Version 2.1: zone populations from Qatar's Open Data Portal
Browse filesAdds 156 passages (source qatar_open_data, CC BY 4.0, National Planning Council) and a zones field for 78 places. The 1908 files are unchanged.
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README.md
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## Present-day layer (v2, 6 November 2026)
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Version 2 adds two files that describe each 1908 place **today**, from
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1908 files (`places`, `passages`, `tribes`) are unchanged from version 1 (tag `v1.0`).
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- **212 of 214 places** have a short present-day summary in English and Arabic (v1: 27).
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- **1,
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Wikipedia articles, 278 from Wikidata, 291 from OpenStreetMap
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- **58 places** list landmarks near them today (171 links to 100 Wikidata items: Souq Waqif,
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the Museum of Islamic Art, Al Janoub Stadium, Lusail Stadium...).
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- Every passage carries its own `source`, `license`, `license_url`, `attribution` and `page_url`.
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```
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Main fields of `today_passages`: `passage_id`, `place_id` and `place_ids` (the 1908 places it is
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about), `source` (`wikipedia`, `wikidata` or `
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`page_label`, `page_url`, `license`, `license_url`, `attribution`, `retrieved`, `about_qid`
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(the Wikidata item described), `relation` (`same place`, `nearby` or `location`) and
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`distance_km` for landmarks.
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Main fields of `today_places`: `place_id`, `today_qids`, `today_name_en/ar`, `today_kind_en/ar`,
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`area_en/ar` and `municipality_en/ar` (from OpenStreetMap), `country_en/ar`, `summary_en/ar` with
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`summary_source_en/ar`, `population` (value, year, source), `heritage`, `landmarks` (name, kind,
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distance, coordinates, Wikipedia and Wikidata links, Commons image)
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How it was made: Wikidata items with an English or Arabic article inside Qatar's bounding box were
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matched to the 1908 places by their Wikidata link or by name (`scripts/names.py`), and landmarks by
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not read as today's. No language model wrote any present-day fact. Rebuild steps:
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[docs/present-day.md](https://github.com/DustyYak286/qafal/blob/main/docs/present-day.md).
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Not included:
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## How it was made
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passages are CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikipedia contributors, article in `page_url`); Wikidata passages CC0 1.0;
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OpenStreetMap passages and the `area`/`municipality` fields contain information from
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[OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright), © OpenStreetMap contributors, available
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under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0).
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- Images: each under the licence and author given in its `image` field (Wikimedia Commons).
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Because the present-day layer includes Wikipedia text, the dataset as a whole is released under
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## Present-day layer (v2, 6 November 2026)
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Version 2 adds two files that describe each 1908 place **today**, from four open sources. The
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1908 files (`places`, `passages`, `tribes`) are unchanged from version 1 (tag `v1.0`).
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- **212 of 214 places** have a short present-day summary in English and Arabic (v1: 27).
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- **1,811 present-day passages** for search and citation: 1,086 from 312 English and Arabic
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Wikipedia articles, 278 from Wikidata, 291 from OpenStreetMap, and 156 from Qatar's Open Data
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Portal (v2.1). 209 places can be asked about today.
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- **78 places** carry the numbered zone they lie in today, with the zone's residents and area from
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the National Planning Council's table by zone (2015 figures). The figure is the whole zone's,
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and the passages say so.
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- **58 places** list landmarks near them today (171 links to 100 Wikidata items: Souq Waqif,
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the Museum of Islamic Art, Al Janoub Stadium, Lusail Stadium...).
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- Every passage carries its own `source`, `license`, `license_url`, `attribution` and `page_url`.
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```
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Main fields of `today_passages`: `passage_id`, `place_id` and `place_ids` (the 1908 places it is
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about), `source` (`wikipedia`, `wikidata`, `openstreetmap` or `qatar_open_data`), `lang`, `heading`, `text`,
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`page_label`, `page_url`, `license`, `license_url`, `attribution`, `retrieved`, `about_qid`
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(the Wikidata item described), `relation` (`same place`, `nearby` or `location`) and
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`distance_km` for landmarks.
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Main fields of `today_places`: `place_id`, `today_qids`, `today_name_en/ar`, `today_kind_en/ar`,
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`area_en/ar` and `municipality_en/ar` (from OpenStreetMap), `country_en/ar`, `summary_en/ar` with
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`summary_source_en/ar`, `population` (value, year, source), `heritage`, `landmarks` (name, kind,
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distance, coordinates, Wikipedia and Wikidata links, Commons image), `zones` (number, name,
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residents, year, km²) and `sources`.
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How it was made: Wikidata items with an English or Arabic article inside Qatar's bounding box were
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matched to the 1908 places by their Wikidata link or by name (`scripts/names.py`), and landmarks by
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not read as today's. No language model wrote any present-day fact. Rebuild steps:
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[docs/present-day.md](https://github.com/DustyYak286/qafal/blob/main/docs/present-day.md).
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Not included: the UNESCO site could not be reached from the build machine, and the open data
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portal's heritage table only counts sites by category; two places (Ghubaibah, Jazirat Rubadh) have
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no present-day text.
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## How it was made
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passages are CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikipedia contributors, article in `page_url`); Wikidata passages CC0 1.0;
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OpenStreetMap passages and the `area`/`municipality` fields contain information from
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[OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright), © OpenStreetMap contributors, available
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under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0). Zone rows (`source` `qatar_open_data`, `zones`):
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[Qatar Open Data Portal](https://www.data.gov.qa/explore/dataset/population-area-and-population-density-per-square-kilometers-by-zone/),
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National Planning Council, CC BY 4.0.
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- Images: each under the licence and author given in its `image` field (Wikimedia Commons).
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Because the present-day layer includes Wikipedia text, the dataset as a whole is released under
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