Which countries should be added to the database ?

Klazu · Post by **Klazu** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:18 pm

magpie wrote:This is the flag of Libya

That's pretty easy to draw by hand. Even I can do it.

magpie · Post by **magpie** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:39 pm

...but be careful to use the right shade of green

Mobutu · Post by **Mobutu** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 5:27 pm

Attention ! The Democratic Republic of Congo has a new flag :

pepitopulpito · Post by **pepitopulpito** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 1:12 am

Hello!
I have a note from El Salvador. Could you please add it to the lists of countries to register notes?
Thank you!

pepitopulpito · Post by **pepitopulpito** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 1:18 am

By the way, this is El Salvador flag...

bocky · Post by **bocky** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 5:44 pm

Democratic Republic of Congo:

El Salvador:

pepitopulpito · Post by **pepitopulpito** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:49 pm

Thank you for adding El Salvador!!! I'll register my note there tomorrow morning!

Registered! El Salvador exists!

milanocapitale · Post by **milanocapitale** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 6:41 pm

I have a friend in Kazakistan...she's studying in milan,now she's at home...maybe...

Gauss · Post by **Gauss** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 6:56 pm

milanocapitale wrote:I have a friend in Kazakistan...she's studying in milan,now she's at home...maybe...

The English name of this country is Kazakhstan, and it is already in the list.

For the record, Senegal has also been added after some desperate user registered his notes from there for Cape Verde instead.

Gauss · Post by **Gauss** » Wed May 03, 2006 6:40 pm

It has been proposed to add the remaining countries to the list on EBT. That way this thread would become obsolete. Concerns that the list might become too messy have been greatly alleviated by the re-arrangement of the list in order to have the 12 member countries of the Eurozone on top of the list (as per June 2005).

Very originally, the list was designed to represent only the countries where the Euro is official (or unofficial, but predominantly used) currency. This idea has been silently relaxed in the mean time and will now be given up. The new policy has been mentioned previously in this thread as "planned": The list will consist of the member of the United Nations. We are not going to address geopolitical issues with the list, and this is an unambiguous criterion. The accepted exceptions are Vatican City (permanent observer at the UN) and Taiwan (whose independence is de facto accepted by most countries). Almost all land area in the world is associated to one of these 193 countries. In the event that someone actually and verifiably manages to obtain a Euro note in a geographic place which cannot be associated to any of these 193 countries, we'll see.

There are many regions in this world with various forms of autonomy, semi- or factual independance, some of which have been discussed earlier in this thread. This post does not set up a new attitude towards the replies there. In some cases, autonomous regions commonly use a flag different from the corresponding UN member. This means that entries from there will appear with a somewhat incorrect flag. That's unfortunate but we can't do anything about it. The only alternative is to abolish the flags altogether, and I'm sure nobody seriously wants that. No system is absolutely perfect.

It would be hoped to be ready for this in time for the relaunch. However, due to the short time and the number of 64 countries to be added, help is needed: Flags. We need for each country in the following list a flag in the format of 10 x 15 pixels. Only flags in the format are useful. Please do not post flags in any larger size. In some cases like Greece (nine stripes) or Nepal (odd shape), smaller flags can be used.
If you would like to help but don't have any webspace you can send in your flags to contact@eurobilltracker.com. Flags can be found via internet search, Wikipedia or other sources, but will in general need resizing.

Thank you for any contribution! [This post was written on behalf of avij and Nerzhul.]

And here's the list:
Antigua and Barbuda
Bahamas
Bahrain
Barbados
Bhutan
Botswana
Brunei
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Central African Republic
Colombia
Comoros
Cote d'Ivoire
Djibouti
Ecuador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Fiji
Gabon
Grenada
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Iraq
Kiribati
Kuwait
Lesotho
Liberia
Malawi
Maldives
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Myanmar
Nauru
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Qatar
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
Saudi Arabia
Sierra Leone
Solomon Islands
Somalia
Sudan
Swaziland
Syria
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Yemen
Zimbabwe

To anticipate expected criticism: Yes, there are two countries in the current list which shouldn't be there according to the policy laid out (Hong Kong and Kosovo); this is due to site-historical reasons. The issue will be resolved eventually. Right now is not really a good time for this. These two mistakes will not serve as precedence cases in any argument.

bocky · Post by **bocky** » Wed May 03, 2006 7:16 pm

Barbados (trying to improve Dakkus' flag...)

Bhutan (also trying to improve Dakkus' flag...)

Nauru (15x10 and with correct proportions)

Nicaragua

Niger

Nigeria

Oman

Pakistan

Palau

Papua New Guinea

Qatar

Rwanda (15x10 and with correct proportions)

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Samoa

Saudi Arabia

Sierra Leone

Solomon Islands

Somalia

Sudan

Swaziland

Syria

Timor-Leste

Togo

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago

Tuvalu

Vanuatu

Yemen

Zimbabwe

More to come! If you think you can make a better looking flag for some country, please do so!

Edit: Added more.

PS: All flags are based on the ones available at CIA World Factbook, so their colours match those in that website.

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Wed May 03, 2006 7:28 pm

Antigua and Barbuda.

(I won't be doing more of these)

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Wed May 03, 2006 7:35 pm

Decided to do more, after all. I will edit this post.

Bahamas

Bahrain

Barbados

Bhutan

Botswana

These are all for now. I might do more flags later if still needed.

klapotec · Post by **klapotec** » Thu May 04, 2006 12:14 am

These flags are based on what's available from Wikipedia... I've toyed with doing the correct proportions versions, and reducing resolution by cubic interpolation, but that's too time consuming and the results don't really look much better; so these are all 15x10 except where really necessary (e.g. Niger's flag is nearly square), in as few colors as possible.

Antigua and Barbuda,

Bahamas,

Bahrain,

Barbados,

Bhutan,

Botswana,

Brunei,

Burundi,

Burkina Faso,

Cambodia,

Central African Republic,

Colombia,

Comoros,

Cote d'Ivoire,

Djibouti,

Ecuador,

Equatorial Guinea,

Eritrea,

Fiji,

Gabon,

Grenada,

Guinea,

Guinea-Bissau,

Guyana,

Haiti,

Iraq,

Kiribati,

Kuwait,

Lesotho,

Liberia,

Malawi,

Maldives,

Marshall Islands,

Micronesia,

Myanmar,

Nauru,

Nicaragua,

Niger,

Nigeria,

Oman,

Palau,

Pakistan,

Papua New Guinea,

Qatar,

Rwanda,

Saint Kitts and Nevis,

Saint Lucia,

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,

Samoa,

Saudi Arabia,

Sierra Leone,

Solomon Islands,

Somalia,

Sudan,

Swaziland,

Syria,

Timor-Leste,

Togo,

Tonga,

Trinidad and Tobago,

Tuvalu,

Vanuatu,

Yemen,

Zimbabwe.

Fell free to change any of these, there's a few I'm not really happy with.

lazza · Post by **lazza** » Thu May 04, 2006 10:09 am

A couple more:

Cambodia:

(hopefully will add some Euros there this summer when I go to see Angkor Wat!!!

)

Myanmar: