https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1 specifies its country code as a separate entity since 2002
On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 10:10 PM Milo van der Linden <[email protected]> wrote: > According to wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong, Hong Kong > became a part of China on the first of july, 1997. I do not know if this > affects the official country code. > > 2018-08-31 14:58 GMT+02:00 Leo Orson <[email protected]>: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I tried to geocode "Hong Kong" >> (https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=Hong >> Kong&format=json&addressdetails=1&accept-language=en), and the country >> code comes out to be "cn". >> >> But according to this list ( >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Country_Codes), I found >> the country code for Hong Kong to be "HK", and hence I believe we should be >> getting HK instead of CN. >> >> I did some research and I believe the Relation: China (270056) ( >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/270056/history#map=6/20.056/114.675) >> is the reason. Not sure how to fix this, hence thought of mailing it here. >> >> Regards, >> Leo. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Geocoding mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/geocoding >> >> > > > -- > [image: http://www.dogodigi.net] <http://www.dogodigi.net> > *Milo van der Linden* > web: dogodigi <http://www.dogodigi.net> > tel: +31-6-16598808 >
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