This week we shipped a new feature at the request of the mobile apps team, geo integration to full text search.
Quick example usage for bounded geo search:
https://people.wikimedia.org/~ebernhardson/mapsearch.html#San_Francisco|hastemplate:"National_Register_of_Historic_Places_in_California"
Direct search example:
Also implemented a "boost" version which increases the search score of pages within a particular area, rather than the default which limits to a geographic area. Compare:
vs.