Re: [Gnumed-devel] Call for backend data - states per country

[Carlos Moro]

Hi all,

J Busser wrote:

> - presumably Spain's "autonomous communities" and "provinces" overlap 
> physically so there is no "clean" hierarchy between them, it is as 
> though these are 2 independent ways to organize location. But it 
> sounds like one of these 'autonomous communities" is too large to be 
> an urb if an "urb" is a set of {postcode, city, country and state}

There is hierarchical structure, they don't overlap in an independent 
way. Every province belongs to a unique community and every community 
has 1 or more provinces...

Regarding the address, exactly, few people uses the community, but the 
province is mandatory.

Best regards,
carlos



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