Subject: Re: New territory<br/>
Date: Feb 21, 2004 @ 17:02<br/>
Author: m06079 (&quot;m06079&quot; &lt;barbaria_longa@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-110600851">--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, Kevin Meynell &lt;knm@m...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; &gt;however aland apparently isnt ax at all in that case<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; AL is an ISO 3166-2&#39;ism, and should really be used in conjunction <br/>
 </span></blockquote>with its <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; associated country code (i.e. FI-AL). <br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>right<br/>
so it is hard to see how this ax could ever be deftly wielded at bp<br/>
<br/>
the best hope for it<br/>
namely trimunicipal points within aaland<br/>
would still need to be fi2al3xxyyzz<br/>
rather than fi2ax3xxyyzz<br/>
<br/>
of course the latter might still be understandable<br/>
as when someone bloops chnp rather than cnnp<br/>
<br/>
but unless there is a further change in the code<br/>
only if aland really became an independent country would we ever get <br/>
this ax into the right stuff<br/>
like say <br/>
ax2xxyyzz<br/>
in the case of those same trimunicipal points<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
all of which conveniently underscores the point that <br/>
tho we appropriate many of the iso digraphs here at bp as a <br/>
convenience in identifying tripoints<br/>
neither the tripoints themselves nor their relationships or <br/>
hierarchies etc are in any way predicated upon the iso system per se<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
AX was originally reserved for the <br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> &gt; Åland Islands in the ISO 3166-1 reserved list, so has some history.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Regards,<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Kevin Meynell </span></blockquote></div>