I've just discovered this new Sophox API. I would to get all cities (place=city) in the Arab World. I assume that it would be much easier to query for this using Wikidata than filtering the global dump. The arab countries have the following Wikidata IDs: Q79 Q262 Q1049 Q796 Q1028 Q851 Q805 Q858 Q1045 Q948 Q878 Q810 Q1016 Q1176995 Q822 Q842 Q817 Q1025 Q846 Q398 Q977 Q970 Is this possible and how would it look like? Thanks in advance. asked 03 Jul '18, 20:14 Nehaj |
Nehaj, updating my reply. Sophox is back up. Here's a sample query, but unfortunately it is very slow - I suspect it needs some federated query optimizations:
answered 05 Jul '18, 07:26 nyuriks |
updated my reply with an example