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This Information page will provide relevant news, interesting new uses of Gazetteer data, notification of new products and services, plus customer service information.

Our Customers page lists some of our clients and the Usage page shows the varied and innovative ways in which our products have been used.

Last updated 12/09/2003.

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How is Gazetteer data used?

Our flagship, The Global Gazetteer^TM, details more than 4.7 million populated locations around the world and its data gets used by a variety of companies world-wide for very different purposes:

	100,000 places for the 3-D Atlas
	All airports/airstrips for a company transporting animals world-wide, to derive shipping rates
	World-wide postcode, town and province data for address cleaning and data entry validation
	Port and airport data for a law enforcement agency
	German postcodes and latitude/longitude data for a customer service centre system
	Australian and Japanese postcodes, lat/long, population and employment data for insurance companies analysing flood and earthquake risks
	Places in Europe, El Salvador and Lebanon for a vehicle tracking system
	World-wide locations for a number of Internet mapping companies
	European places and postcodes for several European transport companies
	100,000 places for the BBC Holiday Programme web site
	If you have something to add, please e-mail us.

Product updates

September 2003	Major changes to structure of web site by the inclusion of more detailed statistical information for individual countries. Complete revision of sample files, plus addition of additional files relating to railway stations and variant place names. Further work on local script names.
June 2003	Minor updates as part of transfer to new server.
December 2002	New statistics available for download, inclusion of local script names, extended coverage of language variant names and inclusion of additional postcode data
June 2002	New statistics and presentation available for download, plus updated height and postcode data
October 2001	New comprehensive database of given names, updated statistics file, extended and revised data for railway stations, port and airports, plus postcodes
February 2001	Additional reference files available for free download
January 2001	Mailing list introduced for direct product news and updates by e-mail
December 2000	The Global Gazetteer has expanded to include detailed information on time zones and Daylight Savings Time rules in a standardised way
September 2000	Web site updated and extended
July 1999	New postcodes for Sri Lanka, and Portugal added Population data continues to be upgraded Changes to company information as ALLM Systems move from Watford to Bournemouth
June 1999	Updated statistics file to reflect recent intake of postcodes for Malaysia, Indonesia, Czech Republic and Croatia Added more detailed population figures for Estonia LOCODES now attached to major transportation nodes
February 1999	Population range figures added to main statistics page
December 25th, 1998	New web site on-line

Updated: 12 September 2003