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*'''''Needed:''' - a list of ISO/Zip codes for Canadian states'' | *'''''Needed:''' - a list of ISO/Zip codes for Canadian states'' | ||
*'''''Todo:''' - check that the country names listed correspond to the ones actually used as categories in the wiki.'' | *'''''Todo:''' - check that the country names listed correspond to the ones actually used as categories in the wiki.'' | ||
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| + | You perhaps miss the point slightly. Codes are brilliant for use in US states, and countries like UK and NZ where those abbreviations are ''commonly used by people already'', but they're not much good when people don't already use them. Who knows where AO is? I certainly don't. I'd much prefer any foreign neighbour graticules around here to be listed as "Ireland" and "France" than "IR" and "FR", or whatever the codes are. These pages are read by people, not computers. -- [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] 12:39, 9 April 2009 (UTC) | ||
Revision as of 12:39, 9 April 2009
- Add any shorthand I may have missed. Codes may be ambiguous if the context is clear.. i.e. graticules on the border to Indiana won't confuse "IN" with India.
- Needed: - a list of ISO/Zip codes for Canadian states
- Todo: - check that the country names listed correspond to the ones actually used as categories in the wiki.
You perhaps miss the point slightly. Codes are brilliant for use in US states, and countries like UK and NZ where those abbreviations are commonly used by people already, but they're not much good when people don't already use them. Who knows where AO is? I certainly don't. I'd much prefer any foreign neighbour graticules around here to be listed as "Ireland" and "France" than "IR" and "FR", or whatever the codes are. These pages are read by people, not computers. -- Benjw 12:39, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
