OsmAnd+ also has this, but it can also pre-download the Wiki articles, so you don't need connectivity.
Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
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Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#32The Android app OsmAnd has a layer to display Wikipedia entries. I like the idea but like a few other people have commented here, some places there can be a lot of clutter from articles I'm not actually interested in. Maybe there could be a way to classify articles into broad categories and show a subset.
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#33I built something like this years ago but I reverse geocoded all addresses in wikipedia and plotted all of the points -- there are a lot of places that are not actually geocoded in the data.
Wikipedia has grown a lot since then!
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#34Love it. One comment: I wish it didn't zoom in when I click a map pin. I prefer the map to stay in the same position.
Yep. Leave the user at the level they chose. Don’t override their decisions.
I want to click around on the pins in focus. I’ll zoom in on the ones I find interesting.
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#35My husband built https://wikimap.wiki which shows every geotagged Wikipedia article on a map at once. It was actually quite complex to do this because of the large number of articles. The UI makes some compromises to try to keep it usable but it's a tough nut to crack with the highly variable density. It also has filtering by category and some features of that nature. The major trick is that the article icons are a l…
This is really cool. The thing that strikes me immediately is all of the shipwrecks.
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#36This has been a feature in the Wikipedia mobile app for some time. It’s a real gem, I’ve found out some really interesting things about landmarks I pass every day.
i tried to find this but couldn't. is this available in the version uploaded to F-Droid?
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#37Love it. One comment: I wish it didn't zoom in when I click a map pin. I prefer the map to stay in the same position.
Yes this is extremely annoying and the main reason I stopped playing with it despite being quite interested.
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#38Thank you! I immediately discovered some stuff about my local surroundings I had no idea about. For those of you who live in the Boulder area, have you ever noticed the pumpjack in the middle of that housing development at the beginning of the Diagonal heading towards Longmont? Well, it is on the National Register of Historic Places! [0]
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#39My husband built https://wikimap.wiki which shows every geotagged Wikipedia article on a map at once. It was actually quite complex to do this because of the large number of articles. The UI makes some compromises to try to keep it usable but it's a tough nut to crack with the highly variable density. It also has filtering by category and some features of that nature. The major trick is that the article icons are a l…
This is impressive. Very cool.
Poking around a bit, I noticed that some of the geotagged articles are from other planets. For example, north of Alaska are a bunch of craters from Mercury. Makes me think that an interesting feature could be choosing which planet to render the map from :)
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#40Really makes me miss "FieldTrip", a now-defunct Niantic app for iOS and Android that got shut off in 2019. It would just give you some interesting history, articles, tidbits or whatever about the place you were standing.