[Wikitech-l] GeoData Extension
I’m currently looking into the GeoData Extension to make location based Wikipedia queries. There are still some open questions - would be nice if sb could provide guidance. - The release status of the extension is still experimental. Is it safe to use it in production (mobile app)? Are there some hard limit how often I can query the API? Just thinking when the app gets popular… - Is there a way to increase the search radius? E.g. When showing a continent (Europe) on a map, I would like to display articles for all countries (sth like `gsmindim` would be useful in this case too). I couldn’t find a way to do this other than making multiple queries for different coordinates which does not scale very well. Thanks ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] GeoData Extension
Why not use Wikidata instead? 15 million items vs. 4.5 million articles (en.wp) means three times the number of things with coordinates. Simple, quick query for radius around X available: http://wdq.wmflabs.org/api_documentation.html (check AROUND) Cheers, Magnus On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Matthias Hochgatterer matthias.hochgatte...@gmail.com wrote: I’m currently looking into the GeoData Extension to make location based Wikipedia queries. There are still some open questions - would be nice if sb could provide guidance. - The release status of the extension is still experimental. Is it safe to use it in production (mobile app)? Are there some hard limit how often I can query the API? Just thinking when the app gets popular… - Is there a way to increase the search radius? E.g. When showing a continent (Europe) on a map, I would like to display articles for all countries (sth like `gsmindim` would be useful in this case too). I couldn’t find a way to do this other than making multiple queries for different coordinates which does not scale very well. Thanks ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- undefined ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] GeoData Extension
Max (CC'd) can help you on this one. --tomasz On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 12:26 AM, Matthias Hochgatterer matthias.hochgatte...@gmail.com wrote: I’m currently looking into the GeoData Extension to make location based Wikipedia queries. There are still some open questions - would be nice if sb could provide guidance. - The release status of the extension is still experimental. Is it safe to use it in production (mobile app)? Are there some hard limit how often I can query the API? Just thinking when the app gets popular… - Is there a way to increase the search radius? E.g. When showing a continent (Europe) on a map, I would like to display articles for all countries (sth like `gsmindim` would be useful in this case too). I couldn’t find a way to do this other than making multiple queries for different coordinates which does not scale very well. Thanks ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
