[Developers] Question about the backend software and data

[Tim Kientzle]

Johann Petrak wrote:
> 
 > Is the data only accessible via the query API? ...
> This would be important differences to e.g. Wikipedia where ...
> the backend data is fully available as a dump ...

We intend to make our data available via some form of bulk
dump.  Determining a good format is still an open question;
something like RDF would be very complete, but less accessible
for many people.  Some form of tabular dump of particular
areas might be more useful to more people.

We'd be very interested to know what kind of dumps people
are creating for their own use (remember that any dump tool we
would create would pull data using exactly the same API that
you have access to).  That would help us understand what formats
would be most useful to people.

Tim Kientzle