OBID Project
The Open Business Information Directory's goal is to create a consolidated
worldwide categorized list of businesses. This list is to be community
maintained, allowing for addtions and corrections of listings, and the
ability to add new data elements when needed.
News:
Feb 9, 2009:
the first data collection is on line. There are currently
over 2 million records in the database, mostly from Canada and Australia.
We have configured a searcher based on apache-solr to help find records,
search forms are at the top right of each page.
Work continues on the OBID-Spider, it is being adjusted to require
less manual intervention. We should be in a position to run the next scans
in a few weeks.
Feb 10, 2009:
We have a page of
Typical searches that we are using for
testing, and as demonstration of the system.
Canada by Province browseable
lists are available.
Feb 23, 2009:
We have started geocoding the locations in our database. These fields will be
usable by projects that are interested in creating proximity searches, or
developing for hand held devices.