Re: usps data

[Carl Malamud <xxxx@media.org>]

On Aug 14, 2008, at 4:32 PM, Aaron Swartz wrote:

> > what is it you are doing to de-copyright the data, extract the  
> > facts, or
> > whatever it is we're doing to distinguish the public domain data  
> > from the
> > thin veneer of copyright they tried to paint on the disc?   
> > Reorganize the
> > tables and change the file structure?
>
> Yeah, I've written a parser for it and my plan is to just release the
> parsed version. I'm happy to host and have you mirror, but I'm
> probably going to need to buy a bigger disk... (Also, your bandwidth
> is obviously way better.)

let's have me host and we give you credit for doing the deed.  :)   
when you have a tarball, let me know and we'll make a usps.gov  
directory on bulk.resource.org and I'll simply untar whatever you have  
for browsing plus leave a tarball for bulk ... it has http, ftp, and  
rsync interfaces (and bit torrent, though I'm not quite sure how to  
interject new content into that piece and would have to look at it a  
bit).

bandwidth and disk are free for me.  do you need to put a box or two  
at Paul Vixie's operation in Redwood City?  this is not a full-service  
hosting facility or anything, but bandwidth is $0/month if you're  
doing real nonprofit work.  netbsd, paul mockapetris, and a few others  
all have misc. machines back in his warehouse.  he does distro service  
for mozilla, linux, and a bunch of others as well.  let me know if you  
need an intro.   You could put a 2u server with some disk and then  
expand later with a second server ... wouldn't cost very much if you  
go straight freebsd or linux.

Carl