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World Common db for reading

Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:47 pm
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 ?

Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:59 pm
by hawleyjr
Who would pay for the site? Who would support it? Who would maintain it?

Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 9:38 pm
by feyd
how is this a suggestion?

Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:01 pm
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.

Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:12 pm
by feyd
right... but this is the suggestion board for this site..

Moving this to the General board..

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 7:02 am
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.

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 7:49 am
by patrikG
Yes, downloading any of the Wikimedia DBs is great, but what's the use for this PHP developer's forum?