This is with the plain HTML tables on Wikipedia but should be fun for DBPedia folks too...
Dan -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [mySociety:public] An actually useful "mash-up" Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:17:20 +0100 From: Francis Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: mySociety:Public <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is surprisingly good in lots of ways. http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/data-scraping-wikipedia-with-google-spreadsheets/ In which they use Google Spreadsheets to convert a Wikipedia table to an RSS feed and thence to live population maps via Yahoo pipes with no coding required. (Thanks to Tom Lynn, whose subject and text I've stolen too :) ) Francis _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
