Area:Geometry

geojson to answer my own question

http://wiki.geojson.org/GeoJSON_draft_version_6#Geometries

is polygons up and running now?

any examples out there?

guess i need converters now

Sorry to interrupt the stream of consciousness flow...

Yes, the Geometry type is GeoJSON. I've requested that the owners of the type provide documentation (and posted a placeholder/my best guess in the discussion topics).

Like Wikipedia articles, the actual contents of the GeoJSON is stored in a separate content store which can be accessed by the 'trans' API (no, I have no idea what 'trans' stands for).

Working backwards from the final result, you have

blob http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/raw/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000806d8ff

which is the same GUID as the corresponding Geometry topic on the MQL side of things:

http://www.freebase.com/edit/topic/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000806d8ff explore view http://www.freebase.com/tools/explore/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000806d8ff

which is linked to from the original Location topic at:

Topic 1937 Oakland Hills Fire http://www.freebase.com/edit/topic/en/1937_oakland_hills_fire

If you have your web browser set up with Google Earth as a viewer for KML files, you can use this URL http://www.freebase.com/api/service/geosearch?location=/en/1937_oakland_hills_fire&format=kml to fetch the shape in a form that you can view in Google Earth. The formatted KML also includes a link back to the original Freebase topic that you can use to navigate in the other direction.

Hope that's enough to get you started. If you add geo info for Ireland, I'd love to hear about it. I used to live in Galway and 3/4 of my ancestry is Irish (Roscommon, Clare, Kerry).