thank you again tom
these pages are helpful as well as interesting
when i find a complete & easy to read tabulation of the iso diglyphs
i think i will not hesitate to adopt them
for now i will continue to enjoy the easy convenience of the fips table
but i agree it would be much better to strive for objectivity & universality
especially when it comes to the finished list
m
>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:
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>http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip10-4.htm
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>Subsequent updates to the above FIPS 10-4 code can be found at this URL:
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>http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/FIPS/FIPS_Files.html
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>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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