Wikipedia is a great way to get information on cities - the Settlement Infobox template that most city articles use encapsulates some really useful information like area (land/water/urban), population and densities. With all that information in a semi-structured format I would love to be able to extract it and visualize them like the amazing ones Jer Thorp has done using the New York Times API and Processing. Wikipedia also has an API - I just haven't been able to figure out whether Infobox data can be extracted using it!
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