[OSM-talk] 3rd party API integration

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

I wrote a web-application which can display either Wikipedia articles of 
any language version, which have got geographical coordinates, or 
Wikidata items, which have got coordinates, or Wikimedia Commons 
categories with coordinates, or OSM objects which have got wikidata=, 
wikipedia=, wikimedia_commons=* tags around a location.

The web-application is available via the link:
http://ausleuchtung.ch/geo_wiki/

It is about twenty file lines of code. All heavy lifting is done by the 
Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia APIs, or in one word - MediaWiki API, and 
the Overpass API. Click on the map and the geo-markers with the 
corresponding links will appear on the map around the click. With 
Wikimedia API, i.e. with the Wikimedia Commons categories, it sometimes 
may work after a slight delay, as if the API is "asleep" to save energy, 
but as soon as one starts to use it, after about half a minute it works 
fine.

I am thinking of integrating also search of videos with coordinates 
around the click. However, I am not certain yet with videos.

I use this web-application for planning my surveys to see what is there 
at a certain place, which categories I may improve, what Wikidata items 
I may enrich being on the ground, etc.

Best regards,
Oleksiy

On 17.11.18 17:01, Sebastian Kürten wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> yes indeed such references are not visible on a rendered map, but that
> is true for many kinds of information stored in OSM. As you point out
> this is more interesting for other types of data consumers such as
> mobile apps. Website links are a great example for linked content as
> well. Now that I'm thinking about it, telephone numbers and Wikipedia
> references are of a similar type that can be easily used by app users.
> I'm just looking for more examples to get an idea of what people are
> doing already to connect OSM with other services, especially via APIs.
>
> Thanks,
> Sebastian
>
> On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:49:28 -0500
> John Whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> How would you expect this work?  On a rendered tile I can't see a way
>> but on an offline version such as osmand you can already link to a
>> webpage.
>>
>> Cheerio John
>>
>> Sebastian Kürten wrote on 2018-11-17 10:28 AM:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> is anybody aware of 3rd party APIs that are integrated into the OSM
>>> database? An example for what I mean would be a mapped car park
>>> with an API link added as a tag that offers functionality such as
>>> retrieving the number of available parking spots. Another example
>>> would be uic_ref values on railway=station objects or ref:X values
>>> on highway=bus_stop objects which also allow using 3rd party APIs
>>> using these identifiers. Yet another example I already know about
>>> are Wikidata identifiers that allow queries to the Wikidata Query
>>> Service.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any input on this,
>>> Sebastian
>>>
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