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Specialized Philatelic Reference Materials
What follows are some source files (available here) , some derived works based on these source files and additional sources noted at the bottom of this page.
Prepared by the APS Computers in Philately Committee, July 1994
ASCII Listings of the APRL Country Codes:
ftp://ftp.cviog.uga.edu/pub/exchange/jackson/miscel/
The '.gz' format (something like a 'zip' file I assume) being unfamiliar was not persued as the ASCII files (available above) were then available through Ed Jackson.
Specific : Recommendations and Notes being used to construct recommendations: 1. apsnum.txt (inital analysis of APRL data) 2. 0-abcode.txt (observations and additions made), 3. db.txt - notes on a database format 4. fsubrkdn.htm - CIS data
What follows are the initial efforts.
Where it's all headed here:
In order to view broader geographical areas (continents, oceans, major
regions) and geo-political arenas (empires, kingdoms etc. that are
inter-continental vs. intra-continental), the original aprllnumb.txt data
has been copied into more descrete files focused on the specific topic.
These are modified versions and have additional listings based on the
general style found except that the phrases
'Offices in' and 'Occupation of' have been split off from their country
name - it's just a database thing...
The first step was to save a
delimited copy before any additions except
a for breaking it up into fields, splitting the 'Occ of' etc, and adding a
'Comment' field at the end. (65k)
Next is a text version of work in progress :
dbseqtst.txt - 130K.
Skip past the first few entries with no 'Locatio(n)' codes and you will see
where the real development begins.
And, finally, a general developing form for AJ's World Philatelic Atlas is the inital goal and is best seen here.
Other 'new' files available here in both delimited and regular text file formats are as follows:
Active Countries is an original list of the names of active countries and regions today with cross reference to APRL data, internet codes and a system of identification for dependency or member status along with an area scheme for indicating location. Current thinking is to convert the latter two (2) (dependency/member status & location codes) to the APRL system once it has been fleshed out to more fully cover the living and historical world sceens.
All are eventually slated to become one file or system of tables in a database.
Source: C.I.A. World Factbook Data (no longer there 5/2002):
Errata (on the www):
Global Web Explorer
Linking with every country throughout the World
Older existing 'reference' files here:
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