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How it was done – Nigerian postcode data extraction
In: Open Data|Programming
25 Jul 2010In my previous post, I talked about open data and how making the Nigerian postcode data open and more accessible has a wide potential for powering several applications. I’ve received several comments on Facebook with even more examples on how that data could be useful. In this post, I would share how this extraction was [...]
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- Tags: Nigeria, postcodes, python, scraping
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