If I were creating names for boundary turning points based on 2-letter
abbreviations, I would adopt the ISO standard over FIPS (particularly for
sharing such information to individuals outside the US). A basic, slightly
dated list of ISO 3166 codes is available at this URL:
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/iso3166-countrycodes/
An introduction to FIPS 10-4 is available as this URL:
http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip10-4.htm
Subsequent updates to the above FIPS 10-4 code can be found at this URL:
http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/FIPS/FIPS_Files.html
To my knowledge, there isn't a table that compares them (but it's easy
enough to compile). Hope this helps!
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: michael donner [mailto:
m@...]
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 1:55 PM
To:
BoundaryPoint@egroups.com
Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: list of multinational points
wow & thanxx for both the q & a
so for purposes of giving the best possible names to the multinational
points
do you agree it seems more propitious to ignore the united states version &
adopt instead the internationally agreed system
& if so
or even if not
can anyone provide a link to this entire list
or better yet to a comparative table of both lists
m
>The 2-letter country codes that appear on the State Dept's list below are
>the 2-letter codes from the FIPS 10-4 standard used in the US Government
>(Federal Information Processing Standard). Unfortunately, the FIPS 10-4
>codes to not all agree with the internationally-used ISO 3166-1 2-letter
>codes (for example Algeria in FIPS 10-4 is AG while in ISO 3166 it's DZ;
>Azerbaijan in FIPS is AJ while in ISO it's AZ, and so on).
>
>Tom
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Mark [mailto:dmark@...]
>Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 12:38 PM
>To: BoundaryPoint@egroups.com
>Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: list of multinational points
>
>
>What is the source of supposed "standard" 2-letter codes for countries?
>David
>
>
>
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