Re: [Wikidata] Geospatial search for Wikidata Query Service is up

2016-05-23 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! > Very nice! From where is the map-data? Open street map? Yes, see: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps -- Stas Malyshev smalys...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikidata] Geospatial search for Wikidata Query Service is up

2016-05-11 Thread john cummings
Wonderful, can you tell me if there are any plans to expand the functionality to include other shapes that don't correspond to a geographic border, central point or a box? E.g a user can draw a shape. Thanks John On 11 May 2016 at 11:08, Magnus Manske wrote: >

Re: [Wikidata] Geospatial search for Wikidata Query Service is up

2016-05-10 Thread James Heald
Just to add a little bit about those timings: The number of hits and the query time are pretty similar for items within Greater London: http://tinyurl.com/z6h7tvn (4687 items in 562 ms) compared to items within 10km of Trafalgar Square: http://tinyurl.com/j7jyc27 (6616 items in 668

Re: [Wikidata] Geospatial search for Wikidata Query Service is up

2016-05-10 Thread James Heald
Very nice! As a slight tweak on your query, here are some statues within 10km of London's Trafalgar Square http://tinyurl.com/htxqp5t ... or within 10km of Stockholm's Stortorget http://tinyurl.com/jnv5qo3 (Warning: per a recent decision of the Swedish Supreme Court, the latter search may be

Re: [Wikidata] Geospatial search for Wikidata Query Service is up

2016-05-10 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! > Are the distances available somehow? I.e., the distances between the > wikibase:center and the searched locations? There is a distance function - see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_query_service/User_Manual#Distance_function - and there also soon will be a way to retrieve

Re: [Wikidata] Geospatial search for Wikidata Query Service is up

2016-05-10 Thread Finn Årup Nielsen
Are the distances available somehow? I.e., the distances between the wikibase:center and the searched locations? There has been some attempts (by James Heald?) on approximating the distances: http://tinyurl.com/otsp7cc best regards Finn On 05/09/2016 10:23 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote: Hi!

[Wikidata] Geospatial search for Wikidata Query Service is up

2016-05-09 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! After a number of difficulties and unexpected setbacks[1] I am happy to announce that geospatial search for Wikidata Query Service is now deployed and functional. You can now search for items within certain radius of a point and within a box defined by two points - more detailed instructions