I'm enjoying the "nearby" feature now that its been restored to the Android app; and especially looking forward to using it on an upcoming overseas trip.
However, I don't seem to be able too use it, while at home, to look at other parts of the world. Is that possible?
It could either be by scrolling or typing in the name of a far-flung place, or by tapping on the coordinates in a geo-tagged article.
Hi Andy,
Glad to hear you're enjoying the feature! It is indeed possible to look at nearby articles in other parts of the world, but the only way to do it at the moment is to zoom out (by pinching), scroll to the desired location, and zoom back in.
I agree that this can be further refined. I'm afraid that enhancements to the Nearby function aren't in our plans for this quarter, but we may revisit it in the next quarter, or perhaps at an upcoming hackathon. :)
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
I'm enjoying the "nearby" feature now that its been restored to the Android app; and especially looking forward to using it on an upcoming overseas trip.
However, I don't seem to be able too use it, while at home, to look at other parts of the world. Is that possible?
It could either be by scrolling or typing in the name of a far-flung place, or by tapping on the coordinates in a geo-tagged article.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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Nearby is far the best and most exciting feature of the app!
It should be improved! ;-)
*~Orsolya*
2016-02-01 19:36 GMT+01:00 Dmitry Brant dbrant@wikimedia.org:
Hi Andy,
Glad to hear you're enjoying the feature! It is indeed possible to look at nearby articles in other parts of the world, but the only way to do it at the moment is to zoom out (by pinching), scroll to the desired location, and zoom back in.
I agree that this can be further refined. I'm afraid that enhancements to the Nearby function aren't in our plans for this quarter, but we may revisit it in the next quarter, or perhaps at an upcoming hackathon. :)
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
I'm enjoying the "nearby" feature now that its been restored to the Android app; and especially looking forward to using it on an upcoming overseas trip.
However, I don't seem to be able too use it, while at home, to look at other parts of the world. Is that possible?
It could either be by scrolling or typing in the name of a far-flung place, or by tapping on the coordinates in a geo-tagged article.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
-- Dmitry Brant Mobile Apps Team (Android) Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering
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