So are their any technical limitations to experiment with both right now?

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Jon Robson <jdlrobson@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm saying there is use cases for both.
>
>  I would expect a site wide nearby feature to help me discover new
> places nearby that I should visit (Wikivoyage even has a 'Go next'
> section which does this)
>
> When I'm in a place, on the page itself I would like to be able to see
> map that helps me explore a city and find places to eat.
>
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> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Max Semenik <msemenik@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> I imagine that if someone's in London they're much more likely to be
>> interested in finding a place to see or to eat at rather than to find a next
>> city for their trip. Unless all their touristic goals consist of putting
>> check marks near city names in a looong list:)
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Jon Robson <jdlrobson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm not sure we'd want to bring in secondary points - I can imagine
>>> the real use of Special:Nearby on Wikivoyage is for travellers who are
>>> looking for places to go to next that are nearby e.g. by train/bus.
>>> Somewhere like London would report Cambridge, Stonehenge or Oxford as
>>> being nearby even though they are 60+ miles apart.. yet currently it
>>> only shows 8 districts in London.
>>>
>>> I imagine something like the in article Nearby pages  that we
>>> currently have in beta would be a better vehicle for secondary
>>> points...
>>>
>>> Is there anyway we can guide a volunteer developer to do this and is
>>> anyone interested? I'd love to see this moved along and give WV the
>>> nearby it deserves.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Max Semenik <msemenik@wikimedia.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Jon Robson <jdlrobson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Actually my question is about further tweaking this... please reread my
>>> >> email.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > D'oh!
>>> >
>>> > So the problem is not in radius but in what to display.
>>> > https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/mobile/cards/784
>>> > discusses how geo search can be made more useful for WV. Our present
>>> > Nearby
>>> > implementation that searches for primary coordinaes only is not helpful
>>> > because the wiki consists of large pages with a lot of POIs around. My
>>> > current work on porting to Elasticsearch would allow a sane spatial
>>> > search
>>> > for secondary coordinates, once it's complete we can experiment with
>>> > adding
>>> > a Wikiversity-specific mode for Nearby. With a lot of points around,
>>> > there
>>> > should be no need to have a continent-sized radius.
>>>
>>>
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