| Pete Foley on Fri, 3 Aug 2001 15:40:07 -0400 |
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Thus spake Walt Mankowski on Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 03:17:45PM -0400: > There are only 200 or so countries in the world, and less than 10 > "continents" (depending on how you count things like Central America > and Oceana). With a world map or an almanac you could probably enter > them all in just an hour or two. Yeah, I know that it would only take a few hours, and I was figuring that if there was not anything else out there that I would either make a CSV database of it or make a PERL module with all of the data hard coded into it (like the Geography::States or Geography::USStates modules). But I cannot imagine that I am the first person that needs something like this (or at least looking for an Open Source version). Like I said, if nothing comes up I will probably throw one together and then release it to the community. Considering that I am currently unemployed, I should be able to find the time to do it. > The only really tough part is the country divisions. Finding out the > names of all the German states, Swiss cantons, and whatnot is going to > take some research. It will definitely take some research, but it may be worth it. I'll see what happens. :) -Pete -- Pete Foley (pete@lynchman.net) http://www.lynchman.net ------------------------------- Unix is sexy! who | grep -i blonde | date; cd ~;unzip; touch; strip; finger; mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount; sleep Attachment:
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