Hi,
Assuming the precision of those mappings is good, I also think that it
would make sense to import them into Wikidata to increase its coverage of
geographic identifiers (Q36214810) and authority control ID for places
(Q19829908).
What is the current coverage of Who's on First in term of number of places,
types of places, and databases linked?
-N.
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 11:47 AM, David Barratt <dbarratt(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Once upon a time there was an awesome maps company
called Mapzen
<https://mapzen.com/>. All of their software was open source and all
their data sets were licensed under a free license.
Sadly they are shutting down <https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/>.
One of their projects was Who's on First <https://www.whosonfirst.org/> which
is a gazetteer <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazetteer> of places. The
data is a huge collection
<https://github.com/whosonfirst-data/whosonfirst-data> of geojson files
hosted on github.
The place files include a concordance of ids in other systems... including
Wikidata. :)
Mapzen used the data in Wikidata in their Places API
<https://mapzen.com/documentation/places/> (source code
<https://github.com/whosonfirst/whosonfirst-www>) to translate place
names.
I'm not sure if we would have any interest in using/importing this data in
Wikidata, but I thought I'd make more people aware of an awesome free
license data set that needs some help now that Mapzen is going away.
Thanks for everything you do!
David Barratt
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