This is super cool! Just punched in my zip code, and hit "random article" three times, and came up with three weird stories I didn't know about the history of places within a few blocks of me in Portland, Oregon. What an awesome idea for travelers!
It's cool, but a bit sad, to discover establishments that used to exist nearby but don't any longer. It's not easy to do that otherwise.
mvdwoord 11 minutes ago [-]
Vey nicely done! One issue though, not many local articles in english here. I see no obvious way to change language?
esperent 13 minutes ago [-]
This is a great idea but I'd definitely make the distance configurable. Where I am right now would need several hours walking to reach anywhere Wikipedia worthy but if I expanded to say a 15km circle there's probably a couple of places of interest.
Meanwhile if someone lives in a city they'll get loads of results.
EDIT: actually this is just a wrapper around wikipedia's nearby feature I think. I tried a couple of places and they give identical results.
Super cool idea! Would love support for other languages, as English Wikipedia is quite limited where I live.
kubb 34 minutes ago [-]
Is it possible to change the language of Wikipedia? For many places, the local language Wikipedia has more articles.
Elucalidavah 14 minutes ago [-]
Related: OsmAnd has support for wikipedia-sourced points for the local offline maps. Not sure about the details though. Only related thing I found for an explanation is "Geospatial Wikidata Dataset", which is suspiciously fresh.
slyall 16 minutes ago [-]
I found out that a closed church I walk past regularly was called "St Chad's"
ChrisGreenHeur 8 minutes ago [-]
I guess it works but I have no idea what a yard or a mile is.
slymax 18 minutes ago [-]
Wikipedia has a nearby feature that works in other languages as well
Which I never used because it requires permission to see my location, and at home, my ISP gives a location far from where I live anyway. So even if I allowed it, it would be meaningless.
So, unless there is some way to manually enter a town name or ZIP code that I missed, the feature is unusable, which is a shame.
This is so cool, although I would like a feature to filter by subtopic or what the structures are used for (e.g. churches, bridges, museums).
dllu 40 minutes ago [-]
Cool idea! I had lots of fun looking at stuff nearby.
Right now it seems that it simply removes links for stuff without a geotag that's nearby. But many articles are in fact nearby and are simply missing geotags, or perhaps encompass a slightly larger area where only a part of it is close by. Also, all the pictures don't have working links so I can't click on a picture to make it bigger.
refsab 41 minutes ago [-]
Very cool. Obvious in hindsight with every location having coordinates.
Found an abbey around my place in Western Bavaria I didn't know existed
dyauspitr 9 minutes ago [-]
Very nice! It really should have a field to enter the radius of the search.
thatwasunusual 41 minutes ago [-]
I love it. It would also be nice to be able to a) enter desired distance, and b) choose the metric system.
ortichic 29 minutes ago [-]
c) select the Wikipedia language. There are some English Wikipedia articles for my region, but my local language Wikipedia has much more
It's cool, but a bit sad, to discover establishments that used to exist nearby but don't any longer. It's not easy to do that otherwise.
Meanwhile if someone lives in a city they'll get loads of results.
EDIT: actually this is just a wrapper around wikipedia's nearby feature I think. I tried a couple of places and they give identical results.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby#/coord/15.90721...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby
So, unless there is some way to manually enter a town name or ZIP code that I missed, the feature is unusable, which is a shame.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby#/coord/52.52000...
Change the lat long to any you want, and change "en." to other language codes to search a different (language) encyclopedia.
https://www.location-guard.com/
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/change-geolocation-...
Right now it seems that it simply removes links for stuff without a geotag that's nearby. But many articles are in fact nearby and are simply missing geotags, or perhaps encompass a slightly larger area where only a part of it is close by. Also, all the pictures don't have working links so I can't click on a picture to make it bigger.
Found an abbey around my place in Western Bavaria I didn't know existed
Has local language too.