Why not use Wikidata instead? 15 million items vs. 4.5 million articles (en.wp) means three times the number of things with coordinates. Simple, quick query for radius around X available:

http://wdq.wmflabs.org/api_documentation.html

(check "AROUND")

Cheers, Magnus

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Matthias Hochgatterer < matthias.hochgatterer@gmail.com> wrote:

I’m currently looking into the GeoData Extension to make location based Wikipedia queries. There are still some open questions - would be nice if sb could provide guidance.

• The release status of the extension is still experimental. Is it safe to

use it in production (mobile app)? Are there some hard limit how often I can query the API? Just thinking when the app gets popular…

• Is there a way to increase the search radius? E.g. When showing a

continent (Europe) on a map, I would like to display articles for all countries (sth like `gsmindim` would be useful in this case too). I couldn’t find a way to do this other than making multiple queries for different coordinates which does not scale very well.

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