Wikidata is a Giant Crosswalk File. Drew Breunig shows how to take the 140GB Wikidata JSON export, use sed 's/,$//'
to convert it to newline-delimited JSON, then use DuckDB to run queries and extract external identifiers, including a query that pulls out 500MB of latitude and longitude points.
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