What you need is a decent reverse geocoding service.
I agree with Tim's objection to automating this task. Also, the local
community[1] needs to be consulted before running a task. I would
suggest reaching out to them before starting any code.
[1]
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Tim Alder <tim(a)alder-digital.de> wrote:
Hello,
I don't believe it's an good idea to add automatically Paris as Category
for an image of the Eiffel Tower. Category should be a deep as possible.
Somebody has to clean-up this add will not be happy. Perhaps better to
have a maintainance category for this.
Perhaps you can use existing images with GPS and Categories to add
categories for new images. (Sound like machine learning.)
If you see a chance to link from Wikipedia/Wikidata to Commons, you
could use coordinates from Wikipedia (something I could provide).
One other option for mayor cities could be to setup populate place from
naturalearthdata:
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/110m-cultural-vectors/110m-popula…
Greetings Tim alias Kolossos
Am 12.07.2016 um 05:25 schrieb Abdeali Kothari:
Hi,
I am a GSoC student making a script using pywikibot to find categories
for Images on commons[0]. One thing I was trying was to use the GPS
coordinateds given by the camera (in EXIF data) to find the location and
add the place's category to it. For example, if I take an image of the
Eiffel Tower it should auto add Category:Paris to it.
For this, I was trying to use the Nominatim service from OSM.
http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org is not meant for bulk finding the
geolocations and limits the query rate at 1 query / minute.
I was wondering whether the OSM api was also available
on
maps.wikimedia.org <http://maps.wikimedia.org/> ? And whether the
Nominatim API is hosted and working ? I wasn't able to find any
documentation about it.
Also, is there any documentation on query limits and so on ?
Regards,
Abdeali JK
References:
[0] -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129611
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