Global Source Book
Update 09v2 (November 2009)
This update to the book Global Source Book for Address Data
Management has been released (4th November 2009) as an Adobe Acrobat
file and as a e-book. The following chapters and data have been updated:
Diacritical marks: Russian added; additional information about Swedish added; photograph added.
Country names: Arabic versions of Montenegro and Serbia added; Chinese versions of Aruba, Bermuda, Congo (Kinshasa), Equatorial Guinea, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Guinea, Kyrgyzstan, The Lebanon, Martinique, Micronesia, Moldova, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, Senegal and Venezuela added; Russian versions of American Samoa, Anguilla, Aruba, Bermuda, British Virgin islands, Cayman Islands, Congo (Kinshasa), Cook Islands, Dominica, Faeroe Islands, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Guam, Macau, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, Reunion, Romania, Tokelau, United States Virgin Islands and Wallis & Futuna added; Spanish version of Ascension Island added.
NEW CHAPTER: Address formats for web forms
- Street address formats with building numbers asked separately
- Street address formats without building numbers asked separately
- Mailing address formats
- Field labels in other languages
NEW CHAPTER: Place names in English
World postal code formats: Regular expressions for postal code format verification made for all countries. Modification/addition made for Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Cape Verde, China, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, India, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein, Madagascar, Maldives, Moldova, Mozambique, Nepal, Netherlands, Niger, Pakistan, Paraguay, Russia, St Vincent & The Grenadines, Senegal, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, USA, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Western Sahara. New countries added: Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten
World post office box indicators: indicators added for Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten
World personal name formats: formats modified for Czech Republic and Slovakia
World address formats: formats added for Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten
Albania: additional postal code information added.
Algeria: additional postal code information added.
Andorra: additional postal code information added.
Argentina: additional postal code information added.
Australia: postal code ranges per state modified; additional address format information added
Azerbaijan: additional postal code information added.
Bangladesh: additional postal code information added.
Belarus: additional postal code information added.
Bonaire: NEW COUNTRY CHAPTER
Botswana: additional telephone number information added
Brunei Darussalam: additional postal code information added.
Bulgaria: additional postal code information added.
Canada: new photograph added
Cape Verde: additional postal code information added.
Chile: telephone numbers section added.
Croatia: 2 photographs added; additional language information added; list of place names in Hungarian added.
Curaçao: NEW COUNTRY CHAPTER
Cyprus: new addressing information added.
Czech Republic: postal code information added
Denmark: additional place name version added; 3 photographs added; sub-buildings information added.
France: additional telephone number information added.
Georgia: additional postal code information added; telephone numbers section added.
Germany: Given name legal situation information updated; additional postal code information added
Greece: additional postal code information added.
Guatemala: postal codes per region information added.
Hungary: additional postal code information added.
Iceland: additional postal code information added.
India: additional postal code information added.
Ireland: additional Dublin postal area information added; additional postal code information added; 2 photographs added.
Israel: Additional postal code information added.
Italy: alterations to urban postal code zones information added.
Jordan: additional postal code information added.
Kazakhstan: postal code information corrected.
Liberia: telephone number information modified.
Liechtenstein: postal code correction made
Montenegro: photograph added
Nepal: Additional postal code information added.
Netherlands: postal code information modified
New Zealand: additional address format information added.
Niger: Additional postal code information added.
Norway: additional postal code information added.
Pakistan: Additional postal code information added.
Paraguay: Additional postal code information added.
Philippines: additional address format information added
Pitcairn Islands: international telephone dialling code added
Poland: telephone numbers section added.
Romania: additional address information added; additions to the thoroughfare types list.
Russia: telephone number section added; additional postal code information added; postal code map added; postal codes per regions table added.
Saba: NEW COUNTRY CHAPTER
Senegal: additional address format information added.
Seychelles: administrative districts section updated.
Singapore: additional mailing address information added.
Sint Eustatius: NEW COUNTRY CHAPTER
Sint Maarten: NEW COUNTRY CHAPTER
Slovakia: new language information added; personal name format information corrected
Slovenia: Additional postal code information added.
Solomon Islands: additional telephone number information provided.
Sri Lanka: new photograph added
Sudan: telephone numbers section added.
Swaziland: additional telephone number information added.
Sweden: additional place name version added; three photographs added
Tajikistan: Additional postal code information added.
Thailand: additional postal code information added; postal code map added; postal codes per province table added
Trinidad & Tobago: administrative districts section corrected
Tunisia: Additional postal code information added.
Turkmenistan: Additional postal code information added.
Ukraine: additional company legal forms added
United Kingdom: additional postal code information added.
United States of America: address formats section modified
Uzbekistan: additional postal code information added.
Venezuela: additional postal code information added.
Bibliography: updated
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