I completely and entirely support this and would like to be part of the project.
That would push forward the idea of Wikidata as a "spinal gazetteer", a term popularized by Humphrey Southall. I wish there are Mapzen veterans out there who might be interested in joining the effort as well! Cheers Susanna Ånäs 2018-01-23 21:47 GMT+02:00 David Barratt <[email protected]>: > 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 > >
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