Difference between revisions of "User talk:ReletBot/Country codes"

Latest revision as of 22:21, 14 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

Do you mean postal codes for Canadian provinces and territories? (We don't have states). We have very detailed postal codes, but I could give you the letters they start with for each province. -Robyn

Yes, any commonly recognized (among Canadians) two- or three-letter code would do nicely. Unless you'd say that having the full name written out in the Canadian graticule templates isn't that bad after all. ;) -- relet 19:26, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Oh, thanks starbird! -- relet 19:27, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Québec should be PQ (Province du Québec), not QC :). --Meghan 22:02, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

No Meghan, it was changed years ago, because Québec objected to being singled out for the imperialistic reminder that it was a province not a sovereign nation. official list -Robyn 22:06, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

My bad :D --Meghan 22:21, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Todo: - check that the country names listed correspond to the ones actually used as categories in the wiki.

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 *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''
+Do you mean postal codes for Canadian provinces and territories? (We don't have states). We have very detailed postal codes, but I could give you the letters they start with for each province. -[[User:Robyn|Robyn]]
+:Yes, any commonly recognized (among Canadians) two- or three-letter code would do nicely. Unless you'd say that having the full name written out in the Canadian graticule templates isn't that bad after all. ;) -- [[User:relet|relet]] 19:26, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
+::Oh, thanks [[User:starbird|starbird]]! -- [[User:relet|relet]] 19:27, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
+::: Québec should be PQ (Province du Québec), not QC :). --[[User:Meghan|Meghan]] 22:02, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
+::::No Meghan, it was changed years ago, because Québec objected to being singled out for the imperialistic reminder that it was a province not a sovereign nation. [http://www.canadapost.ca/tools/pg/manual/PGaddress-e.asp#1380608 official list] -[[User:Robyn|Robyn]] 22:06, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
+:::::My bad :D --[[User:Meghan|Meghan]] 22:21, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 *'''''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.  -- [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] 12:39, 9 April 2009 (UTC)