That's fine - congratulations on getting it this far. But I know, from personal experience, how easy it is for minor errors to creep in when cross-referencing lists by eye.
My role in the commercial software I mentioned was effectively that of 'sweeper' - performing an independent final check before the datasets were sent for mastering, duplication and distribution. So I know the techniques - everything you saw in my previous post was done by bulk data manipulation and database matching. As I found myself saying repeatedly yesterday, "if you're going to do something at all, do it properply": hence the proof-read. I think it would be best if you, John, could go back to the original developers of famfamfam (since you made the link in the first place), and ask that images for IM, AQ and UN (conveniently unallocated) be added to the archive. That way, future BOINC projects can follow the installation instructions, and collect a single comprehensive archive - if the instruction are "get the archive, and add three odd single images", projects will mess up or not bother. [ IM has a flag - click the link on the Wikipedia page. AQ doesn't, so perhaps your UN image could be duplicated there ] ----- Original Message ----- From: John 37309 To: Richard Haselgrove Cc: David Anderson ; BOINC Dev Mailing List Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 2:21 PM Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] Add country to forum profile Richard, It was I "hand-wrote-out" the two letter code for each country. I tried to cross reference the country codes from the official iso 3166-2 codes. The countries listed in the boinc code seem to be unique, they don't match the iso list of codes, they were taken from some CIA website. In the boinc list countries, there are countries listed that are not officially listed by iso or the international community. I did my best, but yes, you are correct in all the corrections you suggested. I searched the iso 3166-2 codes for words like "Gaza" and "Virgin" and when there was no country listed containing the word, i guessed! Yes, i possibly made errors in my dicisions about world political borders. If any flags are needed, i can make identical flags for any country that match the famfamfam flags. I have the image template made! The UN Flag; http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n46/john502/un-1.png http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n46/john502/un.gif John. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
