Working on a poor mans reverse geocoder fo vici.org that is based on a geonames dump.

Will be slightly inaccurate since it calculates nearness to Points iso checking if a location is inside a Polyline geometry. Uses much less resources than Nominatim though.

#vici_org #geocoding #geonames #nominatim

Wikidata is great, but not the panacea for linking data. While aligning ancient sites at vici.org with wikidata, some semantic drift had to be accepted.

For example, is FAESULAE (https://vici.org/vici/11034) just the latin name for modern day Fiesole (Q82670), is it an ancient city (which I prefer, but this is not in wikidata) or is it an archaelogical site (Q3019577 - which I eventually selected)?

#wikidata #linkeddata #vici_org #ontology