Welcome to FOTW (Flags Of The World) download site This site contains the complete current archive of Flags of the World, a comprehensive collection of vexillological information maintained by Rob Raeside from information submitted to the Flags of the World mailing list. If you want to build your own local copy of Flags of the World, follow the instructions below. If you want to update your own local copy, skip down to below the line of asterisks (******************). Be advised that the full site contains over 900 Mb of material in over 120,000 files when unzipped. To build your own local copy, make a directory called FOTW. ----------------------------------------------------------- DOWNLOADING FOTW (WHOLE SITE) You can obtain the entire contents of FOTW using the following zip files. These files will provide you with FOTW up to the end of October 2009. Download and unzip the following files into your FOTW directory (the zip files contain path information that will automatically unzip them into a folder called 'flags'): ./allflg01.zip ./allflg09.zip ./allflg17.zip ./allflg02.zip ./allflg10.zip ./allflg18.zip ./allflg03.zip ./allflg11.zip ./allflg04.zip ./allflg12.zip ./allflg05.zip ./allflg13.zip ./allflg06.zip ./allflg14.zip ./allflg07.zip ./allflg15.zip ./allflg08.zip ./allflg16.zip Download and unzip the following files into your FOTW directory (the zip files contain path information that will automatically unzip them into a folder called 'images', split into 26 sub-folders, a, b, c,...z) ./allimg01.zip ./allimg11.zip ./allimg21.zip ./allimg31.zip ./allimg02.zip ./allimg12.zip ./allimg22.zip ./allimg32.zip ./allimg03.zip ./allimg13.zip ./allimg23.zip ./allimg33.zip ./allimg04.zip ./allimg14.zip ./allimg24.zip ./allimg34.zip ./allimg05.zip ./allimg15.zip ./allimg25.zip ./allimg06.zip ./allimg16.zip ./allimg26.zip ./allimg07.zip ./allimg17.zip ./allimg27.zip ./allimg08.zip ./allimg18.zip ./allimg28.zip ./allimg09.zip ./allimg19.zip ./allimg29.zip ./allimg10.zip ./allimg20.zip ./allimg30.zip Download and unzip the following files (the zip files contain path information that will automatically unzip them into a folder called 'misc') ./allmisc1.zip ./allmisc2.zip Once you have unzipped all the files, go to FOTW/flags/index.html and enjoy the flags. To keep your local copy of FOTW up to date, come back here monthly to receive updates (described below). These updates are generally provided about the beginning of the month. ************************************************************** UPDATING YOUR LOCAL COPY To update your own local copy of FOTW, determine when your copy was last updated (check the date on the index.html file). If it was updated last month, you need only do step 1, if it is more than one month's update is required, do step 2 as necessary. If you wish to delete files that are now inoperative in the directory, go to step 3. IMPORTANT NOTE: if you require more than one month's update, be sure to update the oldest material first (i.e., do step 2 first). STEP 1 To update with the past month's material only: All zip files are provided with path information included. If you have "Use folder names" checked, they will automatically unzip into the /flags/, /images/, /misc/ folders and sub-folders. You simply need to download the files and unzip them into your FOTW directory. Material from October 2009: ./0910-flags1.zip pages changed in October 2009 ./0910-image.zip all flag images changed in October 2009 ./0910-misc.zip one miscellansous file added in October 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------ STEP 2 To update with material from previous months: Material from September 2009: ./0909-flags1.zip pages changed in September 2009 ./0909-image.zip all flag images changed in September 2009 ./0909-misc.zip one miscellansous file added in September 2009 Material from August 2009: ./0908-flags1.zip pages changed in August 2009 ./0908-flags2.zip pages changed in August 2009 ./0908-flags3.zip pages changed in August 2009 ./0908-flags4.zip pages changed in August 2009 ./0908-image.zip all flag images changed in August 2009 ./0908-misc.zip one miscellansous file added in August 2009 Material from July 2009: ./0907-flags1.zip pages changed in July 2009 ./0907-flags2.zip pages changed in July 2009 ./0907-image.zip all flag images changed in July 2009 ./0907-misc.zip one miscellansous file added in July 2009 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- STEP 3 To clean up your directories by removing deleted files. The following text files contain lists of files that became inoperative in the past four months. These can be safely deleted from your local copy - but do be careful about file names. File xx-yyyyy.gif may be dead, but replaced by file xx_yyyyy.gif. ./0910_del.txt files to be deleted after the October 2009 update ./0909_del.txt files to be deleted after the September 2009 update ./0908_del.txt files to be deleted after the August 2009 update ./0907_del.txt files to be deleted after the July 2009 update ***********************************************************************