[Developers] Any good sources of license-compatible data that need importing into Freebase?

Paul Tomblin ptomblin at xcski.com
Sun Sep 9 01:28:47 UTC 2007


Quoting Peter Burns (rictic at gmail.com):
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm a coder with some time on his hands, a penchant for screen-scraping and
> data transforming, and a deep ideological agreement with putting data into a
> convenient form for easy access.
> 
> Know databases that need to be imported into Freebase?  I'd like to
> contribute.

Do you know anything about scraping data from PDF files?  Many countries
publish their aeronautical data only in PDF formats.  I used to get this
data from the DAFIF (Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File), but
the US Government that published it withdrew it from public use.


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