Problem With Countries

[+Teasel]

Hi,

 

There appears to be a problem with the countries showing on the cache details pages. Caches in the "United Kingdom" are coming up as blank - eg this one. Caches in "Ireland" (whatever that means!) are showing as Éire, even if they're in Northern Ireland - eg this one. The country list on the home page still lists UK and Ireland.

 

Is this a prelude to a less ambiguous set of GC.com country names for the British Isles? (Hooray if so! ) "Ireland / Great Britain" (best!) or "Éire / United Kingdom" (less good) are both unambiguous ways of partitioning this set of rocks just off Europe. Whereas the previous pair of "Ireland / United Kingdom" (worst!) doesn't make it clear where caches in Northern Ireland should be listed. Or is it just a technical glitch (Boohoo if so! )

 

Cheers,

Ian

Edited September 13, 2004 by Teasel

[+MarcB]

Hear, hear Teasel

[+The White Family]

Personally I'd prefer that we used the proper countries of the UK like England, Scotland, Wales etc.

 

The United Kingdom is not a country. Yes, I know that's what ISO3166 says, but it also defines the abbreviations for United Kingdom as GB and GBR, so it's obviously flawed.