| --- |
| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| pretty_name: Audiala Places — Curated Multilingual Travel POIs |
| language: |
| - en |
| - fr |
| - de |
| - es |
| - pt |
| - it |
| - hi |
| - zh |
| - cs |
| - ja |
| - ru |
| tags: |
| - travel |
| - tourism |
| - poi |
| - wikidata |
| - multilingual |
| - geospatial |
| size_categories: |
| - 10K<n<100K |
| configs: |
| - config_name: default |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: audiala-places.csv |
| --- |
| |
| # Audiala Places — Curated Multilingual Travel POIs |
|
|
| 33,148 travel points of interest across 93 countries, each with a Wikidata |
| QID, WGS84 coordinates, names in 11 languages, a type/category slug, fame |
| signals (Wikidata PageRank + sitelink count), and a link to a published |
| travel guide on [audiala.com](https://audiala.com) in each of the 11 |
| languages. |
|
|
| **The curation filter is editorial:** a place is included if and only if |
| Audiala has published a full travel guide for it. This dataset is |
| deliberately **not exhaustive** — it is a quality-bar dataset, not an |
| "every POI in the world" dump. |
|
|
| ## Dataset structure |
|
|
| One row per Wikidata entity. Provided as CSV (flat columns) and GeoJSON |
| (`FeatureCollection` of `Point` features with the same properties). |
|
|
| | Field | Type | Description | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | `wikidata_id` | string | Wikidata QID, primary key | |
| | `name_en` … `name_ru` | string | Name in en, fr, de, es, pt, it, hi, zh, cs, ja, ru (native script; English fallback for the ~0.2 % without a translation) | |
| | `latitude`, `longitude` | float | WGS84 decimal degrees | |
| | `country_iso2` | string | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 | |
| | `country_en` | string | English country name | |
| | `city_en` | string | English city name | |
| | `category` | string | One of 50 type slugs (`castle`, `museum`, `church`, `bridge`, `square`, …), derived from Wikidata `P31/P279*` with name-pattern fallback | |
| | `article_tier` | string | `structured` (rich guide format) or `legacy` | |
| | `wikidata_pagerank` | float | Wikidata PageRank (danker all-wiki run); empty for ~17 % of rows | |
| | `sitelinks` | int | Count of Wikimedia project pages linked to the entity | |
| | `url_en` … `url_ru` | string | Canonical audiala.com guide URL per language (native-script paths for hi/zh/ja/ru) | |
|
|
| ## Intended uses |
|
|
| - Ranking / recommending travel destinations (fame signals included). |
| - Multilingual POI name lookup keyed by Wikidata QID. |
| - Map layers of curated (guide-backed) attractions. |
| - Joining editorial travel content to Wikidata/OSM entities. |
|
|
| ## Limitations |
|
|
| - **Not exhaustive.** Coverage = Audiala's published-guide catalog; skewed |
| toward the US, Western Europe, and India, clustered around ~1,200 cities. |
| Absence means "no guide yet", not "not notable". |
| - **Category is best-effort** (~87 % Wikidata-typed, rest heuristic; |
| `building` and `attraction` are weak classes). |
| - A **small long tail of QID mis-mappings** may remain (188 detectable ones |
| were removed at build time). Reports welcome. |
| - Guide URLs were 99.7 % live (HTTP 200) on a 330-URL random sample at |
| build time; retired pages return 410. |
| - Fame signals are snapshots and drift as Wikidata evolves. |
|
|
| ## License and attribution |
|
|
| Licensed under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Required attribution: **"Data by Audiala — [audiala.com](https://audiala.com)"**. |
|
|
| ## Citation |
|
|
| ``` |
| @misc{audiala-places-2026, |
| title = {Audiala Places: Curated Multilingual Travel POIs}, |
| author = {{Audiala}}, |
| year = {2026}, |
| url = {https://audiala.com}, |
| note = {CC BY 4.0} |
| } |
| ``` |
|
|
