Geohunt, version 1 January 23, 2010 stephen@thjnk.com
Geohunt generates a list of Wikipedia articles that need photographs.
== Why? == I wanted to make it easy to find things to photograph, and I figured that geotags are a good place to start. There are certainly non-geotagged articles that also need photographs:
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requested_photos
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photo_scavenger_hunts
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_The_City
- http://toolserver.org/~contests/startahunt.php
== To do ==
- Search result limit
- Manual input of WGS84 lat/long (currently spherical mercator)
- More percise search range (currently +/- lat long calculated by zoom level)
- Format result page for printing
- Query DBpedia in languages other than EN
- Cache generated lists, with static maps?
- Better navigation on search map--text search for place?
- Reverse geo look up street addresses for results?
== External sites ==
=== Maps === All the maps are generated by OpenLayer from Open Street Maps.
=== DBpedia === This script relies on information from DBpedia 3.6, based on Wikipedia dumps from October/November 2010. DBpedia is a great way to query Wikipedia for structured information. Geohunt communicates with DBpedia through the SPARQL endpoint.
== License == All code written by Stephen LaPorte is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.