On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Rhett Garber <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Martin Sarsale > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Now, I'm not too sure what is the natural id of the Place documents: >> the place name is an option, but probably there's going to be more >> than one place with the same name. Any hints? > > I'm a little biased, and this has nothing to do with couchdb, > but I might recommend using the Yelp API for your businesses. If you > use the Phone number API > (http://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/phone_api) you can a lot > of good 'place' metadata as well > as a unique id.
YELP API looks good, but unfortunately (not!) there're other countries on earth apart from US and I happen to live in one of those :) anyway, using the phone # for ID sounds good, maybe I could add a prefix? > >> PD: bonus question, I'm planning to use Python and Django for the app, >> what's the recommended couchdb module for py? > > The couchdb python library (http://code.google.com/p/couchdb-python/) > seems to best from my perspective (not django). > Some of the others do more ORM type stuff for you, which might be > more useful for django I dunno. tnx > -- Martin Sarsale - [email protected]
