Sounds fun but (for me) not worth clicking past a tracker popup with several hundred default-accept "legitimate interest" trackers with only the option to "object", not "reject" them as is shown for the "partners". Definitely not the sort of site I'm going to share my location with. (Not sure if it asks for location sharing but with a set of trackers like that I expect it does as it will be a significant source of revenue for them.)
Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
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Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#62My 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.
When looking through shipwrecks I found a mexican school https://wikimap.wiki/?base=map&lat=-5630577.9494&lon=2565608...
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#63See 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.
oh, come on ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby#/coord/[lat],[lon]Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#64See 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.
Maybe because op did post the mobile link, try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby instead
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#65My 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's great! And, unlike nearbywiki.org, it correctly places the wiki articles (nearbywiki seems to be off by hundreds of meters for some entries).
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
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Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#67Really neat. Thank you for posting.
Results are polluted for me with public transportation stations. I did not realize each of them had a wiki entry... of course geotagged.
Not sure how much parsing/filtering is done. Looks like the wiki entries for stations use a formated template "Infobox station".
I would vote to exclude those by default.
Also, in the list box, it seems I can only select to include result, not exclude. I would have done that for train stations and alike.
But thanks again!
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#68It's nice, but it does group them too aggressively - the places I care about were full of (2) entries where both actual spots wouldn't even overlap, and the (2), of course, was in the in-between spot where there isn't anything interesting; and if I click on it, then it zooms in, preventing me from seeing the map which was at the scale I'd use to see how to get there.
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#69Excellent!
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#70My 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…
Awesome! But it should probably include local wikipedias as well, as it's pretty thin outside the US/GB