Hi Abdeali. We have a geodata search that you might find useful - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData - it should allow you to find at least some of the information via mediawiki api. Ideally, i hope we will be able to integrate geospatial search into wikidata query service, as that should provide more interesting results.

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 6:25 AM, Abdeali Kothari <abdealikothari@gmail.com> wrote:

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

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