On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Aldo Bucchi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I found a dataset that represents countries as two letter country > codes: DK, FI, NO, SE, UK. > I would like to turn these into URIs of the actual countries they represent. > > ( I have no idea on whether this follows an ISO standard or is just > some private key in this system ). > > Any ideas on a set of candidata URIs? I would like to run a complete > coverage test and take care I don't introduce distortion ( that is > pretty easy by doing some heuristic tests against labels, etc ). > > There are some border cases that suggest this isn't ISO3166-1, but I > am not sure yet. ( and if it were, which widely used URIs are based on > this standard? ).
http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geoinfo.asp might have something useful for you? Dan
