The zooming is awful. I feel like the map doesn't reload with my zoom so it's really hard to tell where I'm zoomed to except to reference the floating moving grouped points.
Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
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Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
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I'm still unsure what you're getting at. But what I suspect: if there is no local wikipedia version (e.g. the German wiki for Germany), then you possibly can't increase the number of data points, can't you? All depends on there being a Wikipedia in the first place.
I suppose I didn't (and still don't) understand why you singled out US and GB. Here's my take of the topic: 1. Wikipedia editions are not defined by region but by language, and the relationship between regions and languages is many-to-many. English is spoken (as a dominant language) in US/UK/CA/IE/AU/IN/... among others and German is spoken in DE/AT/CH/IT/... among others. 2. English is one of the language editions.…
>why you singled out US and GB
let's take him at his word, "it's thin outside the US and GB." OK, hmmm, how do we get more global coverage? oh, of course, France would be fr.wiki and Germany would be de.wiki, that would really increase global coverage.
now you come in and say "but what about Canada, Australia, etc? there is no nz.wiki et al?" And then you have some ideas about how to do that, ideas which are not strictly "wikipedia" as we see in the headline idea.
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#93Really cool.
OsmAnd+ has a similar functionality which allows you to download the Wikipedia articles for offline consumption for a zone with your maps. This is very interesting when you are on a hike, and can checkout some info about things you see
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
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#95My 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…
Oh no, there goes the rest of my morning ;)
Fun site, give him a high five for me
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#96I'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
Cool stuff! I was thinking of doing the same, do you have a beta version for android too?
Not yet :/ we’re wanting to validate the idea first.
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#97Great concept. Things I'd like to see: 1. Some way of knowing which Wikipedia articles are more interesting than others. All the pins are the same, so I don't know which to click on. 2. Hover to preview the title of a pin, to save me clicking on each, one by one. 3. It would be nice if the map didn't change zoom level when clicking on a pin. It's a very fun site overall, hope you keep working on it.
I agree, some kind of ranking would be helpful (length of Wikipedia article?)
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Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#98My 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
The language picker doesn't just change UI language, it changes which language Wikipedia is displayed.
There isn't really such thing as a "local Wikipedia" but of course coverage for a given country tends to be best on the Wikipedia in the language spoken there.
Not every language is supported (I think processing the fifteen Wikipedia dumps takes several days as is) but I believe the supported languages are the top 15 by number of articles.
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#99My 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 :)
Unfortunately I don't think there's any structured way to determine which planet an article applies to. Broadly speaking, Wikipedia geotagging is inconsistent and the data quality is fairly poor. I think a lot of that is because it's surprisingly difficult to make a viewer like this, so few people have. That makes the data quality issues nonobvious.
Wikidata offers the promise of more structured data, but I know my husband experimented with it and decided not to use it. I think the problem was that mapping Wikidata objects to Wikipedia articles was too difficult (there is a structured way to do this but in practice very few articles have the annotation).
Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 :)
Unfortunately I don't think there's any structured way to determine which planet an article applies to. Broadly speaking, Wikipedia geotagging is inconsistent and the data quality is fairly poor. I think a lot of that is because it's surprisingly difficult to make a viewer like this, so few people have. That makes the data quality issues nonobvious. Wikidata offers the promise of more structured data, but I know my h…
The globe: parameter should give you the information you need: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Coord#globe:G for full documentation on this.