Wikimapia Scraper

Get GeoJSON from Wikimapia

Get started

Windows

py -m venv env
.\env\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python src/geo_scraper.py "Country name"

Unix/macOS

python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python src/geo_scraper.py "Country name"

Docker

docker build -t geoscraper .
docker run -it -e WIKI_SEARCHNAME="Country name" geoscraper

Options

WIKI_SEARCHNAME

"Location name" to search in [starturl] page.

--starturl / WIKI_STARTURL

Wikimapia start url, default to: 'https://wikimapia.org/country/'.

--outdir / WIKI_OUTDIR

Output dir for GeoJSON and log files, default to: 'output'.

Examples

Python:

python src/geo_scraper.py "Rehovot" --starturl "https://wikimapia.org/country/Israel/Hamerkaz/" --outdir "geo-out"

Docker:

# You can replace '$PWD' with your host output dir
docker run -v "$PWD":/app/output -it \
    -e WIKI_SEARCHNAME="Rehovot" \
    -e WIKI_STARTURL="https://wikimapia.org/country/Israel/Hamerkaz/" \
    geoscraper