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Use case: tiger map/census data: have it your way

From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:06:18 -0600
To: RDF Data Access Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
Message-Id: <1079546778.30351.7433.camel@dirk>

The U.S. Census Bureau provides some really nify data
  http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tiger2003/tgr2003.html
it's public domain.

I want to do a query like
	tell me the lat, lon, name, and type
	of everything within 50 miles of Cambridge, MA

Right now, I have to download all the files, unzip them,
read a bunch of docs, write some software, blah blah blah.

I'd like to just look at it as a big RDF graph and issue
a query.

Hmm... it's not clear they (the census folks) have motivation
to offer a query service. But clearly a third party could.

-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
see you at the WWW2004 in NY 17-22 May?
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