If you know what articles there are for a given location, then you can
look up the images associated with the articles. e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=images&titles=Second_Division_Memorial&prop=info&format=json
You should get some JSON like this:
{
"query": {
"pages": {
"-1": {
"contentmodel": "wikitext",
"missing": "",
"ns": 6,
"pagelanguage": "en",
"title": "File:Auguste Rodin - Grubleren 2005-02.jpg"
},
"-2": {
"contentmodel": "wikitext",
"missing": "",
"ns": 6,
"pagelanguage": "en",
"title": "File:Flaming Sword by Matthew Bisanz.JPG"
},
"-3": {
"contentmodel": "wikitext",
"missing": "",
"ns": 6,
"pagelanguage": "en",
"title": "File:JEFraser 2ndDivMemorial.jpg"
}
}
}
}
I think you can follow these instructions [1] to figure out the URL
from a thumbnail. For example if you are looking for File:Flaming
Sword by Matthew Bisanz.JPG, you can calculate the md5 for the filename:
9a06f2a830f1a0b67c50df1e5b5a2a5c
and then use the first character, and then the first two characters to
construct a URL like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flaming_Sword_by_Matthew_Bisanz.JPG/300px-Flaming_Sword_by_Matthew_Bisanz.JPG
You can adjust the pixel size as needed. The big assumption here is
that the images are directly relevant to the article...which may be
too big a leap, but it might be interesting to try it out.
//Ed
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgHashedUploadDirectory
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I had a really cool idea of something to do today but realised that
> Commons has no geodata. How can we change this? (I'd expect to be able
> to see nearby photos on
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Nearby)
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