Correct, this api is only designed for article search. I do hope that we will be able to do wikidata queries with geo-coordinates too, in which case you will be able to specify things like "entity is an instance of a city", etc.
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Abdeali Kothari <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Yuri, > > Thanks for the response :) I checked out the GeoData extension and > specifically looked at the API list=geosearch. The data given by geosearch > seems to be just the title of the page where the lat/lon is given. I want > to find the CIty and country given a latitude, longitude. I can't seem to > be able to find any API method to get the country and city of a given > latitude, longitude in Extension:GeoData. > Am I understanding this wrong ? Have I misread/understood something ? > > Regards > Abdeali JK > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Abdeali. We have a geodata search that you might find useful - >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData - it should allow you >> to find at least some of the information via mediawiki api. Ideally, i hope >> we will be able to integrate geospatial search into wikidata query service, >> as that should provide more interesting results. >> >> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 6:25 AM, Abdeali Kothari < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am a GSoC student making a script using pywikibot to find categories >>> for Images on commons[0]. One thing I was trying was to use the GPS >>> coordinateds given by the camera (in EXIF data) to find the location and >>> add the place's category to it. For example, if I take an image of the >>> Eiffel Tower it should auto add Category:Paris to it. >>> >>> For this, I was trying to use the Nominatim service from OSM. >>> http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org is not meant for bulk finding the >>> geolocations and limits the query rate at 1 query / minute. >>> >>> I was wondering whether the OSM api was also available on maps >>> .wikimedia.org ? And whether the Nominatim API is hosted and working ? >>> I wasn't able to find any documentation about it. >>> Also, is there any documentation on query limits and so on ? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Abdeali JK >>> >>> References: >>> [0] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129611 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Maps-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Maps-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Maps-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l > >
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