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(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Jon Robson
<jdlrobson(a)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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