[Developers] Freebase newbie: simple question

[R. Pito Salas]

Shawn

Great, you're da man!

Thanks,

Pito
On Feb 25, 2009, at 7:32 PM, Shawn Simister wrote:

> Vishal Talwar wrote:
>>
>> According to Wikipedia:
>> "The postal abbreviation is same as ISO 3166-2 subdivision code for  
>> all fifty states."
>>
>> We hold the ISO 3166-2 subdivision code on the property /location/ 
>> administrative_division/iso_3166_2_code. Values should be of the  
>> form "US-[state code]" for all US states, so the transformation  
>> seems pretty straightforward from there.
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>> Vishal
> In MQL that would look like this:
>
> {
>     "country" : {
>         "id" : "/en/united_states"
>     },
>     "iso_3166_2_code" : null,
>     "name" : "Massachusetts",
>     "type" : "/location/administrative_division"
> }
>
> You can try this query out in the Query Editor Tool. Or you can  
> fetch the data directly from your rails apps with the following code:
>
> require 'net/http'
>
> query_string = '{"query":{"country":{"id":"/en/ 
> united_states 
> "},"iso_3166_2_code":null,"name":"Massachusetts","type":"/location/ 
> administrative_division"}}'
> query_uri = URI.parse('http://www.freebase.com/api/service/mqlread?query=' 
>  + URI.escape(query_string))
> result = Net::HTTP.get(query_uri)
>
> Then it's just a matter of parsing the JSON, getting the value of  
> iso_3166_2_code and removing the "US-" from the beginning.
>
> Shawn
>
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