I am looking for either a complete or several partial data feeds of
both city and activity content.  To be more specific concerning city
content, I am looking for restaurants, neighborhoods, golf courses,
things to do, events, images etc.

Activity Data would also be of interest as well and would include the
following.  Note that these following activity content, unlike the
above described, does not need to be attributed to specific
destinations and only needs to be general content about each activity.

Golf
Scuba
Fishing (of all kinds...mountain, river and deep sea)
Snow Skiing 
Snowboarding Water Sports 
And any other outdoor related data that can be found.


National Park data would also be of interest.


I am willing to pay for these data feeds but also have no problem if
some happen to be free.  And again, city content is the priority here.
 
Last but not least the data we are looking for must be able to be used
on our website.

Thank you,
Mike

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Request for Question Clarification by livioflores-ga on 06 Jul 2005 09:05 PDT

Are you asking for an specific location?

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Clarification of Question by mikeymikemike-ga on 06 Jul 2005 10:06 PDT

No, we are looking for as many locations as possible.

Thank you,
Michael

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Clarification of Question by mikeymikemike-ga on 06 Jul 2005 14:06 PDT

To be more specific... and a partial example of what we are looking for:

New York City
Maps
Neighborhoods w/ description/overview
Top Hotels
Top Activities
Top Events/Calendar of Events
Top Sights
Restaurants by Type, Neighborhood, price range, etc. w/description,
data attributes like rating (stars), Price, etc. (like Zagat ratings)

Hi! Thanks for the question.

Please take note that before providing a rating; please ask for
clarification if you will need further assistance in the answers I
have provided below.

It seems that very few local guides and activities websites provide
the ability to be incorporated in other websites or available for
syndication. Here are the ones, I was able to find for city guides and
outdoor categories.

Event Guide (Free)
http://www.feedrollpro.com/syndicate.php?id=124

Economist Cities Guide
http://www.electroniccontent.com/economistcg.cfm 

Area Guides
http://pages.areaguides.com/dynamicwebpages.htm 

Kansas City Infozine (free)
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/1338/

GoRP.com
http://gorp.away.com/gorp/content2.htm

Yellow Brix
http://www.yellowbrix.com/index.nsp?T=Normal&P=Content&F=CAT 

Moreover (Service can provide customized content)
http://w.moreover.com/site/content/current_aware.html 
http://w.moreover.com/site/products/pub/overview.html 

News is Free
http://www.newsisfree.com/syndicate.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/sources/bycat/?where=38 

News 4 Sites
http://www.newsisfree.com/sources/bycat/?where=38

PR News Now: Local Events
http://www.prnewsnow.com/PR%20News%20Releases/Events%20And%20Trade%20Shows/ 

Pitssburgh Events
http://www.pghevents.com/syndication.php 


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Outdoor Events

PR News Now Golf
http://www.prnewsnow.com/PR%20News%20Releases/Sports/Golf/ 

PR News Now Winter Activities
http://www.prnewsnow.com/PR%20News%20Releases/Sports/Winter%20and%20Snow/ 

Outdoor News Wire
http://www.outdoornewswire.com/v/current/htdocs/themes/default/aboutrss.php#syn 

PR News Now Outdoors
http://www.prnewsnow.com/PR%20News%20Releases/Sports/Outdoors/Ocean%20Adventure%20Center%20in%20Vancouver%20Predicts%20Exceptional%20Season%20for%20Sport%20Salmon%20Fishing%20in%20Vancouve

WilderNet
http://www.wildernet.com/marketing/cobranding.cfm 

Get Outdoors
http://syndication.getoutdoors.com/go/home/about 

Central Colorado
http://www.centralcolorado.com/members/

Fishing News Ticker
http://contentmart.com/contentmart/default.asp?catid=174&cattitle=Fishing 

Playak.com Kayak & Canoe Events
http://playak.com/ 

Coaster Fanatics
http://www.coasterfanatics.com/sec_news/news_detail.asp?id=2

Amusement Parks Trade Worlds
http://amusement.tradeworlds.com/section_31_14.html 

Yellow Stone Park
http://www.yellowstonepark.com/news/


Search terms used:
City outdoor golf park events rss feeds syndication

I hope these links would help you in your research. Before rating this
answer, please ask for a clarification if you have a question or if
you would need further information.
                                                          
                              
Regards,                              
Easterangel-ga                              
Google Answers Researcher

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Request for Answer Clarification by mikeymikemike-ga on 06 Jul 2005 16:54 PDT

ALthough some of your news feeds you found are good, it is not what I
am looking for...Like I said our primary goal here is too find city
data that  contains General text copy about as many cities as
possible...Travel Content Licensing - BUt there is a lot of crap out
there that needs no attention.  LOoking for mid to high end content. 
State content will work but again general city descriptions that talks
about activities and things to do within the city is what we request.

THank you,
Michael

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Clarification of Answer by easterangel-ga on 06 Jul 2005 18:36 PDT

Hi again!

Such content are indeed provided on your website as text with
syndication feeds. Anyway here are more travel content providers that
I was able to collect.

Lonely Planet
http://www.lonelyplanet.biz/online_content/wg_features.html

Go City Kids
http://www.gocitykids.com/about/business.jsp

Metro Guide
http://metroguide-inc.com/products_and_services/content_licensing.html

Columbus Guides
http://www.worldtravelguide.net/wtgContent/common/english/aboutus.asp
http://www.cityguide.travel-guides.com/region/nam.asp

Whats On When
http://services.whatsonwhen.com/sisp/static/content.html

World 66
http://www.world66.com/northamerica/unitedstates
http://www.world66.com/about/business_solutions

Insider Travel
http://www.theinsider.com/danvic.htm

Wiki Travel
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/
http://wikitravel.org/en/United_States_of_America

Independent Traveler
http://www.independenttraveler.com/aboutus/index.cfm?ID=4
http://independenttraveler.igougo.com/planning/journalCountry.asp?LocationID=318
(Click on State Name to get City information)


Our next links are travel content providers. You may want to contact
companies like these since they supply and customize such contents
directly to different websites.

Leonardo
http://www.leonardo.com/solutions.asp?bar=2

VRX World Wide
http://www.vrxworldwide.com/


I hope these would be of help to your research.

Thanks!

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Request for Answer Clarification by mikeymikemike-ga on 07 Jul 2005 10:36 PDT

The last two links you provided are more along the lines of what we
are looking for...these two are known by however though...can you dig
into find all the players that provide this type of content?

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Clarification of Answer by easterangel-ga on 07 Jul 2005 11:18 PDT

I was able to find similar content providers. Here is a list of such companies. 

Frommer's (I personally like the content of this site)
http://www.frommers.com/about/license_content.html

Emerging Horizons
http://emerginghorizons.com/
http://emerginghorizons.com/support/syn.php

Road and Travel
http://roadandtravel.com/company/syndication/

iTravel Syndicate
http://www.itravelsyndicate.com/search/content/searchcategory.asp?categoryID=13&B1=Go

IgoUgo
http://www.igougo.com/b2b/info/contentLicensing.asp?flashDetected=true

Air Guide
http://www.airguideonline.com/advcustom_contentlic.htm

I hope this will be of help.

Thanks!