dartmoor

Dartmoor camping related map data (UK)

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I’m about to head camping on Dartmoor, and wanted to go prepped with some of the various map related data that I will need. Basically, where to camp, and where not to camp…

Searching around I managed to find this basic set of infomation

And from that went and found some slightly more structured mapping information about the area

The camping locations KML can be downloads and used however you want. For convenience I have re uploaded the current file to this Google Maps map.

The OpenStreetMap data can also be extracted and converts to KML, and uploaded to Google maps, which I have done so for the current versions on this Google Maps map.

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Creating new Wikidata items with OpenRefine and Quickstatements

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Following on from my blog post using OpenRefine for the first time, I continued my journey to fill Wikidata with all of the Tors on Dartmoor.

This post assumes you already have some knowledge of Wikidata, Quickstatements, and have OpenRefine setup.

Note: If you are having problems with the reconciliation service it might be worth giving this mailing list post a read!

Getting some data

I searched around for a while looking at various lists of tors on Dartmoor. Slowly I compiled a list that seemed to be quite complete from a variety of sources into a Google Sheet. This list included some initial names and rough OS Map grid coordinates(P613).

In order to load the data into OpenRefine I exported the sheet as a CSV and dragged it into OpenRefine using the same process as detailed in my previous post.

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Using OpenRefine with Wikidata for the first time

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I have long known about OpenRefine (previously Google Refine) which is a tool for working with data, manipulating and cleaning it. As of version 3.0 (May 2018), OpenRefine included a Wikidata extension, allowing for extra reconciliation and also editing of Wikidata directly (as far as I understand it). You can find some documentation on this topic on Wikidata itself.

This post serves as a summary of my initial experiences with OpenRefine, including some very basic reconciliation from a Wikidata Query Service SPARQL query, and making edits on Wikidata.

In order to follow along you should already know a little about what Wikidata is.

Starting OpenRefine

I tried out OpenRefine in two different setups both of which were easy to set up following the installation docs. The setups were on my actual machine and in a VM. For the VM I also had to use the -i option to make the service listen on a different IP. refine -i 172.23.111.140

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