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Subject: RE: [emergency] EDXL - political subdivisions
Art, ISO 3166-1 uses the term <country> to specify the nation. I suggest we keep the <country> designation; ISO 3166-2 uses the term <subdivision> to describe a known geographic area (i.e.; province, county, township, etc.) so your suggested change for using <primaryDivision> and <secondaryDivision> are consistent with international standards. I support your suggestion as the term <jurisdiction> will produce pushback from the DOJ community. The combination of ISO 3166-1, -2, and UN/LOCODE appear to mitigate the "subdivison" contention issue: http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/04background-on-iso-3166/iso3166-2.html Sample entry from ISO 3166-2 Here you see the entry for Canada from ISO 3166-2. The abbreviations used in the headers of the entries are explained in an annex to ISO 3166-2. CA CANADA 10 provinces province (fr) 3 territories territoire (fr) List source: Canadian General Standards Board (CGSB), 1997-03-18; IGN 1989; Canadian Postal Guide; E-mail on Nunavut from Standards Council of Canada (SCC), 1999-09-02; update 2001; update 2002 Code source: Canadian Postal Guide Provinces: (en) (fr) CA-AB Alberta CA-BC British Columbia Colombie-Britannique CA-MB Manitoba CA-NB New Brunswick Nouveau-Brunswick CA-NL Newfoundland and Labrador Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador CA-NS Nova Scotia Nouvelle-Écosse CA-ON Ontario CA-PE Prince Edward Island Île-du-Prince-Édouard CA-QC Quebec Québec CA-SK Saskatchewan Territories: CA-NT Northwest Territories Territoires du Nord-Ouest CA-NU Nunavut CA-YT Yukon Territory Territoire du Yukon Relationship with other coding systems The subdivision standard provides an important link between ISO 3166-1 and UN/LOCODE, the United Nations Code for Ports and other Locations, developed and maintained by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN/ECE). Whereas ISO 3166-1 codes country names, UN/LOCODE provides code elements for more than 32 000 names of ports, airports, rail and road terminals, postal exchange offices, border crossing points and other locations used in trade and transport. All code elements in UN/LOCODE start with the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code element for the country in which the place concerned is located. In some countries there are several places with the same name. In such cases the relevant ISO 3166-2 subdivision code is essential to distinguish between them. All three code systems taken together enable users to consistently code geographical information all the way down from the country level, over the subdivision level to the level of single locations used in trade and transport (see the short list below). ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code: DE (Germany) ISO 3166-2 subdivision code: DE-BW (Federal state of Baden-Württemberg) UN/LOCODE location code: DESTR (City of Stuttgart) Regards, Tom Merkle CapWIN: www.capwin.org Phone: (301) 614-3720 Cell Phone: (240) 375-1966 Fax: (301) 614-0581 e-mail: tmerkle@capwin.org CapWIN 6305 Ivy Lane Suite 300 Capital Office Park Greenbelt, MD 20770 -----Original Message----- From: Art Botterell [mailto:acb@incident.com] Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 9:14 PM To: emergency@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: [emergency] EDXL - political subdivisions Regarding our proposed <targetArea> tags for political subdivisions in the EDXL Distribution Element, on further thought I'd like to suggest we make the following changes: Rename <country> as <nation>; rename <primaryJurisdiction> as <primaryDivision>; and, rename <secondaryJurisdiction> as <secondaryDivision>. Also, I think maybe we may need to ensure that each subdivision is clearly bound to one and only one higher-level political boundary. (E.g., "Hamilton" might be a secondaryDivision in both Ohio and Ontario.) So maybe these need to be structured as nested elements instead of peers. And of course I think we want to remember in the data dictionary to depreciate the use of political area names in favor of explicit geospatial representations (circles and polygons). We don't want to encourage the construction of string-matching applications, even though we may have to accomodate them for the time being. - Art --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. You may a link to this group and all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php
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