<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">I would like here for data:<br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><a href="https://simplegeo.com/products/context/#11.00/41.8639/-87.6091">https://simplegeo.com/products/context/#11.00/41.8639/-87.6091</a><br><br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">or<br><br><a href="http://www.factual.com/">http://www.factual.com</a><br><br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">And use their API's to get the data you need.</font></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">-Don<br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">--</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Don Drake</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><a href="http://www.drakeconsulting.com">www.drakeconsulting.com</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><a href="http://www.maillaunder.com">www.maillaunder.com</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">312-560-1574</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">800-733-2143</font></div></span></span>
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<br><div><div>On Sep 21, 2011, at 7:28 PM, Richard Reina wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I am hoping to create a US geography database comprised of information about US towns and cities. I was able to get the populations of all incorporated towns from a US census file into a table. However, I am hoping to create a table with facts or (trivia) about the towns themselves (large and small) -- when they were founded, what they're known for (if anything). Writing a perl program that uses regex to search the web is probably beyond my skills. However, I am wondering if such a thing is possible and if so how hard or easy it is? I looked on CPAN but confess I really am not sure if I would recognise what I need if I saw it. Any ideas on how or IF this can be done would be greatly appreciated.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Richard<br>-- <br>Richard Reina<br>Rush Logistics, Inc.<br>Watch our 3 minute movie: <br><a href="http://www.rushlogistics.com/movie">http://www.rushlogistics.com/movie</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Chicago-talk mailing list<br>Chicago-talk@pm.org<br>http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago-talk<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>