Re: Ideas for World Hierarchy Example

From: Neo <neo55592_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 10 Jan 2007 14:44:38 -0800
Message-ID: <1168469078.487018.299920@i56g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>

> > ... websites similar to http://worldatlas.com
>
> One easy source of info: wikipedia. Put all that stuff into a
> knowledgebase and you've got something.

Wiki has got way too much data to stuff in a single iddy biddy RAM-limited db (that is until someone can donate me a fully-populated, 64-bit, quad-processor machine).

> I wouldn't suggest a hierarchy is a good way to go, though.

I used World Hierarchy figuratively. Underlying data will actually form a spaghetti structure. When veiwed thru a tree view it will look hierarchal. When viewed thru a table it will look tabular. When view thru an API it will look pointeral. Received on Wed Jan 10 2007 - 16:44:38 CST