It seemed to work fine with the previous version of "nearby" , in v1 of the app.

On 15 December 2014 at 16:46, Amir E. Aharoni

<amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There's this bug:
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T35704
>
> Basically, the "Nearby" function in the Wikipedia Android app can only work
> if the coordinates template in the Wikipedia in the relevant language uses
> the magic word from the GeoData extension.
>
> And I wonder: Is this really needed? Updating templates in almost 300
> languages doesn't scale well, and Wikidata already supports coordinates. It
> also makes more general sense to me to query a structured database like
> Wikidata instead of poking around with templates and magic words as it is
> done with GeoData.
>
> But that's me, and I might be missing something.
>
> Is Wikidata actually ready for this technically?
> Are coordinates filled for all the relevant items, or is it still better
> supported in Wikipedias?
>
> Thanks.
>
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