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[Post New]30/01/2010 01:06:50
    Subject: Aland Islands (AX) Capital - Mariehamn ???
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artigas



Joined: 15/11/2009 17:09:42
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Greetings Marc -

Aland Islands (part of Finland) got its own designation as a country with the ISO code of AX. However, there are no entries for AX.

Under Finland (FI):
Aland Islands is geoname_id=661883 (ISLS)
Mariehamn is geoname_id3041732 (PPLA)

Would you please create a country entry and capital entry for AX to start that country?

Thanks In Advance.

Regards,
Robert Artigas
[Post New]06/02/2010 22:59:51
    Subject: Re:Aland Islands (AX) Capital - Mariehamn ???
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marc



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It is true that AX has a code, the code is included in the country info file http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/countryInfo.txt

I don't really want to change the country code of the toponyms, because it is part of Finland and I don't understand why it has it's own code.
For Guernsey and others we have assigned both codes, we could also do this for Åland.
I would prefer to make a consistent list of all dependent entities before changing anything. Otherwise it will not be consistent over all countries.

Best

Marc
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