I want to get the city /settlement at a specific gps location. meaning the closest one in a given range or at best the closest.
i found some example queries in the wikim
I Found my bug.
here is the working query:
 SELECT DISTINCT *
    WHERE
    {
      ?place wdt:P31/wdt:P279* wd:Q515 .
       # Search by Nearest
  SERVICE wikibase:around { 
    ?place wdt:P625 ?location . 
    bd:serviceParam wikibase:center "Point(8.4024875340491 48.9993762209831)"^^geo:wktLiteral .
    bd:serviceParam wikibase:radius "10" . 
    bd:serviceParam wikibase:distance ?distance .
  }
      SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" }
    } 
Order by  ?distance