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UK United Kingdom #692

Open DavidViral opened 4 years ago

DavidViral commented 4 years ago

UK is not a province of the country United Kingdom

yetzt commented 4 years ago

No, but the United Kingdom is split in different areas, such as Gibraltar, some channel islands and – most important – the whole rest that is for simplicitys sake called United Kingdom.

DavidViral commented 4 years ago

So duplicating the country name in the province field is to indicate there will be only one record for the country - no subdivisions?

JiPiBi commented 4 years ago

If you look at France's lines it's the same : France as Province for the mainland and when the data will be correctly labelled ;-( one line by territory (like Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guyana ...) I had suggested to use Mainland France for the Province column but not chosen (for the moment ?) Perhaps in the future , it will be interesting for you to have England, Wales, Scotland.... as provinces

Edit : sorry already answered in your other thread , difficult to remind all the names ;-)

neuroactive commented 4 years ago

Duplicating the country name in the region field to represent the "mainland" is just an ugly hack. Denmark has a similar issue. If you are going to include a region field, it should contain accurate data.

JiPiBi commented 4 years ago

@neuroactive You can try to make them change Good luck :-)

yetzt commented 4 years ago

@neuroactive i agree. But worse than an an ugly hack is changing the convention and breaking stuff downstream.