Re: [geolang-comment] UN regional code vs. LOCODE (was: Quo vadis,GeoLang?)

[Lars Marius Garshol <larsga@garshol.priv.no>]

* Lars Marius Garshol
| 
| I even see one problem with it: there's an NO-EID code, but there
| are several places which could be designated by the code. Is there
| any way to know which one is meant?

* John Cowan
| 
| At present, probably not, unless there is only one seaport named
| "Eide", 

"Eid" means something like "promontory" (narrow strip of land with
water on both sides that connects two landmasses), so they would most
likely all be ports.

| since the code "1-----" indicates a seaport that is not an airport,
| rail terminal, road terminal, postal exchange point, or frontier
| crossing point.

Probably none of them would be.
 
| The schema for LOCODE contains a slot for longitude/latitude, which
| would disambiguate completely, but it isn't populated yet.

Aha. Yes, that would be the puzzle piece that would solve this. I see
"Dal" has it, and with good reason. "Dal" means "valley", and there
must be dozens of places named that...

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