On 3 September 2013 09:17, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:
All right you can reduce 440 zones down to 300 or so, but all of the original 440 names still need to be available, and in these days does saving a few bytes really matter? 'Simplification' of access is more to do with showing the appropriate subset of options by the application and historical ones may actually be the correct answer. So the data should be as complete a record of the 'best available current and historical information' that we have! Providing a version of the data that will be WRONG for some users is not an option?
If you have extra data for an existing zone ID I'd suggest proposing a patch (with evidence). Such patches have been accepted in the past. I suspect that other locations (that only differ pre-1970) would be better discussed and documented elsewhere. Stephen