Why not use Wikidata instead? 15 million items vs. 4.5 million articles (en.wp) means three times the number of things with coordinates. Simple, quick query for radius around X available:
http://wdq.wmflabs.org/api_documentation.html (check "AROUND") Cheers, Magnus On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Matthias Hochgatterer < [email protected]> wrote: > I’m currently looking into the GeoData Extension to make location based > Wikipedia queries. > There are still some open questions - would be nice if sb could provide > guidance. > > - The release status of the extension is still experimental. Is it safe to > use it in production (mobile app)? Are there some hard limit how often I > can query the API? Just thinking when the app gets popular… > > - Is there a way to increase the search radius? E.g. When showing a > continent (Europe) on a map, I would like to display articles for all > countries (sth like `gsmindim` would be useful in this case too). I > couldn’t find a way to do this other than making multiple queries for > different coordinates which does not scale very well. > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- undefined _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
