OpenGeoCode.org Announces FREE ISO 3166-1 Country Codes Dataset Now Available

VANCOUVER, Wash. - March 5, 2014 - PRLog -- As of February 20, 2014, ISO will require users to purchase an ISO subscription to access the ISO country codes online. OpenGeoCode.Org has placed a copy of the last version freely available version ( 02/15/2014) of the dataset on our website for download to the public for no charge.

Standardized codes are important in doing international business and in dealing with large, publically accessed datasets. Country codes are a short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes (geocodes) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this with the most widely used of these being the ISO 3166-1 standard.

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Download ISO 3166-1 English Country Codes - TXT
http://www.opengeocode.org/cude1.1/Archive/ISO%203166-1%20alpha-2%20English.txt

Download ISO 3166-1 English Country Codes - XML
http://www.opengeocode.org/cude1.1/Archive/ISO%203166-1%20alpha-2%20English.xml

Download ISO 3166-1 French Country Codes - TXT
http://www.opengeocode.org/cude1.1/Archive/ISO%203166-1%20alpha-2%20French.txt

Download ISO 3166-1 French Country Codes - XML
http://www.opengeocode.org/cude1.1/Archive/ISO%203166-1%20alpha-2%20French.xml

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