Global Sourcebook for International Data Management
by Graham Rhind
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Updates 2009
Global Sourcebook | Index | Properties29 December 2009 14:21:53
Population figures updated for most countries commencing L, M
22 December 2009 19:54:08
Population figures updated for most countries commencing J, K
15 December 2009 10:37:01
Population figures updated for most countries commencing H, I
Russia: administrative districts section updated.
08 December 2009 07:37:55
Population figures updated for most countries commencing G
Papua New Guinea - telephone number information modified
02 December 2009 11:16:20
Population figures updated for most countries commencing F
28 November 2009 10:54:18
Malaysia: modification and addition translations added for thoroughfare types table
Spain: additional internet domain information added.
26 November 2009 09:47:12
Ethiopia: current affairs information added.
25 November 2009 09:59:50
Yemen: current affairs information added.
24 November 2009 09:03:24
Population figures for most countries beginning D & E updated.
Czech Republic: additional company legal forms added
Eritrea: administrative areas section modified
23November 2009 09:43:54
Population figures for most countries beginning C updated.
Cambodia: administrative districts information modified
Congo (Republic of, Brazzaville): administrative districts information modified
17 November 2009 09:50:05
Population figures for most countries beginning B updated.
Bolivia: official country name modified
16 November 2009 13:32:04
Population figures for most countries beginning A updated.
Rwanda: additional telephone number information added.
Samoa: additional telephone number information added.
10 November 2009 09:53:32
China: additional postal address format information added.
Hungary: additional telephone number information added.
Indonesia: slight additional to thoroughfare information
Japan: additional postal address format information added.
Madagascar: New telephone numbers section added.
Malaysia: slight additional to thoroughfare information
Vietnam: additional personal naming information added.
Bibliography: updated
14 October 2009 08:23:49
World Postal Code Formats: Updated regular expression added for Guatemala
Guatemala: postal codes per department information added.
13 October 2009 08:23:49
Cyprus: additional addressing information added
Ireland: 2 photographs added
12 October 2009 09:24:23
United Kingdom: additional postal code information added
07 October 2009 09:12:17
Georgia: additional postal code information added; telephone numbers section added.
06 October 2009 07:35:17
Address formats for web forms-> Mailing Address Formats: Format for Anguilla altered
Croatia: 2 photographs added; additional language information added; list of place names in Hungarian added.
27 September 2009 10:16:44
Ireland: Additional postal code information added.
22 September 2009 08:52:15
Botswana: Additional telephone number information added.
Pitcairn Islands: international telephone dialling code added.
14 September 2009 09:34:44
World postal code formats: Regular expression altered for Russia; additional information added for Russia
Russia: additional postal code information added; postal code map added; postal codes per region table added.
11 September 2009 14:33:12
World postal code formats: Regular expression altered for Thailand
Thailand: additional postal code information added; postal code map added; postal codes per province table added.
08 September 2009 08:58:12
World postal code formats: Regular expression altered for Czech Republic
World personal name formats: formats modified for Czech Republic and Slovakia
Czech Republic: additional postal code information added
Slovakia: modification of personal name information
07 September 2009 12:51:20
Diacritical marks: Russian added.
01 September 2009 09:07:23
Slovakia: new language information added.
25 August 2009 08:00:34
World postal code formats: additional information added for Germany; Regular expression for Germany modified
Germany: additional postal code information added
Sri Lanka: new photograph added
20 August 2009 11:19:47
Norway: additional address format information added
Singapore: additional mailing address information added.
19 August 2009 09:35:38
New Zealand: additional address format information added
18 August 2009 08:33:24
Chile: telephone numbers section added
Ireland: additional Dublin postal area information added
15 August 2009 12:55:13
Denmark - sub-building information section added
12 August 2009 10:56:56
Australia: postal code ranges per state modified; additional address format added
10 August 2009 08:37:41-
Diacritical marks - additional information about Swedish added; photograph added
World postal code formats - new format added for St Vincent & The Grenadines
World address formats - format altered for St Vincent & The Grenadines
Address formats for web forms - formats for St Vincent & The Grenadines altered.
Bonaire, Sint Maarten, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Solomon Islands - telephone number information added.
Denmark: additional place name version added; three photographs added
St Vincent & The Grenadines - New postal code system information added; address format modified
Sweden: two photographs added.
04 August 2009 08:46:28-Congo (Brazzaville) - administrative districts section updated
20 July 2009 08:53:57- Russia - telephone number section added.
09 July 2009 11:10:30 - Montenegro- photograph added
Updated on or before 06 July 2009 09:32:00
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 systems: 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, Hungary, Iceland, India, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein, Madagascar, Maldives, Moldova, Mozambique, Nepal, Netherlands, Niger, Pakistan, Paraguay, Russia, Senegal, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmfice box indicators: indicators added for Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten
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.
Azerbaijan: additional postal code information added.
Bangladesh: additional postal code information added.
Belarus: additional postal code information added.
Bonaire: NEW COUNTRY CHAPTER
Brunei Darussalam: additional postal code information added.
Bulgaria: additional postal code information added.
Canada: new photograph added
Cape Verde: additional postal code information added.
Curaçao: NEW COUNTRY CHAPTER
France: additional telephone number information added.
Germany: Given name legal situation information updated.
Greece: additional postal code information added.
Hungary: additional postal code information added.
Iceland: additional postal code information added.
India: additional postal code information 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
Nepal: Additional postal code information added.
Netherlands: postal code information modified
Niger: Additional postal code information added.
Pakistan: Additional postal code information added.
Paraguay: Additional postal code information added.
Philippines: additional address format information added
Poland: telephone numbers section added.
Saba: NEW COUNTRY CHAPTER
Sint Eustatius: NEW COUNTRY CHAPTER
Sint Maarten: NEW COUNTRY CHAPTER
Slovenia: Additional postal code information added.
Romania: additional address information added; additions to the thoroughfare types list.
Senegal: additional address format information added.
Seychelles: administrative districts section updated.
Solomon Islands: additional telephone number information provided.
Sudan: telephone numbers section added.
Swaziland: additional telephone number information added.
Tajikistan: Additional postal code information 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 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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