[Wikipedia-l] Geo-tagged pages in wikipedia

[Magnus Manske]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 5:18 PM, John Gill <swfiua at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sure someone will have suggested this before (in fact i'm betting it is
> already implemented in some form) but here goes anyway.
>
> Wikipedia has a lot of great pages about places and many of those pages are
> tagged with the co-ordinates of the pages.
>
> With mobile devices with web  and GPS becoming more and more common it would
> be wonderful if wikipedia had the ability to return pages 'close' to a given
> location.

Well, for the iPhone, there's geopedia:
http://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/97405