On 14/03/12 14:26, toni hernández wrote:
Hi all,
I have beem loooking at the wikipedia database scheme and I haven't found
any field that suggest that some contents are geographical located.
Am I wrong?
If it is possible I would like to download the geographical located
contents of Wikipedia to do something similar to what googleearth does with
the wikipedia layer
Is that possible?
Thanks in advanced.
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Hi Toni,
The geographical locations are stored in the article text, using templates,
and not (yet) available in the main database, although I believe there is
long term work planned to remedy this.
However, there is a project that parses and consolidates all this data
across all wikipedia languages. The simplest way to get this data is to get
a toolserver account, and to access the kolossus database on the Wikipedia
Toolserver. See
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Georeferenzierung/Wikipe…
for more detials.
Regards,
CC'ing Max as this is pretty close to what he's been working on for
us. In short were looking at adding a parser hook to store DB
coordinates in a separate part of the db so that we can query them
much faster through our API.
--tomas