[ic] Scotland missing from countries/states

Paul Jordan paul at gishnetwork.com
Sat Jan 16 16:01:03 UTC 2010


>>> > 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
>
> Sorry for being dumb, but where exactly on http://kiwi.zolotek.net can I
> find the information about GB etc?

Under Usertags, State.txt. It's 5/8 of the way down the page.

Paul
 




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