Tag: map

Geospatial search for Wikidata Query Service

Geospatial search is up and running for the Wikidata Query Service! This allows you to search for items with coordinates that are located within a certain radius or within a bounding box. Along side the the map that can be used to display results for the query service this really is a great tool for…

By addshore May 14, 2016 0

Wikidata Map May 2016 (Belarus & Uganda)

This entry is part 5 of 15 in the series Wikidata Map

I originally posted about the Wikidata maps back in early 2015 and have followed up with a few posts since looking at interesting developments. This is another one of those posts covering the changes since the last post, so late 2015, to now, May 2016. The new maps look very similar to the naked eye and…

By addshore May 14, 2016 2

Myanmar coordinates on Wikidata by Lockal & Widar

This entry is part 2 of 15 in the series Wikidata Map

In a recent blog post I showed the amazing apparent effect that Wikimania’s location had on the coordinate location data in Mexico on Wikidata. A comment on the post by Finn Årup Nielsen pointed out a massive increase in data in the Myanmar (Burma). I had previously spotted this increase but chosen not to mention it in the post.…

By addshore November 22, 2015 3

Impact of Wikimania Mexico 2015 on Wikidata

This entry is part 1 of 15 in the series Wikidata Map

Recently Wikidata celebrated its third birthday. For the occasion I ran the map generation script that I have talked about before again to see what had changed in the geo coordinate landscape of Wikidata! I found, well, Mexico blossomed! The image to the left is from June 2015, the right October 2015 and Wikimania was…

By addshore November 21, 2015 4

Wikidata Map – 19 months on

This entry is part 4 of 15 in the series Wikidata Map

The last Wikidata map generation, as last discussed here and as originally created by Denny Vrandečić was on the 7th of November 2013. Recently I have started rewriting the code that generates the maps, stored on github, and boom, a new map! The old code The old version of the wikidata-analysis repo, which generated the maps (along with other…

By addshore June 4, 2015 1

Wikidata map visualizations

This entry is part 3 of 15 in the series Wikidata Map

In 2013 and 2014 I made a few presentations to various groups of people talking about Wikidata. When creating those presentations I used as many graphical representations of the data in Wikidata as possible to try and give people an clearer picture of what is already stored. One of the best visualisations at the time…

By addshore April 10, 2015 4