Hello all,
I think we should create a property for the items of Wikimapia, they are of additional value to Wikipedia articles as they mark the area of a certain subject instead of only a coordinate.
http://wikimapia.org
Romaine
I just published qLabel, an Open Source jQuery plugin that allows to
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Put differently, it allows for the easy creation of multilingual structured
websites. And it is one more way in which Wikidata data can be used, by
anyone.
Contributors and users are more than welcome!
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Hoi Max,
Is it possible to compare your index with the items in Wikidata. There are
several things that I would like to do
* add all coordinates to Wikidata items
* report on all coordinates where what you know differs from Wikidata
A next obvious question is how can we keep the two data sets in sync..
Thanks,
GerardM
On 2 April 2014 11:39, Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'd like a sanity check on my plans to reduce the GeoData index. I
> plan to:
>
> 1) Not store coordinates from pages outside of content namespaces:
> main and file.
> 2) Not store secondary coordinates that don't specify the coordinate
> name. There is currently a bunch of secondary coordinates that make no
> sense because there's to way to tell them apart or tell what are they
> for.
>
> I hope that these measures will make our database of geographical
> coordinates more useful on average, but please tell me if there's a
> fatal flaw in my plans:)
>
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> Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])
>
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