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German-Car-Database-SAMPLE.xls
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Note: I am not responsible for any legal issues you may face for using data copied from another website, more exactly https://www.adac.de/infotestrat/autodatenbank/suchergebnis.aspx.
If you care about legality, buy http://www.teoalida.com/cardatabase/the-biggest-car-database/ instead, which is an original product “Made by Teoalida” with no equivalent on internet, as the data is sourced from books.
German car database is RAW DATA as produced by scraping software, this database is NOT optimized for any use. If you want to optimize it you should tell me how do you use database and what changes to make. Production period which is stored as month-year but Excel store it as month-day-2016, this can pose a problem in your use.
Coverage: when I scraped ADAC website first time in late 2015, it was 1990-present, but during 2016 they added models old as 1970s for some makes. Expect in 2017 to have all makes 1970-present.
Description
Teoalida’s Car Database originates in 2003, sourcing data from multiple AutoKatalog books issued yearly and typing data in Excel manually in a data structure invented by me, making an original product with no equivalent on internet, which you can use in your website or mobile app without risking to be sued by anyone. Because AutoKatalog is a printed book, space is limited so it include one row for each model engine, and if it was offered with both manual and automatic transmission, performance data is provided for manual one. This makes my database the perfect choice for auto parts businesses which do not need multiple rows per for each model engine.
However, a small amount of customers, who are interested in performance data, are not happy with my original database, they would like separate row for manual and automatic transmissions.
Since AutoKatalog was discontinued in 2014, I source data from ADAC website to continue maintaining my database, In late 2015 I paid a programmer to make an application that visit each page of ADAC website and scrap/extract the data into Excel, then I manipulate ADAC data to match the format of my car database, to have an original product which I can copyright.
I was NOT intending to sell the ADAC database, but in late 2016 several people told me that my ADAC-scrapped database is more suitable for their projects than my original database, this opened a BIG QUESTION: is LEGAL to sell a database made by using an application to scrap data from ADAC website? Since the ADAC website is not mine…
In my opinion, is illegal. Moreover ADAC database may be not usable for your project, because it does have equipment levels that are making too many rows for same engine and because of the way the production year/month is stored in database (see sample). It needs to be manipulated/corrected to be usable.
So my idea: alter the data structure of ADAC database according your needs, delete duplicate rows for each engine sharing same specs, and sell it as semi-original product. Price will be 400-500 euro for full-specs, to be competitive with my current biggest database which is 448 euro in August 2016 release.
But even after altering data structure, it can be traced that was sourced from ADAC, and I am afraid of lawsuits. See the case of CarListDB.com closed by a lawsuit.
Comparison
| Teoalida’s original car database Demo / sample |
ADAC car database Demo / sample |
| Cover whole Europe, including Rover high-powered variants sold only in UK, 2.0 litres cars sold only in Italy (example Ferrari 208), low-cost cars for Eastern Europe (Fiat Albea, Peugeot 301, Renault Symbol, Lada, Volga, etc) | Cover only cars sold in Germany |
| Shows period of production as year only, based on their appearance in AutoKatalog, which is a bit off (cars launched in november-december may indicate starting year as next year) | Show period of production as year/month in which the car was sold in Germany |
| One row per engine, regardless if it was offered with both manual and automatic transmission | One row per each transmission type, also one row per each equipment level (this can be stripped off, don’t know who would need equipment levels that have same specs) |
| 1 column for fuel efficiency (combined) | 3 columns for fuel efficiency (urban, highway, combined) |
| Few additional columns: bore × stroke, compression ratio, camshaft, track width | Does NOT include bore × stroke, compression ratio, camshaft, track width |