i see a lot of news about australian politics, news of seattle, darmstadt, brazil, … all places where i don’t live, where the posts aren’t relevant to me. it would be cool to be able to tag posts/communities with a geographical location so i can easily filter which posts are / aren’t probably relevant to me. in one setting in my profile, instead of having to block each community individually (there’s hundreds of them at this point)

      • Baŝto@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        51 minutes ago

        https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3141

        It’s linked on that Wikipedia article. It’s very useful to connect data independent of language. OSM can use it to connect places to more data. I think searxng uses it to generate infoboxes

        It’s enough to automatically extract coordinates and compare that to your location. For an area comparation it is connected to the OSM relation https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4246124 among other things. Getting actual areas is pretty hard due to heterogene data

        Q3141 is actually enough to know what it is

        Each item is allocated a unique persistent identifier called its QID, a positive integer prefixed with the upper-case letter “Q”