Etradio1
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-- Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:38, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
GLIMS ID import
editI have imported over 2200 GLIMS ID (P6799). I intersected Wikidata glacier coordinates with GLIMS shape file glacier polygons. I then manually compared the glacier names (including non-English Wikidata labels) between them and added the IDs to Wikidata for high confidence matches. I found a number of recently created Wikidata items that were duplicates of existing items. I merged the duplicates into the originals. If you were making a note of qids of the duplicate newly created items, the items are now redirects. --Bamyers99 (talk) 17:47, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
great! Etradio1 (talk) 16:47, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
Property value combination for P625 and P17 does not make sense for a number of glacier objects created by you
editHi Etradio1, I just noticed that for a number of object that are instance of (P31) glacier (Q35666) the coordinate location (P625) are very strange as they are far from the country (P17) of the same object. Most of them, if not all, seem to have been created by you in May 2019.
- Have a look at this map where you can select layers for the countries Italy (Q38), Russia (Q159), Georgia (Q230), Sweden (Q34), Chile (Q298), Argentina (Q414), United States of America (Q30), Canada (Q16), Switzerland (Q39), Iceland (Q189), Arctic Ocean (Q788) to display the positions per country (P17). Btw, Arctic Ocean (Q788) is not a proper value for property country (P17). Deselect all countries and then select one country at a time to see the strange distribution of dots.
As you haven't provided any sources for these claims, it is impossible to verify if it is the coordinate location (P625) or country (P17) (or maybe both) that are wrong for any of these objects, but both can't be correct for many of the objects.
- (If you get a timeout for the query, test with first half of the countries and second half of the countries)
Please consult your source of information and update the glacier (Q35666) objects where it is needed.
@Bamyers99: for your information, if this is in any way related to the previous post by you.
--Larske (talk) 14:36, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
@Larske: Hi Larske, thanks for bringing this to my attention. I'm perplexed by this as the coordinates dont match the data at all that i pulled from the GLIMS database (Though for the majority they are accurate). I wonder if this is an error with the import feature in how it converts some types of coordinates - have you encountered this elsewhere? Etradio1 (talk) 15:38, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
Canadian glaciers in Russia
editHi Etradio, I noticed that some glacier items from Canada, recently created by you, received coordinates located in Russia: Cassiar Mountains (Q64142902), Rainy Hollow Glacier (Q64144651) and Tumbling Glacier (Q64145228). Not knowing where their coordinated came from, I could not figure how to fix them. For example, Tumbling Glacier (Q64145228) (bad cood.: 51°7'30.000"N, 116°14'12.012"E) is supposedly located on Cumberland Peninsula, located at 66°30'N, 65°0'W. Obviously coordinates were somehow messed up. Please have a look when you have time. Cheers - Lαδδo chat ;) 23:18, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
Hi Etradio1. Finally the property was created. Are you still interested? I think it would be interesting to populate it. --- Jura 11:47, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
@Jura: Hi Jura, yes, still interested - just looking for some time to carve it out. Have you had a chance to start on it? Etradio1 (talk) 15:36, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
Harriman Fiord (Q63982807)
editCan you have a look at Harriman Fiord (Q63982807)? It doesn't make any sense at the moment. Multichill (talk) 20:30, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
@Multichill: I am seeing it as a glacier in Alaska. Are you seeing something different? Etradio1
Glacier import
editHi, A while ago you did an import of glaciers, what were the source for this import? It requires a lot of clean up because of bad coordinates and tons of duplicates to the extent that I'm considering to delete entire parts of it. A source and an external identifier would go a long way. Abbe98 (talk) 09:11, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
@Larske:Can you give me a few examples so i can cross-reference with the GLIMS data where i got it?
- @Etradio1:, two examples would be Lua error in Module:Wd at line 2550: The function "Q64144252" does not exist. and Lua error in Module:Wd at line 2550: The function "Q64144588" does not exist., references and GLIMS IDs would be very valuable. Abbe98 (talk) 06:55, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
@Abbe98: Thanks for the examples. Those two glaciers don't have GLIMS IDs unfortunately, but the coordinates match the locations in the data (they are glaciers on top of the mountains). Could you clarify the issue you are seeing? Thanks. Etradio1
- Some extra examples of apparent errors: these glaciers had continent Antarctica, with coordinates somewhere in Alaska:
- Bagley Icefield (Q63978100) was in Alaska, but at different coordinates
- Rosenlaui Glacier (Q63982808) merged into existing glacier in Switzerland
- --Azertus (talk) 19:07, 4 July 2021 (UTC)