td8/castles-falcon

Castles Falcon is a dataset combining the dataset Flightmussy/castles-of-the-world with data from Wikidata. The table castlemap-castles contains the data from castles-of-the-world. The table wikidata contains selected attributes retrieved from the Wikidata dataset. Both Wikidata and castles-of-the-world are CC0 licensed. This dataset is also CC0 licensed.

Files

File	Format	Contents
castles-falcon.gpkg	GeoPackage	8,131 Castles, palaces and fortresses

Fields

The table castlemap-castles is copied from the Flightmussy dataset.

The table wikidata is sourced from Wikidata:

Field	Description
qid	Wikidata item ID (e.g. Q2946) — join key to the whole linked-data web
osm_node_id	OpenStreetMap node ID, if available
osm_relation_id	OpenStreetMap relation ID, if availabale
osm_way_id	OpenStreetMap way ID, if available
website	Official website
threed_model	3D model of the castle
youtube_id	YouTube ID of video featuring the castle
commons_category	Wikimedia Commons category of castle
design_plans	Design plans of the castle on Wikimedia Commons

Uses Cases

Using this dataset, a QA (Quality Assurance) tool has been developed to increase the data quality of castle entries in Wikidata. You can view the tool under the following URL: https://wikidata-castles-qa.tderflinger.workers.dev . If you have used this dataset for other use cases, please let me know.

Provenance

The castlemap-castles table is from the Flightmussy/castles-of-the-world (CC0) v.2.2.0. The data of the wikidata table is from Wikidata (CC0), extract retrieved 8 Sept. 2026.

Releases

• v1.0.0 (2026-10-26) — Initial release of dataset.

Mirrors & Citation

• GitHub: https://github.com/tderflinger/castles-falcon

License

The license of the wikidata table is CC0. For the license of the Flightmussy dataset refer to the Flightmussy repository.