Subject: Re: competing &quot;Factbooks&quot;<br/>
Date: Jun 10, 2004 @ 00:46<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1714797112">--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;geoh88&quot; &lt;geoh88@y...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Does anyone know of any government besides the USA which publishes <br/>
&gt; (either online or on paper) anything equivalent to the CIA World <br/>
&gt; Factbook; the essence being a non-hierarchical list of geopolitical <br/>
&gt; entities covering the whole world, just like ISO 3166-1, but sliced <br/>
&gt; and diced differently?<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>i dont think anything else like the cia factbook exists <br/>
let alone on so grand a scale & under such constant revision<br/>
<br/>
but again <br/>
that is only because nothing like it has shown up here yet<br/>
<br/>
nor do i think the iso lists are equivalent to the cia factbook in any <br/>
real way <br/>
except perhaps in the completeness of their scope<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
but isnt this just another <br/>
can anyone replicate the campobello topology <br/>
question<br/>
<br/>
for it is easy enough to notice when something unusual exists<br/>
& easy enough to wonder if it might be unique<br/>
<br/>
but to really seek & really find some real classmates in such cases can <br/>
be & usually is a whole nother matter<br/>
<br/>
& asking if anyone can make butter out of air<br/>
you may or may not be surprised & delighted by what you get</div>