I'm intensely interested in links to shapefiles from databases such as Wikidata, DBpedia and Freebase. In particular I'd like to get Natural Earth hooked up
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ It's definitely a weakness of current generic databases that they use the 'point GIS' model that is so popular in the social media world. On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Magnus Manske <magnusman...@googlemail.com> wrote: > We don't have shapefiles yet, but a lot of property types such as > geographic coordinates (as in, one per item, ideally...), external > identifiers (e.g. VIAF), dates, etc. > > A (reasonably) simple way to mass-add statements to Wikidata is this tool: > http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/quick_statements.php > > A combination of spreadsheet apps, shell commands, and/or a good text > editor should allow you to convert many CSVs into the tool's input format. > > Cheers, > Magnus > > > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Brylie Christopher Oxley < > bry...@gnumedia.org> wrote: > >> I would like to contribute data to Wikidata that is in the form of CSV >> files, >> geospatial shapefiles, etc. >> >> Is there currently, or planned, functionality to store general structured >> data >> on Wikidata? >> -- >> Brylie Christopher Oxley >> http://gnumedia.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > -- Paul Houle Expert on Freebase, DBpedia, Hadoop and RDF (607) 539 6254 paul.houle on Skype ontolo...@gmail.com
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