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This is impressive. Very cool. Poking around a bit, I noticed that some of the geotagged articles are from other planets. For example, north of Alaska are a bu
by tfvlrue 3y ago
This is impressive. Very cool.
Poking around a bit, I noticed that some of the geotagged articles are from other planets. For example, north of Alaska are a bunch of craters from Mercury. Makes me think that an interesting feature could be choosing which planet to render the map from :)
- jcrawfordor 3y agoUnfortunately I don't think there's any structured way to determine which planet an article applies to. Broadly speaking, Wikipedia geotagging is inconsistent and the data quality is fairly poor. I think a lot of that is because it's surprisingly difficult to make a viewer like this, so few people have. That makes the data quality issues nonobvious. Wikidata offers the promise of more structured data, but I know my husband experimented with it and decided not to use it. I think the problem was that mapping Wikidata objects to Wikipedia articles was too difficult (there is a structured way to do this but in practice very few articles have the annotation).
- lambdaone 3y agoThe globe: parameter should give you the information you need: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Coord#globe:G https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Coord#globe:G for full documentation on this.