3253) What is the file naming convention for HKPA.SCENIC?
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This article is from the Hong Kong FAQ, by John Ho john@jho.com with numerous contributions by others.
3253) What is the file naming convention for HKPA.SCENIC?
We have a naming convention for the GIF picture filenames for
HKscenic files. Pictures are separated into three categories:
Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and New Territory. The year of the
picture is also attached to the filename to indicate the time
of this picture. Then a counter is tagged onto the end which is
incremented as the number of files grow. The basic syntax is
as shown below where YYYY is for the year and [a-z] is the
letter that I will tag on as the archive grows.
Filename syntax:
HK Island, use hkYYYY[a-z].gif
Kowloon, use kwYYYY[a-z].gif
New Territory, use ntYYYY[a-z].gif
For the files which you don't know the exact year, you can
round it off. For example, if you know a picture was taken
in the 90's you can just use 1990 for the year. That should
be close enough. Or if you can be more exact, for example,
use 1990 for early 90's and 1995 for late 90's. That's fine
too.
When you send the picture to Thomas, you don't need to append the
letter [a-z] after the year in the filename. He'll work that out
for you.
(Special thanks to John Ho <john@jho.com> for the idea of convention)
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