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 *[http://www.unece.org/ United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)] - Environment and Human Settlements, Transport,  Statistics, Economic Analysis, Population Analysis, Industrial Restructuring, Energy and Enterprise Development, Trade, Industry and Enterprise Development, Timber, '''Agricultural Standards''', Coordinating Unit for Operational Activities, Transport, Health and Environment Pan-European Programme. 10 pages of different types of [[Apple]]s, need I say more. [[Reference]]-quality stuff. See also [[UNECE]]
+* [http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/service/main.htm UN/LOCODE] by [[UNECE]] UN/LOCODE provides code elements for more than 36.000 names of ports, airports, rail and road terminals, postal exchange offices, border crossing points and other locations used in trade and transport in 234 countries.
+:+ gateway into all [[ISO 3166-1]] (country codes) and some [[ISO 3166-2]] (subdivision codes)
 *[http://www.unece.org/cefact/ United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business] - Tons and Tons of specifications/advisories. [[Refenrence]]-quality stuff. '''A must see!!'''
+* [ISO http://www.iso.org International Organization for Standardization] - They have a bad practice of charging lots of money for any [[reference]]-quality data. - See [[ISO]] for more info on ISO and Consumerium
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 ==Foundations==