[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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