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

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

Maps based on Wikidata queries

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Overview edit

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

Sample queries edit

Disasters by location and type edit

Disasters by location and type
Disasters by location and type

Geolocated topics of scientific articles edit

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

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

Wikidata query for an image grid of 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 edit

Entities for which Wikidata knows a street address in Italy, color-coded 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 edit

Map of 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 edit

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

Disputed territories edit

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

Election results edit

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).
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 edit

Birth places of deceased botanists, color-coded by era
Birth places of deceased botanists, color-coded by era

Paintings by Johannes Vermeer that depict maps edit

Wikidata query for 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 edit

Wikidata query for a 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 edit

Czech places by first mention in historic record edit

Czech places by first mention in the historic record
Czech places by first mention in the historic record

Geolocated Wikidata items between 2014 and 2017 edit

Geolocated Wikidata items between 2014 and 2017
Geolocated Wikidata items between 2014 and 2017

Wikidata items by time and latitude edit

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

Off Earth edit

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 edit

Places from which Illuminati have sent letters edit

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

Wikibase instances indexed in the registry as of April 2018.
Wikibase instances indexed in the registry as of April 2018.

Key message edit

Everything is Connected
Everything is Connected

Formats edit

Simple HTML
Mobile view
Desktop view
PDF

See also edit

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 edit

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).

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