> > What is the current coverage of Who's on First in term of number of > places, types of places, and databases linked?
They claim <https://www.whosonfirst.org/> 26 million place records. I haven't cloned the data repository <https://github.com/whosonfirst-data/whosonfirst-data> to verify (it's huge). There are 27 place types <https://www.whosonfirst.org/docs/placetypes/#placetypes> (code <https://github.com/whosonfirst/whosonfirst-placetypes/tree/master/placetypes> ). There is a long list <https://www.whosonfirst.org/docs/sources/list/> of sources (code <https://github.com/whosonfirst/whosonfirst-sources/tree/master/sources>), but an incomplete list of concordances <https://www.whosonfirst.org/docs/concordances/>. But as a random example, here are the concordances for Montréal. <https://data.whosonfirst.org/101/736/545/101736545.geojson> "wof:concordances":{ "dbp:id":"Montreal", "fb:id":"en.montreal", "fct:id":"03c06bce-8f76-11e1-848f-cfd5bf3ef515", "gn:id":6077243, "gp:id":3534, "loc:id":"n80132975", "nyt:id":"N59179828586486930801", "qs:id":239659, "qs_pg:id":239659, "tgn:id":7013051, "wd:id":"Q340", "wk:page":"Montreal" } I hope this helps! On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 2:25 PM, Nicolas Torzec <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Assuming the precision of those mappings is good, I also think that it > would make sense to import them into Wikidata to increase its coverage of > geographic identifiers (Q36214810) and authority control ID for places > (Q19829908). > > What is the current coverage of Who's on First in term of number of > places, types of places, and databases linked? > > -N. > > > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 11:47 AM, David Barratt <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Once upon a time there was an awesome maps company called Mapzen >> <https://mapzen.com/>. All of their software was open source and all >> their data sets were licensed under a free license. >> >> Sadly they are shutting down <https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/>. >> >> One of their projects was Who's on First <https://www.whosonfirst.org/> which >> is a gazetteer <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazetteer> of places. The >> data is a huge collection >> <https://github.com/whosonfirst-data/whosonfirst-data> of geojson files >> hosted on github. >> >> The place files include a concordance of ids in other systems... >> including Wikidata. :) >> >> Mapzen used the data in Wikidata in their Places API >> <https://mapzen.com/documentation/places/> (source code >> <https://github.com/whosonfirst/whosonfirst-www>) to translate place >> names. >> >> I'm not sure if we would have any interest in using/importing this data >> in Wikidata, but I thought I'd make more people aware of an awesome free >> license data set that needs some help now that Mapzen is going away. >> >> Thanks for everything you do! >> David Barratt >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > >
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