This worked for me too (from home, once I allowed wikipedia to know my location). Quite a cool feature - I'm sure we can share it with keen photographers :)

On 16 February 2016 at 09:44, Andrew West <andrewcwest@gmail.com> wrote:
On 16 February 2016 at 09:38, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Best tried from a mobile device, rather than at home with an broadband
> connection? Last time I looked I was on the Isle of Grain!! Which I
> wasn't....

Not necessarily.  I just checked using my BT home broadband, and the
top item on the list is the local school, which it gives as 620m away
... which is about correct!  Very useful feature, which highlighted a
couple of local articles I was not aware of.

Andrew
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