I'm sure someone will have suggested this before (in fact i'm betting it is already implemented in some form) but here goes anyway.
Wikipedia has a lot of great pages about places and many of those pages are tagged with the co-ordinates of the pages.
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.
John
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/Wikiped...
example: http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/wp-world/umkreis.php?la=en&lon=13.733333...
rang= is the range in kilometers set map=1 for a simple 2d scatter plot of the links
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.
-- Ragib
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Daniel Schwen lists@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/Wikiped...
example: http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/wp-world/umkreis.php?la=en&lon=13.733333...
rang= is the range in kilometers set map=1 for a simple 2d scatter plot of the links -- [[en:User:Dschwen]] [[de:Benutzer:Dschwen]] [[commons:User:Dschwen]]
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On Friday 18 July 2008 12:58:42 pm Ragib Hasan wrote:
But doesn't Google do this already? I mean, open up a Google map of
First of all, the toolserver tool came first, looong before Google had WP links, secondly: no, Google doesn't do this already. The toolserver script can return a _list_ of links with distances.
would be wonderful if wikipedia had the ability to return pages 'close' to a given location.
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 5:18 PM, John Gill swfiua@gmail.com wrote:
I'm sure someone will have suggested this before (in fact i'm betting it is already implemented in some form) but here goes anyway.
Wikipedia has a lot of great pages about places and many of those pages are tagged with the co-ordinates of the pages.
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.
Well, for the iPhone, there's geopedia: http://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/97405
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