Global Source Book
Update 09v1 (April 2009)
This update to the book Global Source Book for Address Data
Management has been released (2nd April 2009) as an Adobe Acrobat
file and as a e-book. The following chapters and data have been updated:
Postal code maps added to maps file: Andorra, Saudi Arabia
Low resolution postal code maps added to the main book file for these countries: Andorra Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Morocco, The Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA, Uruguay
Muslim names - a short guide - additional information added.
World personal name formats: Moldova added.
World address formats: New format for: Moldova, Saudi Arabia; modified format for: Anguilla, Cyprus.
World postal box strings: added for Romanian
World postal code formats: new information for : Anguilla, Saudi Arabia
Population figures updated for most countries.
Andorra: postal code map added
Anguilla: new postal code system; address format altered.
Azerbaijan: currency code updated; additional place name information added.
Cape Verde: administrative districts section updated
Chad: administrative districts section updated
Croatia: local language word for "postal code" added
Cyprus: address format altered
Dominican Republic: administrative districts section modified
France: new photograph added.
Honduras: telephone number information modified.
Italy: new administrative district information added.
Libya: administrative districts section updated; information about a planned postal code system added.
Macedonia: Additional Albanian-language place name versions added
Malawi: administrative districts section updated.; telephone numbers section modified
Mayotte: political status information added.
Moldova: personal names section modified; additional address format information added.
Montenegro; Albanian-language place name versions added.
Netherlands: company types section modified
Netherlands Antilles: current affairs information altered.
Nicaragua: telephone number information altered.
Norway: new photograph added.
Panama: administrative districts section updated
Poland: address structure clarification added.
Portugal: post office box string name clarified; address abbreviation guidelines added; postally preferred forms of address, thoroughfare types and (sub-)building type lists added.
Qatar: administrative districts section updated
Romania: post office box section added.
Russia: Currency code corrected
Saudi Arabia: new address format information; new postal code format information; postal code map added.
Senegal: administrative districts section updated
Sierra Leone: telephone number section added.
Slovakia: updated currency information
Sudan: currency information updated
Suriname: telephone number section updated.
Tanzania: postal address information modified.
United States: company types added
Vanuatu: telephone number information modified.
Yemen: administrative districts section updated
Bibliography: additional sources added
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