Max, is there a bug/story card to track our work on this?
--tomasz
On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Monte Hurd <mhurd@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> I spent a while today trying to figure out why the app's Nearby didn't seem
> to be very accurately determining the angle between the device and the
> article's geo coords.
>
> Angles seemed to be off by strange amounts depending on how close I was to
> an article's supposed location.
>
> I believe I found the problem. Run the query below and you'll see the result
> for Wikimedia Foundation:
>
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&colimit=1&format=jsonfm&generator=geosearch&ggscoord=37.786816%7C-122.399254&ggslimit=1&ggsradius=10000&pilimit=1&pithumbsize=144&prop=coordinates%7Cpageimages%7Cpageterms&wbptterms=description
>
> The API result says the foundation's coordinates are:
> 37.787, -122.4
>
> But if you look at the article on desktop it says the Foundation's
> coordinate are:
> 37.78697, -122.399677
>
> You can see what's happening.
>
> Can we make the API not degrade the coordinates? Super quick fix? (Or is
> there some extra parameter I should be using?)
>
>
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