Benson, William (GE Global Research, consultant)
Benson at ge.com
Thu Jan 12 21:03:13 CST 2012
I am pulling in the GEOdata file now into a table I created for it in Access... Wow, the AllCountries.txt is a GB just as a tab delimited text file, I have doubts Access will get it all in.... will report back when it dies or succeeds. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 8:36 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Northwinds Isn't "cutting it" Geodata? Countries/States/Cities/Airports - Cities: http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/free-geographical-database-of-all-countries-over-8-million-places-geonames/ Airports: http://www.partow.net/miscellaneous/airportdatabase/ or http://openflights.org/data.html which includes airlines and routes databases. -- Stuart On 13 Jan 2012 at 1:03, Benson, William (GE Global Re wrote: > > Hi I am looking for some interesting (non-proprietary) data to demonstrate an add-in I built, which is designed to reorder / rename / Reduce data columns, as well as filter data. > > I am trying to prepare some demos, but I do not have any interesting source data. Most of the data I do have, belongs to a client (I am not going there!). > > The demo should inspire an audience to want to tackle their own data sets with gusto - but if the data is boring, I feel my tool will be guilty of being boring (by association). > > I suppose it is hard to think what would satisfy a large audience. Customers / Orders = boring (IMHO). Box Office Data might be more interesting. Music Hit Parade data going back to antiquity could interest some audiophiles, but not many other types. > > I wish my brain were not in lock-down, but I can't think of interesting data themes which one can find relatively cheaply. > > TIA for any suggestions. > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com