The limit on radius is there for performance reasons, and in general
increasing it will be pointless in densely populated areas as you will
get no more than 1000 points closest to your coordinates anyway.

On 13.11.2013, 0:05 Luigi wrote:

> Hi All,

> we've been developing a product to access the knowledge in the
> wikipedia in other ways... and of course we make use of the mediawiki api.

> We are using geodata extension to construct a nearby similar to the
> wiki, but I'd like the possibility to retrieve articles beyond the
> 10000 limit radius: this is the case when I drag the map.

> As example, you can zoom out your map at "nations" scale, drag it
> around the globe,  and you'll see other articles which will be
> pinned on the map. I've seen something similar within google maps
> and other mobile app, so I read again the doc
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData

> I figured out this feature should be available from geohack, which
> is already included, by the use of parameter "scale".

> However, I didn't understand how to use it; also geohack is not mentioned in the main doc
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php

> Should I pipe it with a generator? Any example for doing it ?

> Once again, thank you so much for your help to all devs!

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Best regards,
  Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])