Hello Francois, Your country count will depend on which geo-political model of the world you want to adopt. There are a number of systems each of which use slightly different criteria. The differences are not with states that are clearly countries in their own right, such as the USA, Canada, UK, etc. The difficulty is with states that are dependent (economically, defence, etc.) but have some degree of autonomy. For instance, Greenland, Guam, Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe all have links with a "parent" country, so do you include them as countries?
IMHO, the two major geo-political systems are the US FIPS10-4 and International ISO-3166. There are subtle differences between the two. We support both systems in Europa products. MapInfo's standard world map has never been maintained very well and has a number of political errors in addition to an inconsistent level of detail. More controversially it does not take a balanced view on issues such as Jammu & Kashmir - specifically, instead of mapping the line of control between India and Pakistan (as published by the UN), they give the whole region to India. I asked one of the MapInfo founders about this a number of years ago and was rather astonished to hear that they do this because "we sell more products in India than Pakistan". I wonder how many other pseudo-political depictions are made in data based on a commercial factors! Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd. http://www.europa-tech.com -----Original Message----- From: Francois T.-Goulet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 January 2005 02:50 To: [email protected] Subject: MI-L New countries Does anyone know if there's a place where I can find informations about any new country or countries which have changed their name since 2000 (or 1998)? MI 7.0's world map (included with the cd) has 252 countries (and ESRI 2000's base map has 250) and I need an up to date map. Thanks, Francois T.-Goulet --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 15033 --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 15059
