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 ?
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
This week we enabled geo-shapes service (non-production only). Given
Wikidata ID(s), maps service can give you associated geoshapes (as
topojson). Moreover, you can actually give it a Wikidata SPARQL query, and
as long as each ID is unique, it will get geoshapes for each one, and keep
other values as TopoJSON properties.
What this means is that once its in production, you can do this:
http://data.wmflabs.org/wiki/Regional_maps
It's a bunch of maps (using graph extension), that are dynamically
generated by a template! You just give it a country and a few more
optional parameters, and it draws the regions, and can show images from
Commons if you hover over the state capitals (black dots).
Next step - adding some interesting data on top of those maps, like
election results or rates of air pollution. That data will hopefully be
stored in a central repository, together with non-OSM geoshapes (like
historical country outlines, bird migration paths, etc).
Forwarding
Pine
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From: "Guillaume Lederrey" <glederrey(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Jun 21, 2016 12:03
Subject: [discovery] Index management for Maps
To: "Operations Engineers" <ops(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "A public mailing
list about Wikimedia Search and Discovery projects" <
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Cc:
Hello!
I need some feedback from my fellow Ops on how to manage indexes on Maps.
Context:
Maps imports OpenStreetMap data in a Postgresql database. This import
is done with osm2pgsql, which takes care of creating the schema,
populating tables and creating a few indexes.
Some additional indexes are required to support the specific
functionalities of Tilerator. So far, those indexes have been created
manually and have not been tracked.
The enhancements to the schema created by osm2pgsql are minor (a few
index and functions), so we probably need a lightweight solution.
Proposal:
A few idempotent scripts are versionned in osm-bright.tm2source [1].
Those scripts are executed after review by Ops, at the request of the
project. We don't use a full schema migration process, because at this
point there isn't really a need for it on this project.
Does this look reasonable to you? Feedback welcomed, shoot me down if
you have to...
Thanks for your help!
Guillaume
[1] https://github.com/kartotherian/osm-bright.tm2source/tree/master/sql
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Enjoy <mapframe>, <maplink>, or use it directly in JavaScript - maps are
now available on Wikidata & Commons. Don't add it to all templates all at
once, let us enjoy a peaceful weekend without server meltdowns :)
Help page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer
Forwarding for those planning to attend.
Also, grant funding for Wikimedians' travel, lodging and event fees may be
available from WMF and/or Cascadia Wikimedians User Group.
Pine
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Maps folks, I would like to start a discussion on the best way to search in
a map. Daniel Schwen's WikiMiniAtlas has a similar algorithm, but we might
need to expand or rethink it for a more general use case. We have an
Elastic Search cluster, which has some geo-search capability, but that
might not be enough for all of our use cases. Any feedback would be very
helpful.
Please suggest use-cases and comments at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/Search
== GOAL ==
Given a bounding box, get a set of entities with geo coordinates, such that:
Satisfy some arbitrary search request, e.g.
* Search among Wikipedia articles
* Show "everything" (all Wikipedia articles in a given language)
* All Wikipedia articles with some Wikidata category / type / some other
conditions?
Clumping vs spread-out
* Results should not collapse onto each other in one place of the map,
while the rest of the map is empty. They should spread out so that only the
most relevant/important items should are shown for each location of the
map. Yet, if the ranking of the found items in one part of the map are
significantly lower than the other, the result would also look weird.
Imagine searching for the "monuments" within the whole world, and see the
Status of Liberty in New York and some local commemorative plaque in some
tiny village in a low population area. All results should be in the same
"ranking class" - a range of values that do not differ too much from each
other.
== Target Audience ==
* Showing maps in articles for "similar articles"
* Showing maps in Andoid/iPhone apps
* Wikidata info
* Commons pictures