Subject: Re: New territory -> AX (or FI2AL) extremities
Date: Feb 26, 2004 @ 14:01
Author: Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
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> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Kevin Meynell <knm@m...>wrote:
> >get
> > >however aland apparently isnt ax at all in that case
> >
> > AL is an ISO 3166-2'ism, and should really be used in conjunction
> with its
> > associated country code (i.e. FI-AL).
>
> right
> so it is hard to see how this ax could ever be deftly wielded at bp
>
> the best hope for it
> namely trimunicipal points within aaland
> would still need to be fi2al3xxyyzz
> rather than fi2ax3xxyyzz
>
> of course the latter might still be understandable
> as when someone bloops chnp rather than cnnp
>
> but unless there is a further change in the code
> only if aland really became an independent country would we ever
> this ax into the right stuffhistory.
> like say
> ax2xxyyzz
> in the case of those same trimunicipal points
>
>
> all of which conveniently underscores the point that
> tho we appropriate many of the iso digraphs here at bp as a
> convenience in identifying tripoints
> neither the tripoints themselves nor their relationships or
> hierarchies etc are in any way predicated upon the iso system per se
>
>
> AX was originally reserved for the
> > Åland Islands in the ISO 3166-1 reserved list, so has some
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Kevin Meynell