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Re:Factual Sees Open Data As Its Future by johannchiang on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @01:02PM (#879498)
Looks like wiki spreadsheets for structural data with API. Still has limitation that we can't add columns, for example latitude and longitude for restaurants.

On revenue model, it is ok to charge for premium API since it hosts infrastructure. Still hope to have some mechanism like Hg or Git to make open database distributed and synced, so other companies can host the data if they wish.

Re:Factual Sees Open Data As Its Future by johannchiang on Wednesday October 14, 2009 @05:19PM (#882183)
Just found CouchDB solving peer-based replication, and it's not structural.