Finds OpenStreetMap elements tagged with wikimedia_commons=Category:* (or wikimedia_commons=File:*) where the category (or file) does not exist on Wikimedia Commons.
CommonsChecker4OSM filters a list of OSM elements tagged wtih wikimedia_commons=* against a list of valid Commons categories or files. It is basically an fgrep -f implementation that processes a 5 gigabyte pattern file efficiently using the BBHash minimal perfect hashing library. A Makefile is provided to download and prepare the input files. A Python script main.py is included that may help you to understand the equivalent C++ code, but it loads the entire pattern file into RAM.
If you want to find invalid categories, you should wait until Wikimedia releases a new data dump (usually at the third day of every month) to minimize false positives. You can get notified by subscribing to the RSS feed. If you want to find invalid files, you do not need to wait—the data dump is released every day.
CommonsChecker4OSM has only been tested on Linux. It should work on Windows, but preparing the input files will be annoying. Step-by-step guide:
- Install Osmium Tool
- Clone this repository
- Inside cloned repo, create
dataandoutfolders - Download required files into the
datadirectory:planet.pbf: an Osmium-compatible OpenStreetMap planet
- Choose an output format (see below). Run either
make out/cats.tsv,make out/cats.geojson,make out/files.tsv, ormake out/files.geojson(output filename must be one of these hardcoded strings).
Output contains OSM identifier (node, way, or relation ID) and wikimedia_commons value, separated by a tab. This is the fastest format to produce.
$ make out/cats.tsv
# osmium takes 10min for entire planet
$ cat out/cats.tsv
n/1573735855 Category:Conservatoire_National_de_V%C3%A9hicules_Historiques
n/286133524 Category:ref:sprockhoff No. 465
n/3022117073 Category:Wildwiesenwarte;Category:Views from the Wildwiesenwarte
n/306593910 Category:Prince George pub, Brighton Good pictures Advanced...
n/6426478285 Category:Dorfkirche_Mechow_(Kyritz)?uselang=de
w/297069904 Category:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Gr%C3%BCner_Graben_14_(G%C3%B6rlitz)
w/320276921 Category: Ballyellen Upper Lock
w/474166824 Category:Nages-et-Solorgues#/media/File:Fontaine_Ranquet.jpg
r/12931220 Category:Brandenburger Straße 36;Riedelsberger Weg 2 (Bayreuth)This format can be used to create a challenge on maproulette.org. It might lack a few categories that are present in the TSV format.
$ make out/cats.geojson
# osmium takes 22min for entire planet
$ cat cats.geojson
{"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-2.0835284,53.3600557]},"properties":{"@type":"node","@id":29947059,"wikimedia_commons":"Category:Help Category:Middlewood railway station"}}]}
{"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"LineString","coordinates":[[10.1212064,54.3247979],[10.120334100000001,54.3242942],[10.1192733,54.3236981],[10.1199922,54.3233703],[10.1204628,54.3231298],[10.1209243,54.3228965],[10.1222211,54.3236181],[10.1212064,54.3247979]]},"properties":{"@type":"way","@id":9408975,"wikimedia_commons":"Category:Wilhelmplatz (Kiel)"}}]}CommonsChecker4OSM and BBHash are licensed under the MIT license:
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