[ic] Scotland missing from countries/states

Lyn St George lyn at zolotek.net
Fri Jan 15 10:36:02 UTC 2010


On Friday 15 January 2010 07:15:27 Gert van der Spoel wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > A customer informed us that we do not have Scottish provinces in our
> > state
> > list. I have found two posts pointing out similar:
> >
> > http://www.icdevgroup.org/pipermail/interchange-users/2004-
> > November/041520.html
> > http://www.icdevgroup.org/pipermail/interchange-users/2003-
> > October/036175.html
> >
> > I also noticed that Demo still does not address this so I was wondering
> > what
> > everyone else is doing about this? I can just add Scotland to the
> > countries
> > file and show a blank input for the province.
> >
> > Just wanted to get a consensus first.
>
> It looks like the 'official' way to go is to remove County for UK
> alltogether, see:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_counties_of_the_United_Kingdom
>
> Using a blank state/province field you give people the opportunity to add
> the county themselves anyway.
> As long as they provide the postal code the mailman should be able to
> deliver.
>
> CU,
>
> Gert

Or you could use the one I have on http://kiwi.zolotek.net - this adds 
everything for the UK (including  Northern Ireland), a separate entry for 
Great Britain (ie, without Northern Ireland), plus regions for New Zealand, 
Austria, Switzerland, France, Germany and one or two others. 
Lyn




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