Subject: Re: New territory -> AX (or FI2AL) extremities
Date: Feb 26, 2004 @ 15:22
Author: m06079 ("m06079" <barbaria_longa@...>)
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> FI2ALe, FI2ALh, FI2ALn, FI2ALs, and FI2ALw are mentioned in<barbaria_longa@h...>
> http://www.asub.aland.fi/pdf/Statistik1999.pdf , paragraph 1.2:
> FI2ALn: Storklyndan, Brändö municipality, 60 deg. 39,3 N. Lat.
> FI2ALe: Skataskär, Kökar municipality, 21 deg. 19,6 E. Long.
> FI2ALs: Bogskär, Föglö municipality, 59 deg. 30,2 N. Lat.
> FI2ALw: Märket, Hammarland municipality, 19 deg. 8,2 E. Long
> FI2ALh: Orddalsklint, Saltvik municipality, 128.8 m. a.s.l.
>
> Also there: the length of the FI2AL boundaries:
> with Sweden (Märket): 8.4 n.m.
> with the province of Western Finland: 83.0 n.m.
> with international waters: 153.3 n.m.
>
> Peter S.
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "m06079"
> wrote:<knm@m...>
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Kevin Meynell
> wrote:conjunction
> > >
> > > >however aland apparently isnt ax at all in that case
> > >
> > > AL is an ISO 3166-2'ism, and should really be used in
> > with itsbp
> > > associated country code (i.e. FI-AL).
> >
> > right
> > so it is hard to see how this ax could ever be deftly wielded at
> >ever
> > 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
> getsystem per se
> > this ax into the right stuff
> > 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
> >
> >
> > AX was originally reserved for the
> > > Åland Islands in the ISO 3166-1 reserved list, so has some
> history.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Kevin Meynell