A very nice person pointed me to how you can get the coordinates from the API. For example, if you need them for Paris, you can look at this query:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=coordinates&list=&titles=Paris And in general, just substitute the page title you need for Paris and use the project you need instead of en.wikipedia.org On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 9:33 AM, Dan Andreescu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Nima, > > First, the pagecounts-raw dataset is deprecated. Please switch to the > pageviews or pagecounts-ez datasets as explained on this page: > https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/analytics/ > > Now, if you have a page title, and you'd like to know its coordinates, the > page itself has to be using the coord template in its source, for example: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Biberach_(1800) has > {{coord|48||06|N|9||48|E|display=title}} in its source. > > To see a large-scale index of this kind of data, see > http://www.geonames.org/wikipedia/ > > So right now this is pretty manual, as Richard guessed. But it's possible > and it'll get easier if folks like you make a good case for why it's useful. > > On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 4:40 AM, Nima Dashtban <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> Hope my email finds you well. I need to know how can I access to >> coordinates of specific geographical places within this log: >> >> https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/ >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Nima Dashtban >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> >> >
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