[okfn-discuss] crazy idea about a database of vehicle registration plates

Fri Aug 20 10:09:02 UTC 2010

...oops...sorry for the response to the list! (but I like Stefano the
archaeologist thinking of future archaeology)

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2010/8/20, andrea giacomelli <pibinko at gmail.com>:
> ciao steko, come stai ? - ti stai dando all'archeologia industriale;) ?
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> a dopo
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> 2010/8/20, Stefano Costa <stefano.costa at okfn.org>:
>> Hi all,
>> yesterday I had a crazy idea about creating a collaborative database of
>> vehicle registration plates. It would be very minimal, containing just
>> the
>> plate number/code and the vehicle maker and model. A versioned data model
>> would enable updating content (and fixing possible errors), there would
>> be
>> an API and all the usual stuff.
>>
>> The use cases for this database would be:
>> - all those in which proprietary vehicle databases are used
>> - study of correlation between average income and cars
>> - study of correlation between air pollution and cars
>> - studying trends in fashion and industry strategies
>>
>> (all these ideas come out from the fact that most plates carry an
>> indication
>> of the province/region/other administrative body)
>>
>> Feedback welcome!
>>
>> Ciao,
>> Stefano
>>
>> --
>> Stefano Costa
>> Coordinator, Working Group on Open Data in Archaeology
>> http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/archaeology
>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
>> http://www.okfn.org · http://opendefinition.org/
>>
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