OpenStreetMap

Last days I tagged embassies worldwide with ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes (--> Links):

An example, the US Embassy in Berlin:

amenity=embassy
*** country=us ***
addr:city=Berlin
...

Before this OSM had 362 embassies, 320 without correct country code. Now there are 376 embassies and only 7 without correct country codes.

Links:

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2
Wiki page embassies: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Tag:amenity=embassy

Discussion

Comment from seav on 31 March 2009 at 16:22

Oh, so that's why I see your edits to the embassies in my area. :-)

Any particular reason why you changed the from_country tag to just country?

Comment from Serpens on 1 April 2009 at 09:34

"from_country" was my own proposal...

Much more users used "country" so I changed too. In the end it is technically very simple to change that back but to add ANY country code wasn't that simple (1,5 days for me).

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