Another free data source. (Commercial plans also available.)
Large number of data sources and what looks like a friendly number of free API calls while you are building an application.
Observation: Finding one data source or project seems to lead to several others in the same area.
Definitely worth a visit.
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PS: The abundance of online data sources opens the door to semantic mappings (can you say topic maps?) that enhance the value of these data sets.
Such as resolving the semantic impedance between the data sets.
Topic map artifacts as commercial products.
The trick is going to be discovering (and resolving) semantic impedances that people are willing to pay to avoid.
Here’s more on Infochimps: http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2010/11/infochimps-and-scaling-of-dataset-value.html – worth reading the comments too.
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