Super cool. I wish I could switch it to my local language. I see that there are a few alternative language wikis available. Unfortunately the English wiki does not have many points of interest outside of quite famous ones. I did not check the others, but I don't expect them to be any better than English for my country.
Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
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Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#72Back in the early days of Android there was a super little app called Wikitude, which was very useful for working out e.g. what stately home that was on a hill in the distance in the Kent countryside.
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#73My 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…
Cool service! You could get rid of prerendering as well as handle clicks client-side if you switched to MapLibre and vector tiles (e.g. tippecanoe). On small zoom levels it doesn't really matter, but I think it would further improve the experience of zooming in.
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#74"interesting" is a huge stretch. I'd estimatte that there's not even 1% of places that are actually interesting there.
In London it's all big roads, schools and tube stations.
Install the Atlas Obscura app on your phone and it comes with a map of actually interesting places around you.
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#75My 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…
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Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#76My 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
What about Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, ...? (If you want language-independence, there's Wikidata.)
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#77My 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…
I like it. What is missing, or I couldn't find, is a "find my location" option.
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#78See 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.
Yep, seeing the same thing.
> No way of manually specifying a location is provided.
... and that's exactly the issue.
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#79Very nice idea but useless in Paris. Dots are grouped too aggressively and don't have captions. Need to ungroup and click on each, gave up after checking 20 metro stations and landmarks I already know. Filters are unreadable and puzzling like "Pages including reco...", just wiki categories apparently. Can filter for metro stations but can't filter them out. It's barely working and have 1k downloads but already shows…
Yeah, it's pretty useless in New Orleans, too. This is just not designed to cope with a place that is so interesting that you can have big stretches with a half-dozen wikinotable locations in every single block.
Well I live in a fairly small city with not a lot nearby, and it's showing me unremarkable nearby high schools
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Awesome! But it should probably include local wikipedias as well, as it's pretty thin outside the US/GB
What about Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, ...? (If you want language-independence, there's Wikidata.)
I think you misunderstood me