[Rockhounds] seeking info on official political locality data

[str4hler]

Is this what you're looking for?
http://philmcrew.com/countrysubentity.txt ?
or http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/service/sublocat.htm ?
Cheers!

On Feb 11, 2008 10:57 PM, DonH <donhalterman at verizon.net> wrote:
> J Bryan Kramer wrote:
>
> > This might be a good starting point:
> >
> > <http://geonames.usgs.gov/index.html>
> >
>
> Thanks guys for all the answers.  This helps a lot.  Somewhere I thought
> there was a breakdown of administrative divisons by order... in other
> words, a U.S. state is a "1st order division" (i.e., one level down from
> "country") and I'd imagine a German state is the same; but I'm not sure
> whether a Swiss canton or a Japanese praefecture is 1st or 2nd, etc.
>
> The reason this matters is that I need to provide a database that
> catalogs all my samples (and this will be much simpler than the
> collection management database that Tommy and I developed a few years
> ago) and I am striving to keep the locality fields in line with standard
> nomenclature.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Don
>
>
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