[Marble-devel] Wikipedia Integration in PlaceMarks

[Shashank Singh]

hi everyone ,
                  i am  working on improving wikipedia integration in Marble
, now instead of showing wikipedia articles with respect to name (i.e
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NameOfCity ) ,   my approach is to  rather use
"Latitude Longitude"  of the place to get related articles from the region
using GeoNames API [available as cc by attribution from
http://ws.geonames.org/ ] hence apart from article linked to city itself we
also get links pointing to other wiki pages from city itself [like monuments
etc in 30 km radius , The radius could be speciifed in Geonames API ] , if
any  . i have not committed the code , yet :)
The changes have been made to following files

Modified PlaceMarkInfodialog {.cpp}
Modified TinyWebBrowser {.h|.cpp}
Added JsonParser {.h|.cpp}

I have partially implemented feature "city in Placemark name should be given
priroity" example  if clicked on Tehran , Wiki Article Poiting towards
Tehran Must be the first article on display . The implementation was termed
as partial  because of following fallacies in different approaches i
undertook..

(1)Taking example of Tehran , i added a simple sorting algorithm which
basically sieved parsed data into two categories of features "city and other
features" .. so if QString citySummary had data for city , QString
otherFeaturesSummary had rest of the data ..so contentHtml=citySummary +
otherFeauturesSummary;
this resolved problem for most of the data :) where there was no other city
in 60 km radius (which i have now changed to 30 km in the query ),

(2)now coming to other approach i did apply simple distance sorting on all
the data , i.e sorting all the cities(QString citySummary) according to
their distances and the one one with least distance should be City that was
clicked in placemark .
like Tehran has 3 cities [according to Geonames API/Wiki ]near it with
following distances from the lat lon i passed for tehran
distance 1.39767 "Golestan Palace" [least distance]
distance 1.91003 "Park-e Shahr"
distance 1.91003 "Tehran"

this due to difference in deegre of precision in Wikipedia article [geonames
api] and Marble ,
Marble says tehran to be  at "51.430E, 35.670N"
Wikipedia says it be at "51.423E , 35.6962N"
so my logic basically breaks down :(
[Not to mention this logic wont work for Continent and Conutries]

This raises a very valid point that due to descrepancies in Data present in
Wiki itself , some Monument like "Golestan Palace" return Features as City ,
which causes them to be sieved into citySummary and as they have least
distance due to difference in precision , the article "Golestan Palace"
comes before Tehran when  placemark Tehran is clicked.

any help as to what i can do ?

Regards
Shashank Singh



P.S: on much lighter note I used the word Tehran so many times , thought i
should clear it ;-) .. "i am not from Tehran " :D



-- 
Regards:
Shashank Singh
Google SoC Student
For Marble (KDE-Edu)
Blog :http://techfreaks4u.com/blog
Marble : http://edu.kde.org/marble/
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