acdh-histogis 0.0.5

High level api to interact with [HistoGIS](https://histogis.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/)

acdh-histogis is a python package providing a high level api to interact with [HistoGIS](https://histogis.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/)

Installation

pip install acdh-histogis

Use:

from histogis.histogis import HistoGis as hg

# by geonames (id or URL)

hg().query_by_service_id(id="https://www.geonames.org/2772400/", when='1860-12-12', polygon=False)

# by wikidata (id or URL)

hg().query_by_service_id(id="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41329", when='1860-12-12', polygon=False)

# by GND (id or URL)

hg().query_by_service_id(service="gnd", id="4074255-6", when='1860-12-12', polygon=False)

# returns:

{
'id': 8118,
'wikidata_id': '',
'name': 'Linz (Stadt)',
'alt_name': '',
'source': 'https://histogis.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/api/source/93/?format=json',
'source_name': 'Cisleithania Districts 1880',
'administrative_unit': 'https://histogis.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/api/skosconcepts/135/?format=json',
'adm_name': 'Statutarstadt',
'start_date': '1850-01-01',
'end_date': '1918-10-31',
...
}

Licensing

All code unless otherwise noted is licensed under the terms of the MIT License (MIT). Please refer to the file LICENSE in the root directory of this repository.

History

0.0.5 (2020-03-25)

• some modifications to dump data methods added

• function to create singel JSONL file from single files added

0.0.4 (2019-04-02)

• dump data methods added

0.0.3 (2019-03-26)

• code refactoring

• new methods

• query_by_service_id to fetch data by geonames, gnd and wikidata ID/URL

0.0.2 (2019-03-11)

• fetch_geonames_rdf and query_by_geonames_id methods added

0.0.1 (2019-03-11)

• First version