https://github.com/fmguerreiro/wikipedia-geocoding

Extract geographical locations from wikipedia articles
https://github.com/fmguerreiro/wikipedia-geocoding

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Extract geographical locations from wikipedia articles

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/fmguerreiro/wikipedia-geocoding
• Owner: fmguerreiro
• Created: 2015-10-14T12:15:10.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-12-15T11:08:28.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-11T03:22:38.364Z (14 days ago)
• Language: Python
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• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# wikipediaGeocoding

## Required libraries:

- Beautifulsoup4

- geopy

Given a link to a Wikipedia page, this extracts a list of the names for geographical

locations that you can identify in that page. These names can be any type of geographical

location (e.g. countries, cities, points of interest, etc.). This search is limited to

names that appear in the article text and have an hyperlink.

The names found are matched to an entry in the Geonames database. All

locations are disambiguated, i.e. it is able to tell if the name “Paris”

corresponds to a city in France, or to a city in Togo, or to any other place. 

The Geonames webservice is used.

For example, given the Wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddley_

Walker, you can find the locations:

• Canterbury Cathedral (lat:51.27987, lng:1.08176)

• Kent (lat:51.16667, lng:0.66667)

• Dover (lat:51.13333, lng:1.3)

• Waterford (lat:52.25833, lng:-7.11194)

• Austin (lat:30.26715, lng:-97.74306)