Why use this versus <other solution>?

openmundi / world.db

Free open public domain world database 'n' schema for use in any (programming) language (e.g. uses plain text datasets)

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Why use this versus <other solution>? #9

Closed Seldaek closed 11 years ago

Seldaek commented 11 years ago

The unique points I see to this project are:

public domain (geonames is fairly open though)
build your own DB easily

Unless I am mistaken, it looks like this should just be a tool to export geonames data into a sqlite db that includes only stuff you need. I think a tool like that would be pretty cool.

Anyway I hope you don't take this the wrong way, I am just looking for the rationale behind starting yet another open countries/cities db?

geraldb commented 11 years ago

No worries. Good question. Why another project? If another tool fits your needs better please use it. This project started with Sportbook/sport.db and I am going to reuse the countries, regions and cities for my beer.db project, thus, world.db was born. That's why it exists. Does anyone care or need yet another countries/cities db? I don't know. Cheers.

Seldaek commented 11 years ago

Well my point is simply that the data itself does not seem to have unique features compared to other projects, so why start over and not reuse existing sources?

geraldb commented 11 years ago

Good point. Let's see how the project evolves. Cheers.