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Re: Garbage In, Garbage Out: Why Scraping Doesn't Work for L... by mbarr on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @11:49AM (#703915)
It looks like it still needs a lot of work. As a quick test I looked for Sports Bars in London (via their categories) and it returned an Antique Shop in Westerham. I then tried editing the record to remove irrelevant categories and got a server error.
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Re: Garbage In, Garbage Out: Why Scraping Doesn't Work for L... by jack_deneut on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @01:31PM (#704148)
The only cities we have good data for are Prague, Copenhagen, and lower Manhattan. Try http://www.nelso.com/cz/prague/
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