Programming DataEntry&Forms: Population of Official Common Data Lists
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As a programmer of data-entry forms of all kinds, I often find myself making fields for things like Country and State.
Consider: Perhaps a list the 50 United States names is an easy thing to find (does one include DC?) , but the countries are not. Nearly every site you find has a differing list with all of the political goings on over the years, and they become outdated quickly.
What's the best practice regarding population of these kinds of lists? Is there an official list somewhere that one uses to populate these kinds of formal/official fields? Where do you get this data from, when it's not exactly specified in the specs?
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