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Look at Wikipedia's lists of things. For your particular examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of

Look at Wikipedia's lists of things. For your particular examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state Some of them are quite meta, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists For a more structured source, Wikidata aims to be that, but I cannot comment on its completeness.

sbr464 8y ago
Structured, maintained API though, not general knowledge. I personally see an issue that someone has to accumulate their own stash of structured data for common knowledge (random examples) like: countries, zip codes, valid HTML5 element names, css properties, hex colors, common naming prefix/suffixes/professional titles, etc. A growing list of work repeated by each dev team/company for really no reason. No complaint about this repo, at all, just seeking if a solution exists.
- darkerside 8y ago
  Here's a platform specific example. https://github.com/SmileyChris/django-countries/ https://github.com/SmileyChris/django-countries/
- thinkalone 8y ago
  There is Corpora: https://github.com/dariusk/corpora/tree/master/data https://github.com/dariusk/corpora/tree/master/data
  - sbr464 8y ago
    Thanks, will check it out.
  - sedatk 8y ago
    > Corpora is a collection of small files. It is not meant to be an exhaustive source of anything: a list of resources should contain somewhere in the vicinity of 1000 items.
- bennofs 8y ago
  Wikidata has a SPARQL API though
JacobDotVI 8y ago
Often times instead of the list of US Sates, you actually want to list of US States and Territories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories... For example when the intent is "list of place where the USPS ships" or "list of state-level political jurisdictions where US residents live"
- sbr464 8y ago
  Let’s move this tidbit to a structered api of common knowledge! Dewey decimal for data, not just a generic search engine for datasets in different formats (like the recent google datasets site), but a familiar, goto resource.
  - Piskvorrr 8y ago
    Um...why not https://www.wikidata.org/ https://www.wikidata.org/ ?
    - bpchaps 8y ago
      Have you ever used wikidata? It's kind of a shitshow.
- eli 8y ago
  Yes! Surprisingly often I am unable to complete a form because there is no option in the State field for Washington, DC.

sbr464 8y ago

Structured, maintained API though, not general knowledge. I personally see an issue that someone has to accumulate their own stash of structured data for common knowledge (random examples) like: countries, zip codes, valid HTML5 element names, css properties, hex colors, common naming prefix/suffixes/professional titles, etc. A growing list of work repeated by each dev team/company for really no reason. No complaint about this repo, at all, just seeking if a solution exists.

darkerside 8y ago
Here's a platform specific example. https://github.com/SmileyChris/django-countries/ https://github.com/SmileyChris/django-countries/
thinkalone 8y ago
There is Corpora: https://github.com/dariusk/corpora/tree/master/data https://github.com/dariusk/corpora/tree/master/data
- sbr464 8y ago
  Thanks, will check it out.
- sedatk 8y ago
  > Corpora is a collection of small files. It is not meant to be an exhaustive source of anything: a list of resources should contain somewhere in the vicinity of 1000 items.
bennofs 8y ago
Wikidata has a SPARQL API though

JacobDotVI 8y ago

Often times instead of the list of US Sates, you actually want to list of US States and Territories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories... For example when the intent is "list of place where the USPS ships" or "list of state-level political jurisdictions where US residents live"

sbr464 8y ago
Let’s move this tidbit to a structered api of common knowledge! Dewey decimal for data, not just a generic search engine for datasets in different formats (like the recent google datasets site), but a familiar, goto resource.
- Piskvorrr 8y ago
  Um...why not https://www.wikidata.org/ https://www.wikidata.org/ ?
  - bpchaps 8y ago
    Have you ever used wikidata? It's kind of a shitshow.
eli 8y ago
Yes! Surprisingly often I am unable to complete a form because there is no option in the State field for Washington, DC.