On Aug 19, 7:28 pm, Philip Hallstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was wondering where people scrape information for the beginning of > > production db's for particular things. > > > Like if I wanted to have a website related to cars. Someones isn't > > actually entering in every vehicle type manually theres got to be a > > solid method of finding that data somewhere that you can transform > > into what you need? > > > Any hint/tricks for this? > > Google. > > http://www.google.com/search?q=car+make+model+database > > Looks like there are a couple of companies that make this information > available. > > You might also find the government has basic information (census type > stuff maybe), but most of the time you're probably going to end up > paying someone else for it. > > -philip
Indeed, this is market research data and it is an industry unto itself. The less detail you want, the cheaper it will be, and beyond some level of detail you are getting into proprietary models which typically require money, licensing, equity, or all three. -eric -eric --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
