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kamm



Joined: 15/05/2009 09:14:20
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Hi,

I've notice some records in admin1CodesASCII.txt that have a no value after the country.

I'm not sure how to fix these, so I'll list them here:

Code:
code 	name 	nameAscii 	geonameid
 NO. 	NO. 	Bouvetoya (general) 	6620379
 TH. 	TH. 	Changwat Phra Nakhon 	1607533
 BT. 	Gasa District 	Gasa District 	1252578
 JE. 	JE. 	Jersey (general) 	6620384
 KH. 	KH. 	Khet Siemreab-Otar Meanchey 	1822210
 LA. 	LA. 	Khoueng Viangchan 	1652238
 ID. 	ID. 	Kotamadya Tegal 	1624492
 RU. 	Leningradskaya Oblast' 	Leningradskaya Oblast' 	536199
 PH. 	PH. 	Marawi City 	1701053
 ES. 	ES. 	Melilla 	6362988
 NE. 	NE. 	Niamey Departement de 	2440481
 SI. 	SI. 	Obcina [historical] Lendava 	3196680
 EH. 	EH. 	Oued Ed-Dahab-Lagouira 	6547304
 CV. 	CV. 	Porto Novo 	6930717
 CL. 	CL. 	Region de Tarapaca 	3870116
 TW. 	TW. 	T'ai-pei Hsien 	1665148


I hope that's the right thing to do..?

P.s. I think Melilla - 6362988 should be 00 like Ceuta - 2519582



Cheers,
kamm...

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marc



Joined: 08/12/2005 07:39:47
Messages: 4412
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Hi Kamm

'00' means more or less 'we don't now', the same as no code at all. Better would be to find a useful value for the code.
Ceuta and Melilla play a strange role in Spain, they are neither real provinces nor real municipios, they are something in between. Sometimes they are more like provinces sometimes they are more like municipios.

Best

Marc

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atanask



Joined: 22/05/2009 13:13:51
Messages: 1
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Hi,
Great site, I'm fascinated with the amount of information maintained.

I've seen a wrong entry in admin1Codes.txt

BD.33 Mikhaylovgrad

This would mean Mikhaylovgrad is an administrative unit in Bangla Desh.

But Mikhaylovgrad is the old name of a city in Bulgaria - now Montana,
Listed in the same file twice
BG.33 Montana
BG.47 Montana

So the Bangladeshi entry is a typo, see e.g. in the BG file

729113 Obshtina Montana Obshtina Montana Gradska Obshtina Mikhaylovgrad,Montana,Obshhina Montana,Obshtina Mikhaylovgrad,Îáùèíà Ìîíòàíà 43.4666667 23.2 A ADM2 BG BG 47 MON29 0 212 Europe/Sofia 2007-04-05


I struggled with the User manual, but these admin codes are not seen on the map, and in order to edit something you should first see it.
What would be the way to edit an error like this?
marc



Joined: 08/12/2005 07:39:47
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Thanks. I have removed the wrong entries for Bangladesh they will disappear with the next dump tomorrow. They came from mixing up fips country codes with iso country codes. BG stands for Bangladesh in Fips but for Bulgaria in ISO.

Best

Marc

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