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)

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[–] basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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 tgat 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"

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

oh, that is really useful! thank you

xD it even has its lemmy community linked

which seems super useful actually, if you just enter your location.