Re: Piggy Bank and road trips

Ryan Lee wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been playing a bit with Piggy Bank [1] since it could technically
> qualify as my day job (more bluntly: I'm part of the SIMILE team).  The
> mapping feature inspired me to do some road trip planning, and I thought
> the process might be fun to share with the wider semantic web community.
> 
> I took my OS X Address Book data and made it into FOAF, querying Google
> Maps for geo coordinates.  I then used Piggy Bank's harvesting
> architecture to scrape Motel 6's site for their locations around the
> country, or enough of them for me to have a good idea of where I could
> stay each night in states in which I don't seem to know anybody.  A
> little bit more on the experience, and the resulting map:
> 
>   http://ryanlee.org/journal/one?journal_id=3861
> 
> Now, if only I had a car...

Scrape dealers!! ;-)

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