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
>>>
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