Actually it depends on your needs. In France we still use only "départements"
for addresses (with street, postal code and city of course).
There are rumours about things changing. Like no longer having "départements" in France but only "régions". But I doubt this will appear in a near
future. For history sake, the dpts were created during the revolution to allow a "Préfet" (responsible on behalf the state for the dpt) to get into
any part of it in one day on horseback, so a bit deprecated ;)
So for now in term of addresses only "départements" are used. So in the state province list regions make no sense yet. You should use departements
there, maybe data should be changed. As strange as it could seem, I have never worked on a major French web project (only foreign ones). So I never
checked those values which were mostly updated by Erwan when he worked with Néréides. On French web sites, you see dpt sometimes and on foreigner
sites sometimes regions, it's not quite clear to me and seems to depend on the situation.
Also if data are wrong please fix them. Note that for that I don't rely only on
Wikipedia, but prefer to check at https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#search
I put some links in top of framework/common/data/GeoData.xml
HTH
Jacques
Le 01/04/2014 17:30, Christian Carlow a écrit :
When choosing France as the country for creating contact info for a party, the state/province field is not populated. One reason for this is that
the FRA record in the CountryAddressFormat entity does not have the geoAssocTypeId set. However, even when the geoAssocTypeId is set to REGIONS,
the list is still not populated because the the corresponding Geo records geoTypeId is not set to one of STATE, PROVINCE, COUNTY, or MUNICIPALITY as
required by getAssociatedStateList service. Instead they are set to REGION and COUNTY_CITY.
This http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:FR explains France has 22 metro regions and 96 metro depts within the regions. Can someone advise how
to correctly populate the state/province list? Should only the 22 regions be listed or should the 96 depts be listed with the region also
indicated? Also should the REGION and COUNTRY_CITY geoTypeIds be added to the getAssociatedStateList service as compatible types?
Also, the geoId of the France regions appear to be incorrect according to the wikipedia article above. For example, the GeoId of Alsace is FR-ALS
however it is indicated as FR-A in the wikipedia article. Should these also be correct for consistency with ISO?
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