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-populat...
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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