MediaWiki API help
This is an auto-generated MediaWiki API documentation page.
Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
list=geosearch (gs)
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- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: GeoData
- License: WTFPL
Returns pages having coordinates that are located in a certain area.
- gscoord
Coordinate around which to search.
Format: Latitude and longitude separated by pipe (|).
- gspage
Title of page around which to search.
- gsbbox
Bounding box to search in: pipe (|) separated coordinates of top left and bottom right corners.
- gsradius
Search radius in meters.
- The value must be between 10 and 10,000.
- Type: integer
- Default: 500
- gsmaxdim
Restrict search to objects no larger than this, in meters.
- Type: integer
- gslimit
Maximum number of pages to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- gsglobe
Globe to search on. See mw:Extension:GeoData#Glossary for details.
- One of the following values: earth
- Default: earth
- gsnamespace
Namespaces to search.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 420, 421, 828, 829
- To specify all values, use *.
- Default: 0
- gsprop
Which additional coordinate properties to return. (Properties that are always returned: lat, lon, and either primary or secondary as a boolean flag.)
- type
- Type of the object the coordinates point to. See mw:Extension:GeoData#Usage for details.
- name
- Name of the object.
- dim
- Approximate size of the object in meters.
- country
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (e.g. US or RU).
- region
- ISO 3166-2 region code (the part of the ISO 3166-2 code after the dash; e.g. FL or MOS).
- globe
- Which terrestrial body the coordinates are relative to (e.g. moon or pluto). Defaults to Earth. See mw:Extension:GeoData#Glossary for details.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): type, name, dim, country, region, globe
- Default: globe
- gsprimary
Which kind of coordinates to return.
- primary
- The location of the subject of the article. There is at most one primary coordinate per title.
- secondary
- The location of some object that's mentioned in the article. Any number of secondary coordinates can be associated with a title.
- all
- Return both primary and secondary coordinates.
- One of the following values: primary, secondary, all
- Default: primary
- Search around the point with coordinates 37° 47′ 13.1″ N, 122° 23′ 58.84″ W
- api.php?action=query&list=geosearch&gsradius=10000&gscoord=37.786971|-122.399677 [open in sandbox]
- Search in a bounding box
- api.php?action=query&list=geosearch&gsbbox=37.8|-122.3|37.7|-122.4 [open in sandbox]