Travel Media Files

These files have been inherited from Pocketinfo, reproduced by kind permission from Steve Litchfield of 3lib

Air
Handy traveller information on World airports (Thanks to Chris Dewey)
Airports, check-in times, handy phone numbers and travel information to and from the nearest city. Added 27 Jan 1999
Airline identification codes
The special abbreviations at the start of quoted flight numbers
(thanks to Jeremy Theal)
Top 50 airports
Name, standard abbreviation and number of passengers per year
Airports, countries and locations
Name and abbreviations, cities, countries and latitude/longitude

General:
Travel Sickness reference
The causes of travel sickness and tips on how to avoid it without using drugs
Holiday cost planner (thanks to William Palmer)
Per-night and total costs, based on breakdown of costs per day in individual categories
Vaccination information (thanks to Mark Trigg)
Worldwide, country by country, Disease and Immunisation Checklist. Very useful for consulting before travelling abroad and also when your flight has been re-routed via another country and then delayed etc.
All-purpose packing list (thanks to W Palmer)
Home check-list before leaving (thanks to W Palmer)

International Information
European Fuel Guide (thanks to: Viktor Hollman)
Availability and prices throughout Europe. Added 14 May 1999
Backpack Traveller (thanks to KVCLX)
Essential information for travellers backpacking round the world Added Apr 7th 1999
Dialling codes for middle european countries and cities (thanks to Manfred J. Kaufmann)
Also includes GMT offsets. Added Mar 26th 1999
Population distribution across the globe,shown in Mercator projection (Added 1 Feb 1999)
The largest cities in the world. It includes city name, country, population, and rank.Who would have guessed that Lagos, Nigeria is he world's 12th largest city?
Nations database (thanks to S. Vazzana)
All countries and other territories having an ISO code. For each, the following information is provided: Short Name, Full Name (as recognised by the UN), ISO 3166 country code (and in the EU, use the codes in brackets, as recommended by EC Secretariat-General (SEC(96)1820), Capital, Citizen (generic name), Adjective, Currency, Currency ISO Code and Currency Sub-unit. The list of countries has been compiled by D.Jank and K.Burns, European Commission Translation Service.
Planet Earth reference (thanks to: C.Newgas)
Statistics and facts about our home planet
International Dialling codes (thanks to: C.Newgas and Eytan Abrahams)
Track codes back to individual countries. Also time differences at a glance
World database (thanks to Chris Morency)
Countries, regions, locations, areas, capitals, population, languages, government type, GDP, currencies etc.
Another World database (thanks to John J Rodda)
Countries, currencies, population, area, religion, visitor information and much more. Read John's original notes in Series 3 WRD or Series 5 WORD format. 15 language vocabulary converter (thanks to: Peter Grayley)
750 words in english, french, german, japanese, italian, spanish, swahili and many more...
Tipping around the world
How much to tip for different services in each country

World-wide contacts:
Psion official worldwide contact names and numbers (thanks to: C.Newgas)
Official contacts, telephone and fax numbers, in alphabetical order (Updated 16 Feb 99) International Organisations (thanks to: Andrew Ruane)
Truly International Organisations with contact information such as address, phone, fax numbers and web-sites
International emergency telephone numbers (thanks to: Simon Wolf)
Police, Fire and Ambulance numbers for over 70 countries

Inter-planet(!):
Space exploration timetable until the Millenium (thanks to Nick Matthews for much of the information in this section. See also his Psion and space-related web site.)
Launches and notable dates for all manned and unmanned space flight
Manned space flight over the years
Flight details, crew information and notes. All entries are roughly in chronological order
Unmanned space exploration over the years
Dates, destinations and results. Man's first attempts to reach out beyond our planet.

Country specific:
Sweden:
Inter-city distances (Source: Peter Fristedt)
Cross reference over distances (km) between some 30 major cities in Sweden, along with other useful information. (Added 10 Mar 99, S5 version updated 17 Aug 99)
The Netherlands:
Dutch telephony area codes (thanks to Ilmar Kotte)
There are 2 fields: the location (city, town, village etc) and one or more areacodes for that location. The database contains ALL dutch towns (almost 3200), large and small, together with, for the smaller villages, the administrative jurisdiction to which they belong (in brackets). (Added 12 August 1999)
Hotel guide (thanks to Rob Heerdink)
Hotels, contact details and star ratings
Amsterdam Guide: things to do, places to go in Amsterdam. Donated by Aaron Summers Effler
Australia:
Postcodes(Source: Sean Bradley, added 18 July 1999)
Triple J radio frequency guide (Source: Paul Wilkinson)
Triple J is a popular government run radio station in Australia. It has pretty much a national coverage, but finding the correct frequency can be difficult as you travel around.
UK:
UK TV transmitters (thanks to Dave Walker)
UK TV transmitter stations, detailing channel numbers and power outputs (includes channels for OnDigital). (Added 15 June 1999)
UK telephone code changes for 1999/2000 (thanks to Kevin Warbrick)
How the mobile, pager and area codes are going to change from mid 1999 through to a cut over in mid 2000 (Added 16 Feb 1999)
Useful contact numbers(Source: Jonathan Thomas)
Helpful contact numbers to be used on any occasion or in any situation. It's a list of 'first contact' telephone numbers for assorted organizations and authorities, from which the user can get help or a further contact number/address. (Added 13 Feb 99)
London tube information(Source: Michael G Lewis)
London underground stations, with line and basic station information
Radio stations (thanks to Tim Richardson)
A selection of useful radio stations and frequencies
Car registration regional letter codes (thanks to Jonathan Thomas)
Two-letter regional codes describing where in the country a vehicle was first registered
STD (telephone) codes (thanks to Mike Cockerill)
Codes, towns, counties and countries, plus occasional notes
Postcodes (thanks to Mike Cockerill)
Towns, counties, codes and areas
Mountains (thanks to Andrew Whaley)
Mountains, heights, grid references and OS map titles
County/district facts - England
Areas, administrative centres and populations
County/district facts - Scotland
Areas, administrative centres and populations
County/district facts - Wales
Areas, administrative centres and populations
Distances between UK cities (thanks to: Charles Newgas)
Many-to-many table - use it for simple journey planning
Austria:
Taxi ranks in Vienna (source: Manfred J. Kaufmann)
All taxi stands in Vienna, with addresses and phone number, for tourists who want to call the nearest taxi. This is much cheaper than calling the taxi via radio-taxi-services. (Added 26 Mar 99)
New Zealand:
Attractions, accommodation and eating places (source: Allan Caldwell)
See also VIP's web site for more information. (Added 25 Feb 99)
Germany:
Car registration codes (thanks to Jochen Marquardt)
German car registration codes as shown on numberplates. e.g. M stands for Munich, K for Cologne, HH for Hamburg etc. (Added 1 Feb 1999)
Basic german vocabulary (thanks to Graham Parks)
Telephone dialling codes (thanks to Oliver Garcia)
France:
Départements (source: Lex Dunn)
All French départments with their capital, the region it belongs to and their administrative number. Especially handy when you travel in France, because the last two digits in their car license plates are the administrative number of the department where it is registered.
America:
USA area codes (thanks to G Grozier)
(Codes, states and cities)
U.S.A. 800 numbers (thanks to G Grozier)
(Freephone numbers for hotels/motels, airlines, and car rental companies)
U.S.A. radio stations (thanks to Richard Farthing)
(600 FM and AM radio stations, with frequencies, states and cities)
Slovenia:
Essential travellers information (thanks to David Bowman)
Accessibility, travelling, money, communications and much more.
Russia:
Moscow hotels (thanks to Igor Akaev)
The 100 best hotels, with full details, notes and ratings
Republic of South Africa:
Postal codes (thanks to Ian Alport)
Towns and PO Box and/or Street codes as appropriate
Italy:
Italian-English dictionary (thanks to Salvo Micciche)
CAP postal codes (thanks to Salvo Micciche)
(CAP stands for Codici di Avviamento Postale)
Hong Kong & the Far East:
Bahasa Indonesian phrasebook (thanks to Mark Lanigan)
English-Indonesian, 430 words and phrases, searchable by categories: Food, Health, Hotels, Shops, etc.
Thai phrasebook (thanks to Wee Boon Chong)
English-Thai, 250 words and phrases

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