Shapefiles are group of 3 to 10 individual files from the pov of non-gis software. I could see some difficulties uploading them to wikidata/commons since the model we are used to is self contained files
--Tom On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Shilad Sen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry for coming to this conversation late. > > I've been preparing for a public beta release for the WikiBrain project I > have been developing with Brent Hecht and others (http://wikibrainapi.org - > docs not yet finalized). WikiBrain supports a variety of state-of-the-art > algorithmic layers on top of Wikipedia, include spatial relationships, > multi-lingual alignment, and semantic relatedness. > > As part of this process, we've developed a mapping from NaturalEarth to > Wikipedia at both the country and state level. I'd be happy to share it with > you if you're interested. > > -Shilad > > > > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:19 PM, David Cuenca <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Yuri and others, I asked not long ago in Commons and there is no >> opposition as long as it is for supporting visualizations. It would require >> modifying what is allowed in commons, though. There are interesting comments >> on the talk page >> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/How_to_deal_with_open_datasets >> >> Data.wikisource.org could be another option, but it would require more >> effort to set up, and some time for discussions. >> >> Cheers, >> Micru >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> This can already be done by changing JsonConfig configuration. I propose >>> we add a "Data" namespace to the commons. Moreover, with the recent work on >>> Graph extension, I was thinking of storing graphing related data there as >>> well. JsonConfig currently supports php-code-based validation, but adding >>> json-schema validation should not be too difficult. >>> >>> Data:* -- accepts any valid JSON, without additional validation >>> Data:SubNamespace:* -- Custom validated domain-specific data >>> >>> For graphs, we might have shape data as well as statistics data. So we >>> could declare: >>> Data:Graph:* -- accepts JSON that represents entire graph -- vega >>> grammar, >>> and Data:SomethingElse:* for all snippets of graphs that will be pulled >>> in by the vega dynamically. >>> >>> Also, I could fairly easily add support for CSV and TSV if we decide that >>> it is needed, so that Data:Tsv:* pages would be forced to have the same >>> number of columns on each line. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Dario Taraborelli >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> There's a proposal I posted a while ago to store generic datasets that >>>> can be represented in a tabular or JSON format in a dedicated project >>>> namespace with dedicated handlers: >>>> >>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/DataNamespace >>>> >>>> There's some good discussion on the talk page on the differences between >>>> this type of data and structure data hosted on Wikidata and where this >>>> thing >>>> could live (it could live on any Wikimedia wiki, including Commons or >>>> Meta). >>>> It looks like this could be a good fit for shapefiles and I'd love to hear >>>> your thoughts if you have a moment to read this. >>>> >>>> Dario >>>> >>>> On Aug 5, 2014, at 8:43, Paul Houle <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm intensely interested in links to shapefiles from databases such as >>>> Wikidata, DBpedia and Freebase. In particular I'd like to get Natural >>>> Earth hooked up >>>> >>>> http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ >>>> >>>> It's definitely a weakness of current generic databases that they use >>>> the 'point GIS' model that is so popular in the social media world. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Magnus Manske >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> We don't have shapefiles yet, but a lot of property types such as >>>>> geographic coordinates (as in, one per item, ideally...), external >>>>> identifiers (e.g. VIAF), dates, etc. >>>>> >>>>> A (reasonably) simple way to mass-add statements to Wikidata is this >>>>> tool: >>>>> http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/quick_statements.php >>>>> >>>>> A combination of spreadsheet apps, shell commands, and/or a good text >>>>> editor should allow you to convert many CSVs into the tool's input format. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Magnus >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Brylie Christopher Oxley >>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I would like to contribute data to Wikidata that is in the form of CSV >>>>>> files, >>>>>> geospatial shapefiles, etc. >>>>>> >>>>>> Is there currently, or planned, functionality to store general >>>>>> structured data >>>>>> on Wikidata? >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Brylie Christopher Oxley >>>>>> http://gnumedia.org >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Wikidata-l mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Wikidata-l mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Paul Houle >>>> Expert on Freebase, DBpedia, Hadoop and RDF >>>> (607) 539 6254 paul.houle on Skype [email protected] >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikidata-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikidata-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikidata-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Etiamsi omnes, ego non >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> > > > > -- > Shilad W. Sen > Associate Professor > Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science Dept. > Macalester College > [email protected] > http://www.shilad.com > https://www.linkedin.com/in/shilad > 651-696-6273 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
