What you need is a decent reverse geocoding service.
I agree with Tim's objection to automating this task. Also, the local community[1] needs to be consulted before running a task. I would suggest reaching out to them before starting any code. [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bots/Requests On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Tim Alder <t...@alder-digital.de> wrote: > Hello, > I don't believe it's an good idea to add automatically Paris as Category > for an image of the Eiffel Tower. Category should be a deep as possible. > Somebody has to clean-up this add will not be happy. Perhaps better to > have a maintainance category for this. > > Perhaps you can use existing images with GPS and Categories to add > categories for new images. (Sound like machine learning.) > > If you see a chance to link from Wikipedia/Wikidata to Commons, you > could use coordinates from Wikipedia (something I could provide). > > One other option for mayor cities could be to setup populate place from > naturalearthdata: > http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/110m-cultural-vectors/110m-populated-places/ > > Greetings Tim alias Kolossos > > > > Am 12.07.2016 um 05:25 schrieb Abdeali Kothari: >> 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 <http://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 >> Maps-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Maps-l mailing list > Maps-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l _______________________________________________ Maps-l mailing list Maps-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l
