A project to create a free, global, crowdsourced, multilingual dataset of geographic regions. Typical usecase is drawing an oriented label at an approximate position and shape.
This is work in progress, pull requests and other input are welcome.
Just draw a geographic region that you know, add a reference to wikidata, and sent your pull request. A basic geojson editor can be found at geojson.io.
The project started with the 10m geography dataset from natural earth. There are currently 1052 features.
The integration of wikidata allows for internationalization in many languages and provides semantic information beyond location. Add a property "wikidata" with value "Q..." to reference a wikidata object.
The license is CC0.
The data is available in GeoJSON. Here is the raw version.
Currently used feature classes (and usage count), derived from natural earth:
geo shapes
- 7 "continent"
- 68 "peninsula"
- 12 "delta"
- 4 "isthmus"
- 295 "island"
- 165 "archipel"
geo climate
- 58 "desert"
- 4 "tundra"
- 3 "wetlands"
landscapes
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222 "mountain_range"
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72 "plateau"
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37 "coast"
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30 "plain"
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6 "valley"
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5 "lowland"
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9 "basin"
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3 "foothills"
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3 "lake"
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3 "gorge"
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2 "depression"
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44 "geoarea"
Only use spaces, 2 spaces for each indentation level. Do not break the geometry value into lines so that the file becomes easier readable.
Stick to this property ordering to avoid unnecessary history cluttering.
- name
- namealt
- featureclass
- scalerank (not sure this is needed, might be removed in a following version)
- region
- subregion
- wikidata
- Africa
- Antarctica
- Asia
- Europe
- North America
- Oceania
- South America
- Seven seas (open ocean)
