Re: [geolang-comment] Quo vadis, GeoLang?

[Mary Nishikawa <nisikawa@fuchinobe.oilfield.slb.com>]

At 05:42 PM 1/31/2002 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
>Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
>
>
>>Since then, however, a number of people now about to join the TC have
>>suggested other code sets that should also be covered.

Hi John,

Are you joining us? Welcome. Can you tell us a little about yourself and/or 
your project? You look as if you are very involved with this already.

>>The point of
>>this discussion is basically to reach agreement on what we want to
>>do. Personally I believe that we should let history be history and do
>>whatever the community has the most use for.
>
>I agree, and I propose that we cover the following codesets:
>
>RFC 3066 language codes (which are a superset/refinement of
>ISO 639-2, and are now the standard for xml:lang attributes).
>This is an IETF/IANA facility; although these are not technically
>standards bodies, they operate as such de facto, maintaining
>the canonical descriptions of core Internet facilities.

Reference for everyone to look at:
http://www.zvon.org/tmRFC/RFC3066/Output/index.html
This looks really nice, but I wonder if we can leave this for later. I 
think the our cups are full; if not overflowing ;-)


>UN/LOCODE, an extension of ISO 3166-2 for cities (particularly
>port cities), airports, and other notable locations.
>This is maintained by the United Nations.

Yes, I think that  the UN/LOCODE 2001-2 by UNECE (United Nations Code for 
Trade and Transport Locations)  is important, but it might be better to 
tackle it later. Actually, a colleague of mine is working on this. I am 
trying to get him to join us. This codeset was suggested to be used 
internally because we need to represent geomarkets as well as countries. 
http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/service/main.htm

That's 32,300 locations. I hope somebody has a script.

>The final maps would support languages (including national
>variations) and important dialects, regions of the world, countries
>and country-like entities, subdivisions of countries, and commercially
>important locations.  I estimate the resulting total map size to be
>on the order of 100,000 topics (almost all automatically derived from
>the underlying codesets, so not as frightening as it sounds).

It does sound frightening!!! You have a method for generating these 
automatically?

Are you suggesting to put all of this into one map?

Cheers,
Mary
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