[AccessD] Useful Lists

Arthur,

"I think it is identical to the similar
list from the military, but perhaps not. (In case you don't know what I 
mean,
Able Baker Charlie etc.)
"
Refers to the phonetic alphabet.  US military version would be "Alpha, 
Bravo,Charlie"

Of all the lists you mentioned...its probably the only one I could 
contribute to.  I know that different occupations and english speaking 
peoples use a different variation of the list.

I'd be glad to help any way I can.

Thanks,

Mark A. Matte

>From: artful at rogers.com
>Reply-To: Access Developers discussion and problem 
>solving<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
>To: "AccessD at databaseadvisors. com" <AccessD at databaseadvisors.com>,   
>dba-SQLServer <dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com>
>Subject: [AccessD] Useful Lists
>Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:20:41 -0800 (PST)
>
>On the basis of the thread about airport lists, I proposed to Jim Lawrence 
>that we accumulate a bunch of similar lists. As my father said when I 
>joined the CDN Air Force at 17, "Don't volunteer for anything." O well. Jim 
>has invited me to spearhead the acquisition of said lists, and I have 
>accepted the assignment.
>
>So, to all of you listers, three questions:
>
>1. What lists do you possess that you think would be useful to your fellow 
>AccessD/dba-SQL listers?
>2. What lists do you lack that you desire?
>
>(I couldn't resist the old programmer's joke. There are three types of 
>programmers -- those who can count and those who can't.)
>
>Chances are that more than one of you may volunteer to contribute similar 
>or identical lists. The latter is easy to deal with. The former is a little 
>tougher, since it might require UNIONing several lists, but that's ok.
>
>I have one list ready to go, which is the list of words corresponding to 
>letters that travel agents use to spell names. I think it is identical to 
>the similar list from the military, but perhaps not. (In case you don't 
>know what I mean, Able Baker Charlie etc.)
>
>I also have another list of cities within North America, and states and 
>provinces to correspond. It is not ready to go, there are some duplicates, 
>but I could prune the dupes. The list consists only of those cities into 
>which the company I was formerly associated with sold products, but it 
>numbers about 5,000 cities, give or take 3. Far from exhaustive, but a good 
>start, and similar lists could easily be UNIONed. That leaves out all the 
>listers uninterested in cities in North America, but listers residing 
>elsewhere might be able to contribute more cities. On this one, there is a 
>difficulty. Within North America, there are states and provinces. In 
>Switzerland, there are cantons.
>
>On this subject, I have just done some searches in dictionary.com and come 
>up with some hilarious definitions:
>
>City -- an important town
>Town -- a large village
>Village -- a small community or group of houses in a rural area, larger 
>than a
>hamlet and usually smaller than a town, and sometimes (as in parts of
>the U.S.) incorporated as a municipality.
>Hamlet -- British. a village without a church of its own, belonging to the 
>parish of another village or town.
>County (the richest by far) --
>1.the largest administrative division of a U.S. state: Miami, Florida, is 
>in Dade County.
>
>2.one of the chief administrative divisions of a country or state, as in 
>Great Britain and Ireland.
>
>3.one of the larger divisions for purposes of local administration, as in 
>Canada and New Zealand.
>
>4.the territory of a county, esp. its rural areas, as in: "We farmed out in 
>the county before moving to town.".
>
>5.the inhabitants of a county, as in, "It was supposed to be a secret, but 
>you told the whole county.".
>
>6.the domain of a count or earl.
>
>
>All these years I have been under the (clearly false) impression that 
>precise population-numbers defined these terms. Apparently I have wrong, lo 
>these decades. I have just taken a local poll (only 4 people) and the 
>agreement here is that a city is 100,000 people or more; a town is 999,999 
>people or fewer; a village is 2,000 people or fewer; a hamlet is 500 people 
>or fewer. We four Canadians readily agreed on these numbers, but that might 
>be something we picked up in school that has no relation to the larger 
>world.
>
>Arthur
>
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