANNOUNCE: talk-gb

[SteveC]

* @ 24/10/06 12:09:10 PM Phillip.Barnett at itn.co.uk wrote:
> The letters 'gb' are in fact the ISO country code for 'United Kingdom'

which is why I chose it :-)

and, um, shouldnt this debate be on talk-gb? :-P

> (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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