Cool "Try Again" simulator.
Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
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Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#52There should be an LLM version of this where places that aren't geotagged with lat/lng could also be included; Find a general place name, search for the cooridnates more specifically on the web or find clues like very-nearby places with coordinates attached, and then include those. Might have like orders of magnitude more results? Not sure how often places of interest are actually geotagged on their wiki.
I'm working on a version of this now called ExploreHere | Stories. It's an iOS app where you drive around, and the app generates stories based on what's around you (data pulled from various sources), puts together a single unified story, and reads it aloud to you.
If you / anyone else is interested in beta testing, let me know, I'd love to get some feedback!
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#53I'm working on a driving audio-guide version of this called ExploreHere | Stories (iOS). We pull data together from a variety of sources and generate a story based on your location and read it aloud using high quality audio.
https://explorehere.app
We're in beta, but if anyones interested in testing it out, here's a link to join our testflight beta program! https://testflight.apple.com/join/ExaAqkU8
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#54Hmm, this is strange. I am on Librewolf 122.0. At first things seem to load alright, but when I click on any place on the map it starts bouncing around like crazy to random places in rapid succession, making the app unusable. Then, when I hit refresh, I get a broken page until I Ctrl+Shift+R.
Librewolf is a fairly non-standard browser, but it's actually quite rare for me to have something break, especially catastrophically like this; I have no problems using it as a daily driver for literally anything. So I really wonder what is going on here, as there's no status indicator indicating any of the usual suspects (e.g. no "canvas data access blocked" in the location bar or anything like that.)
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#55My 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…
That is a really cool method I would have never thought of. Did he have a lot of experience with this type of thing?
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#56Is this inspired by https://www.preethamrn.com/posts/when-should-you-give-up ?
Obviously
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#57My 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.
It mistakingly incorporates coordinates from other planets/satelites in our solar system. Seems a large fraction of those point nemo locations are meteorite impacts on nearby satelites.
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#58Is this inspired by https://www.preethamrn.com/posts/when-should-you-give-up ?
No, looks like this has been up for almost two years: https://web.archive.org/web/20220511125450/https://en.nearby...
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#59Oh yeah, I built something very similar back in 2019 (app.mirrorspace.net - now dead). Mine also let users post things that were geotagged, and other users could only see posts they were physically within 50m of. I actually used it quite extensively during a holiday in Italy and Sicily, very interesting to visit supposedly the same exact places where Roman battles were fought and so on
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#60See also this official special page, which lists places nearby: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby
Completely useless for me:
> Wikipedia cannot determine your location. Please try again with a better signal.
I'm on a desktop. Plugged into wired internet. My "signal" is fine.
No way of manually specifying a location is provided.