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!
Luigi
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!
sure, but it is not the feature i mentioned: sorry for not having being clear.
what i want to do is the possibility to adapt the number of articles in relation to the scale of the map. So If i have 500 articles at city scale, I'll have 500 articles at country scale.
I think there should be a workaround, because the scale setting is in some wikiproject http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AWikiProject_Geographical_coordinate...
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Max Semenik maxsem.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
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
Should I pipe it with a generator? Any example for doing it ?
Once again, thank you so much for your help to all devs!
-- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])
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