De-duplicating Who’s On First venues with vector embeddings

Using four different Who’s On First venue repositories for testing, I have been able to first deprecate about 45,000 duplicate records and then, second, derive over 100,000 concordances with Overture Data place records, 8,000 concordances with All The Places venues and another 500 concordances with ILMS museum records. There are almost certainly still bugs, or at least “gotchas”, but importantly the work so far passes the “better than yesterday” test.

This is a blog post by thisisaaronland. It was published on August 16, 2024 and tagged venues, download, whosonfirst, wof, data, overture and alltheplaces.

Who’s On First shapefile downloads in QGIS and on HDX

Shapefiles are the resurgent vinyl music format for digital mapping

This is a blog post by nvkelso. It was published on July 18, 2024 and tagged shapefile, download, whosonfirst, wof and data.

Making Who’s On First more accessible

Shapefiles improve accessibility to the Who’s On First gazetteer for GIS users for a core set of standard place response properties, and discussion of making simple edits, bulk imports, and knowledge sharing in our community.

This is a blog post by nvkelso. It was published on May 31, 2023 and tagged shapefile, download, whosonfirst, wof and data.