From: Ant A. <349...@t8...> - 2008-09-08 22:17:02
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Hello Guy, Association of British Counties is excellent and worth supporting! http://www.abcounties.co.uk/ Regards Ant . ** Withdraw from the EU! ** * No identity cards either! * . . On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, guylinton wrote: > > > Paul Blair wrote: >> >> >> But if you want tangles, try Great Britain, United Kingdom, Ireland (both >> bits), Scotland and Wales. From Australia, we tend (but not everyone does) >> address stuff to Scotland or Ireland or England - and GB or UK simply left >> off! >> >> There is a Geonames forum, where these debates rage... >> >> > My favorite site for looking at the complexities is: > http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/postal.html > > I had almost completed reformatting my address book with the last elements > being PostTown, County, PostCode, [Country if not UK], only to discover that > the postal authority (Royal Mail) now doesn't recommend the use of county, > and in addresses from Royal Mail including the database extracts they sell > it is never used - with the consequence that in many cases, I couldn't > discover the county! > > Regards, > Tim. > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Island-vs.-Country-tp19261979p19382096.html > Sent from the GRAMPS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Gramps-users mailing list > Gra...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users > |