That sounds like a very valid thing to do. I would be happy to help.
I've been working on UK admin boundaries for some time now and have a
good view of how it hangs together. To start with I could make a table
to map the OSM boundary relation IDs to the ISO3166 values. 

Colin 

On 2013-10-10 16:42, cquest wrote: 

> Hello dear GB neighbours (I'm from the other side of the channel, the froggy
> side).
> 
> In order to simplify data reuse, I've started adding ISO3166-2 codes to
> admin boundaries in many countries.
> It as been quite easy on many, but GB is a complex case as there is a mix of
> different admin_level (4/6/8) matching ISO3166-2.
> 
> Here is the full list available on wikipedia:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:GB [1]
> 
> As you can see, in addition to England/Scotland/Wales and Northern Ireland,
> there are 200+ ISO codes for subdivisions currently in admin_level 6 or 8
> (like Manchester).
> 
> You can also have an overview of admin_level coverage using:
> http://layers.openstreetmap.fr/?zoom=8&lat=53.67415&lon=-1.8223&layers=00B00FFFFFFFFFFTFFFFFFFFFF
>  [2]
> 
> Is anyone interested in adding the ISO codes to the corresponding
> admin_level relations ?
> --
> Christian Quest from OpenStreetMap France
> 
> -----
> Christian Quest - cqu...@openstreetmap.fr
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> [3]
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Links:
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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:GB
[2]
http://layers.openstreetmap.fr/?zoom=8&lat=53.67415&lon=-1.8223&layers=00B00FFFFFFFFFFTFFFFFFFFFF
[3]
http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/ISO3166-on-GB-admin-boundaries-tp5780969.html
[4] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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