The World's Most Notable Places.
Do you remember the World's Most Notable People Map . On Monday, I decided I'd build a World's Most Notable Places Map , showing locations based on their Wikipedia QRank. I abandoned the project today after discovering the Wikipedia Importance Map . Earlier this month, Wikimedia Enterprise released the Geospatial Wikidata Databset .. This is a large, open dataset that connects geographic features in OpenStreetMap (OSM) with information held in Wikidata, Wikipedia and Wikivoyage. The idea behind the dataset is simple but powerful: OpenStreetMap tells you where things are and provides their geographic shapes, while Wikimedia projects can tell you what they are, why they matter and what is known about them. The dataset does the hard work of linking these sources together, making it easier to query this information without building your own complicated data-processing pipeline. My bright idea was to use the Geospatial Wikidata Dataset to create A Map of the World's Mos...
