April 18, 2013
8:23 p.m.
Tobias Conradi said:
3) they look like line noise to humans, so perhaps people won't get quite as bent out of shape because The Wrong Region was used;
The first two letters of UN LOCODEs are the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes, likely not noise to all humans.
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