But doesn't Google do this already? I mean, open up a Google map of
your current location, and then enable the wikipedia layer (by
clicking on the more button). The WP articles with geo-tags, that are
located in your viewing map area, will show up.
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Ragib
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Daniel Schwen <lists(a)schwen.de> wrote:
With mobile
devices with web and GPS becoming more and more common it
would be wonderful if wikipedia had the ability to return pages 'close' to
a given location.
Such an application does already exist (but might need to be adapted for
mobile devices), made by [[:de:User:Kolossos]]
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Georeferenzierung/Wikipe…
example:
http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/wp-world/umkreis.php?la=en&lon=13.73333…
rang= is the range in kilometers
set map=1 for a simple 2d scatter plot of the links
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