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:Marcus was apparently delighted to find, using this principle, that OOMRAWUTTEE was modern AMRAOTI (both names will code to ‘-MRT’). He published a pamphlet which is long since out of print, with coded tables for the 3,900 Post Offices that existed in India in 1877, when they were renamed in standardised form and continued until independence.
:The principle is quite easy to remember and helps enormously when looking up placenames in atlases and gazetteers.”
*Robert S. Cragg’s [http://worldpostmarks.net/aboutthesite.htm World Postmarks] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20111107140337/http://worldpostmarks.net/aboutthesite.htm archive.org] link)
**[http://worldpostmarks.net/HTML%20Countries/IndiaandStates.htm India and States] Pre-Independence India and Princely States.([https://web.archive.org/web/20120120201731/http://worldpostmarks.net/HTML%20Countries/IndiaandStates.htm archive.org] link). Sourced from ''English Names for Indian Places; a Coded Index of Indian Post Offices'' by Marcus F C Martin, published 1966. Available at the [[British Library]]
**[http://worldpostmarks.net/HTML%20Countries/pakistan.htm Pakistan], [http://worldpostmarks.net/HTML%20Countries/burma.htm Burma]
*[http://s3.amazonaws.com/rootstech/original/Maps%20Syllabus%20.pdf?1348261228 Finding the Obscure and the Elusive: Geographic Information On the Web] A presentation by James L. Tanner at Rootstech 2013
