Hoi,
Stas this sounds absolutely wonderful. Magnus has in his software a lot of
use of similar functionality. It is wonderful to see that it is now coming
to Wikidata itself. Magnus is moving away from his WDQ and I think that is
wonderful on many levels. (It makes me feel like a dinosaur because I still
have to learn the rudimentary skills to do what I always do)..
With practical examples like the ones Magnus offers, people really get the
idea why this is such a wonderful thing. Only think of every Wikipedia
article without a picture :) Or all the items that are part of a specific
project..
It will be interesting to see what people come up with.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 3 April 2016 at 08:30, Stas Malyshev <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I would like to present to you a preview of an upcoming Wikidata Query
> Service feature, namely geospatial search - on
> http://geotest.wmflabs.org/. With this, you will be able to search
> things by their geographic coordinates, e.g.:
>
> Objects within 10km of Paris:
> http://tinyurl.com/jaxr3bn
>
> Airports within 100km from Berlin:
> http://tinyurl.com/gtbmqz3
>
> (try also the map view!)
>
> The purpose of the preview is to let people play with it and collect
> feedback on what works, what doesn't and what you'd like to see
> added/changed/removed.
>
> This is a preview implementation, so do not use it for anything beyond
> admiring the marvels of modern technology :) and providing feedback. The
> full release on query.wikidata.org will follow sometime in late
> April-early May, hopefully.
>
> What is implemented?
> - Coordinate storage & indexing as WKT literals
> - Search within radius and within bounding box
> - Support for different globes
>
> What is missing but would be added soon?
> - Distances as search output and as separate function
> - Documentation
> - You tell me
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Stas Malyshev
> [email protected]
>
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