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Exclusion lists when crawling web directories

I have a case where I'm building a connector between a federated search engine, and an archive that's serving all of their data via HTTP. They've been kind enough to have their pipeline generate a series of index files for each day that I can use…
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Public datasets containing less-boring and more detailed data

I'm looking for datasets, which allow drilling down to something more spesific and less published than datasets, which can only answer to simple questions like "what is the anti-social behavior rate in certain cities" or "what percent of youngsters…
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Using Google Maps Data

Is it possible to obtain a dataset of all search results in a google maps search? For example: if I want a list of all gas stations in Chicago, complete with addresses, store name, latitude-longitude coordinates etc. Is such a data set against…
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What's a good file format for sharing 3D models of cities?

Some councils have 3D models of the buildings which they're considering sharing. What would be a good format to encourage them to use, if possible? I had thought 3DS would be the standard, but according to Wikipedia, the shortcomings are pretty…
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What are best practices for where to answer agency specific Open Data Policy implementation questions?

USAID recently launched a Frequently Asked Questions page to handle Q&A concerning their policy ADS 579. These Q&As are directed at both internal and external audiences. I could see posting the questions on this site, but based on the questions, it…
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Where can I find publicly available data about internet usage?

I'm searching for a data set in the public domain that quantifies degree of internet usage on a global basis for small geographic areas. For example is there a data set that shows total traffic (e.g. in GBs) consumed in each postal code? I'm…
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Looking for home sale data

I'm looking for home sale data that includes info such as an address, sale price, home type, sq. ft., etc. Where (what dataset(s)) can I get that data from?
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Average height of males and females for each of the 50 US states: Where can I download the data?

Where can I download data for average height of males and females for each of the individual 50 states? RAW data or SQL data is fine, it does not have to be charted or formatted - I can do that myself - just can't find any data.
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open database photos of human faces with age

Is there an open database with photos of the human face, with related data such as age, sex or ethnicity, but I am most interested in age.
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car parking Dataset in US

I am looking for a dataset of car-parking in any city. I am doing a research about car-parking / traffic and their impact in the life of US cities. Is there any public dataset that you recommend ?
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American Indian reservation boundaries

Complete reservation boundaries from the BIA's TAAMS program and BLM's cadastral survey shape files for American Indian reservations. It seems BIA is not contributing datasets for reservation boundaries which is not trust data and BLM is not…
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Looking for longitudinal population data by age and sex, any country

I'm looking for longitudinal population counts by age and sex, for any country. Table 12411-0006 in the Destatis Genesis DB gives me exactly what I want for Germany, from 1970 through 2013. The first and last few rows look like this: Date …
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successful open data advocacy website

I'm part of a local advocacy group working on getting local government to open up more data and adopt open data policies. We're also trying to raise awareness about the role open data plays in our city. While we're setting up CKAN we'd also like to…
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Extreme weather dataset for all countries from 2008 to 2011

Where could I find the dataset for Geographical Hot Spots (Hurricanes, Tsunami, Earth quakes, Floods etc) associated with each countries?
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Energy Consumption of individual buildings

We are testing academic algorithms on energy consumption. I am looking for a Energy per building dataset. Is there any city that open such kind of data?
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