If you know what articles there are for a given location, then you can look up the images associated with the articles. e.g.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=images&titl...

You should get some JSON like this:

{ "query": { "pages": { "-1": { "contentmodel": "wikitext", "missing": "", "ns": 6, "pagelanguage": "en", "title": "File:Auguste Rodin - Grubleren 2005-02.jpg" }, "-2": { "contentmodel": "wikitext", "missing": "", "ns": 6, "pagelanguage": "en", "title": "File:Flaming Sword by Matthew Bisanz.JPG" }, "-3": { "contentmodel": "wikitext", "missing": "", "ns": 6, "pagelanguage": "en", "title": "File:JEFraser 2ndDivMemorial.jpg" } } } }

I think you can follow these instructions [1] to figure out the URL from a thumbnail. For example if you are looking for File:Flaming Sword by Matthew Bisanz.JPG, you can calculate the md5 for the filename:

9a06f2a830f1a0b67c50df1e5b5a2a5c

and then use the first character, and then the first two characters to construct a URL like this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flaming_Sword_by_Ma...

You can adjust the pixel size as needed. The big assumption here is that the images are directly relevant to the article...which may be too big a leap, but it might be interesting to try it out.

//Ed

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgHashedUploadDirectory

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:

I had a really cool idea of something to do today but realised that Commons has no geodata. How can we change this? (I'd expect to be able to see nearby photos on http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Nearby)

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