Wikidata:WikiProject Wikidata for research/State of the Map 2018

Visual impression from the session, which also got some Twitter comments.

Maps based on Wikidata queries

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Overview

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Wikidata items with a geolocation as per July 2018 (ca. 6 million)

Sample queries

Disasters by location and type

Disasters by location and type

Geolocated topics of scientific articles

SPARQL query for geolocated places that have been indicated as the topic of scientific articles indexed in Wikidata

Places in Germany whose names end in "-ow" or "-itz"

Distribution of names of human settlements ending in -ow or -itz in Germany

Women by number of streets in the Netherlands that have been named after them

Wikidata query for an image grid of women by number of streets in the Netherlands that have been named after them

Street addresses in Italy by entity type

Entities for which Wikidata knows a street address in Italy, color-coded by entity type

Historic places in Canada, zoomed in on the city of Québec

Map of historic places in Canada, zoomed in on the city of Québec

Federated query for ATMs around Munich belonging to a specific interbank network

Federated Wikidata query for ATMs around Munich belonging to the Bankcard-Servicenetz interbank network

Disputed territories

Map of disputed territories - screenshot of Wikidata Query Service as of July 4, 2018

Election results

Primary votes for the 2017 federal elections in Germany by election district (geoshapes), political party (color) and vote share of the winning party (color shade).

Birth places of botanists by era

Birth places of deceased botanists, color-coded by era

Paintings by Johannes Vermeer that depict maps

Wikidata query for paintings by Johannes Vermeer that depict maps

Hierarchical tree graph of territorial entities, with flags and population

Wikidata query for a hierarchical tree graph of territorial entities, with flags and population

Time series

Czech places by first mention in historic record

Czech places by first mention in the historic record

Geolocated Wikidata items between 2014 and 2017

Geolocated Wikidata items between 2014 and 2017

Wikidata items by time and latitude

Wikidata items plotted in 2016 by their latitude (vertical axis) and earliest time point (horizontal axis)

Off Earth

Manually update list

This list is periodically updated by a bot. Manual changes to the list will be removed on the next update!

WDQS | PetScan | TABernacle | Find images | Recent changes | Query: SELECT DISTINCT ?item { ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q8502 ; p:P625 [ psv:P625 [ wikibase:geoLatitude ?lat ; wikibase:geoLongitude ?lon ; wikibase:geoGlobe ?globe ; ] ; ps:P625 ?coord ] FILTER ( ?globe = wd:Q405 ) SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" . ?item rdfs:label ?name } } LIMIT 10

image	label	description	coordinate location
	Mons Agnes	mountain on the Moon	18.66/5.33
	Mons Ardeshir	mountain on the Moon	5.03/121.04
	Mons Argaeus	mountain on the Moon	19.33/29.01
	Mons Esam	mountain on the Moon	14.61/35.71
	Mons Gruithuisen Gamma	mountain on the Moon	36.56/-40.72
	Mons Herodotus	mountain on the Moon	27.5/-52.94
	Mons Moro	mountain on the Moon	-11.84/-19.84
	Montes Agricola	mountain on the Moon	29.06/-54.07
	Montes Archimedes	mountain on the Moon	25.39/-5.25
	Montes Teneriffe	mountains on the Moon	47.89/-13.19

End of automatically generated list.

Wikibase

Places from which Illuminati have sent letters

Screenshot of a Wikibase SPARQL query and results for places from which members of the Illuminati had sent letters contained in the FactGrid database.

Wikibase ecosystem

Wikibase instances indexed in the registry as of April 2018.

Key message

Everything is Connected

Formats

Simple HTML
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Desktop view
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See also

OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia
Wikidata-based queries on Twitter
Georeferencing historical maps
Wikimedia in disaster management and humanitarian aid: an overview
Workshop "Wikidata: A new source for geospatial data" at the Geopython 2019 conference in Basel

About

This page provides the basis for a lightning talk at State of the Map 2018 in Milano, given on Sunday, July 29, 2018, in the Lightning talks 4 session starting at 15:00 local time (UTC+2).