Writing back changes - what's the best way?

[CloCkWeRX]

So, my work is a valuation company. Having accurate suburb information
is important - and if we can find facts like population from open
data, like geonames, or looking it up on wikipedia; that's great!

If geonames doesn't have a population, for instance, what's the
easiest way for us to publish that back?

Our users are unlikely to leave our site, register an account,
confirm, login, search for place, hit the edit link, verify
population, save.

Same problem with finding the wikipedia article and editing that.

What suggestions do you have to make this easy for us to give back
data?

[Israel David]

Is it possible to take a look at your website? I'm looking for the same functionality

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Israel David <idav...@gmail.com> wrote:

Is it possible to take a look at your website? I'm looking for the same functionality

Sadly no, it's a finance industry workflow engine, so we've gotta keep a lot of the individual job details on the down-low.

The best I can point you at is the public site - http://valex.com.au/demo/

Our main uses: Here's a subject property, here are other properties we can use as a comparison point to establish value. All of theses addresses are in Suburbs X, Y, Z; and here's the information we know about said suburbs (population, name, geolocation, etc)

[Israel David]

Thanks Daniel, it looks interesting.
If I get stuck trying to find out my way thru Geonames I'll drop you a line

[Marc Wick]

There is an undocumented web service interface to update and add data.
We are careful with promoting it because the risk of people adding or
changing data without knowing what they are doing seems to be higher
with an API.

Marc