Wonderful, can you tell me if there are any plans to expand the functionality to include other shapes that don't correspond to a geographic border, central point or a box? E.g a user can draw a shape.
Thanks John On 11 May 2016 at 11:08, Magnus Manske <magnusman...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Fantastic! > > Now impatiently waiting for AROUND implementation in wdq2sparql :-) > > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 6:51 PM James Heald <j.he...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > >> Just to add a little bit about those timings: >> >> The number of hits and the query time are pretty similar for items >> within Greater London: >> http://tinyurl.com/z6h7tvn >> (4687 items in 562 ms) >> >> compared to items within 10km of Trafalgar Square: >> http://tinyurl.com/j7jyc27 >> (6616 items in 668 ms) >> >> >> The total number of statues we have is 11884 >> http://tinyurl.com/zuscnnt >> (342 ms) >> >> All of these numbers are quite small, suggesting the performance issue >> isn't necessarily to do with what gets looked up first, but may be >> something else to do with the join. >> >> -- James. >> >> >> On 10/05/2016 18:28, James Heald wrote: >> > Very nice! >> > >> > As a slight tweak on your query, here are some statues within 10km of >> > London's Trafalgar Square >> > http://tinyurl.com/htxqp5t >> > >> > ... or within 10km of Stockholm's Stortorget >> > http://tinyurl.com/jnv5qo3 >> > (Warning: per a recent decision of the Swedish Supreme Court, the latter >> > search may be a copyright violation). >> > >> > Probably quite a lot of items to add on both counts -- has anybody >> > scoured Commons for public art, that may not yet have an article in any >> > Wikipedia? -- but really exciting to be able to produce output like this >> > so easily. >> > >> > One thing I'm a little nervous about is that the first search is taking >> > six and a half seconds to run, compared to 809 ms for every statue >> > within Greater London >> > http://tinyurl.com/hwf7pjg >> > which I would have thought ought to be a similar-sized query. >> > >> > I haven't checked the optimiser output -- is this likely to be because >> > the join has been performed in a different order? Or is there a good >> > reason why the geo-search should be so much slower, even now it has >> > indexing built in ? >> > >> > One other thing for the wishlist -- it would be really nice if the map >> > mouseovers could show thumbnails (and indeed if there was a toggle to >> > allow them for the table output, too). Also, should the Commons links >> > not point to the file information pages, or alternatively to >> > MediaViewer, rather than directly to the images? The latter makes it >> > very hard to see the attribution information (etc) for the images, which >> > could be a licence violation, eg of CC-BY. >> > >> > But overall: wow! Fantastic! >> > >> > All best, >> > >> > James. >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > >
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