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An open standard for the discovery of geospatial resources on the Web.
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add recommendation for contact country as ISO 3166 alpha-3 (#261) #297

Closed tomkralidis closed 1 year ago

tomkralidis commented 1 year ago

Fixes #261

m-mohr commented 1 year ago

Are there any statistics for alpha-2 vs. alpha-3? I feel like I see alpha-2 much more often, but might be biased...

Otherwise, looks good.

tomkralidis commented 1 year ago

alpha-2 is probably the most popular. alpha-3 is used in a few geospatial metadata standards.

How about relaxing to just "ISO 3166" (which would then allow for alpha-2, alpha-3, or numeric)? Some tooling (Python, JavaScript) have support for these interchangeably.

m-mohr commented 1 year ago

I don't feel strongly either way, so that works for me.

tomkralidis commented 1 year ago

PR updated.

cnreediii commented 1 year ago

The internet RFC's that are part of the standards framework for the NG-911 deployment use alpha-2. There is a core concept called a location object. There is a geodetic (coordinates) and a civic (address) LO. The civic LO uses alpha-2 so all NG-911 deployments in the US, Canada and other nations (Europe) will use alpha-2. The civic LO standard is referenced as normative in numerous other internet standards including DHCP.