I believe Edmund ([email protected]) is planning to offer a
quite competitive cost-covering charge for commercial use of the data,
and his data will have more eyes on it from our volunteers. Fair enough
if you'd rather do it yourself, but you risk missing out on trickier to
scrape data such as independent candidates that aren't listed properly
on party websites and data we find and add manually.
Not wanting to squash innovation or whatever, but I'd think that
developer time is best spent building cool applications on top of the
data than collecting it in the first place.
Tim
Democracy Club http://www.democracyclub.org.uk/
On 16/02/10 16:27, Rob McKinnon wrote:
On 16 February 2010 16:19, Francis Irving<[email protected]> wrote:
While a very pleasing and fashionable hobby, why not join forces with
Edmund?
I think one, or both of us have commercial objectives. So too does the
other PPC scraping effort I know of. This makes joining forces more
difficult. Easier to let a hundred flowers blossom.
Rob
There's plenty else to screenscrape, without duplicating effort!
Francis
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