World Common db for reading

Ye' old general discussion board. Basically, for everything that isn't covered elsewhere. Come here to shoot the breeze, shoot your mouth off, or whatever suits your fancy.
This forum is not for asking programming related questions.

Moderator: General Moderators

Post Reply
User avatar
anjanesh
DevNet Resident
Posts: 1679
Joined: Sat Dec 06, 2003 9:52 pm
Location: Mumbai, India

World Common db for reading

Post by anjanesh »

Im making a site which requires all states and their corresponding cities and all corresponding blocks in the cities in the db. The data is huge and I could not possibly type all those values. I copied it from some govt site and pasted it in notepad and wrote a vb code to write the sql.
These things are pretty common for many sites and I think it'll be a good idea where there is one dedicated IP for a world common db containing all relevant common tables so that anybody can use them for reading. Or even if a person doesn't want to link to the common IP atleast he can export the data from from it. Not only will it save time we can get correct info from one source.
Or is there such a db already ?
User avatar
hawleyjr
BeerMod
Posts: 2170
Joined: Tue Jan 13, 2004 4:58 pm
Location: Jax FL & Spokane WA USA

Post by hawleyjr »

Who would pay for the site? Who would support it? Who would maintain it?
User avatar
feyd
Neighborhood Spidermoddy
Posts: 31559
Joined: Mon Mar 29, 2004 3:24 pm
Location: Bothell, Washington, USA

Post by feyd »

how is this a suggestion?
User avatar
anjanesh
DevNet Resident
Posts: 1679
Joined: Sat Dec 06, 2003 9:52 pm
Location: Mumbai, India

Post by anjanesh »

There is no site as such.
Just a public read-only db containing common entries for generalization.
If at all any org will do this like the W3C for example.
User avatar
feyd
Neighborhood Spidermoddy
Posts: 31559
Joined: Mon Mar 29, 2004 3:24 pm
Location: Bothell, Washington, USA

Post by feyd »

right... but this is the suggestion board for this site..

Moving this to the General board..
User avatar
anjanesh
DevNet Resident
Posts: 1679
Joined: Sat Dec 06, 2003 9:52 pm
Location: Mumbai, India

Post by anjanesh »

This is best I could find. But cant use their server. Need to download this and use on our own server.
25 GB worth information at http://download.wikimedia.org/
10 GB alone in English format while remaining GB in other languages.
User avatar
patrikG
DevNet Master
Posts: 4235
Joined: Thu Aug 15, 2002 5:53 am
Location: Sussex, UK

Post by patrikG »

Yes, downloading any of the Wikimedia DBs is great, but what's the use for this PHP developer's forum?
Post Reply