Hi,

The Map Chart in the Image API claims to support ISO 3166-2 level
codes. However for UK codes at least, there seems to be some major
issues with this which make the tool practically unusable. Examples
I've found:

* Codes added in Jun 2010 don't work (GB-BDF, GB-CBF, GB-CHE, GB-CHW)
but neither do their previous versions (GB-BDF, GB-CHS). So data for
Cheshire and Bedfordshire cannot be plotted at all.
* GB-IOS which was removed at the same time, does still work.
* GB-LND seems to map to the entire Greater London area instead of the
much smaller City of London. In addition, none of the other London
borough codes seem to work. Since Greater London contains 15% of the
population of the whole of England, grouping it as one isn't very
useful.

The Wikipedia page contains all the codes (http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/ISO_3166-2:GB) - I'm not sure why they haven't all been
translated onto this tool?

I can see this isn't the first time this issue has been brought up on
this forum. Anybody from Google want to comment?

Thanks,

Nirst

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