[Pkg-isocodes-devel] Please add Alexis Darasse to the iso-codes project

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Alexis Darrasse (alexis at ortsa.com):

> Thank you for your warm welcome :) I started a review of the iso_3166_2.xml
> file and I would like I confirmation on my understanding on the
> conventions we are following, before changing entries that don't seem to
> respect them.
> 
> So, it seems to me that if a country is included in one of the ISO
> 3166-2 newsletters we:
> 
> 1. use the exact same names, even if they contain a redundant string
> (like "Region") in all of them. (in my last count this was respected 6
> times and not respected twice)

Yep, that was the "spirit" of the work I did a few weeks ago. As this
was a quite tedious work (involving a lot of copy/paste from PDF files
to be sure not breaking various characters I have no idea how to enter
on my keyboard), there are certainly mistakes there.

> 2. when ISO gives variants of the names, use only the first one if they
> are in different columns but use both if the second one is in square
> brackets or parentheses. Generaly when there are multiple columns it
> corresponds to different transliteration schemes or official languages,
> while the others seem more as unofficial variants to me, but that's just
> my interpretation.

I'm not sure, here. Really..:-)

> 
> 3. when ISO gives higher-level subdivisions without assigning them
> global codes (e.g. autonomous communities in Spain), we put them as-is.
> I have however the impression that the geographical_region element
> should be used instead, as it is the case for Italy. We also don't use
> the information on the relationships between regions and subdivisions
> that is present in the ISO, maybe we should add an optional attribute in
> iso_3166_2_entry?


The general point would be being as close as possible of the standard,
so, well, it's up to you.


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