I'm going to stick with just the famfamfam flags. No flag shown for "None" or "International": These people don't necessarily like the United Nations, and may reject nationalism and flags entirely.
-- David John 37309 wrote: > OK attached to this email is a zipped package with the following 6 flags; > > un for United Nations, GIF and PNG > > aq for Antartica, GIF and PNG > > im for Isle of Man, GIF and PNG > > All flags are 16x11 pix > > Any more flags needed, let me know! > > John. > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Richard Haselgrove > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > 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 <mailto:[email protected]> > *To:* Richard Haselgrove <mailto:[email protected]> > *Cc:* David Anderson <mailto:[email protected]> ; BOINC Dev > Mailing List <mailto:[email protected]> > *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.
