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TIL about the existence of Wikipedia's Nearby page, a list of pages tagged with coordinates nearby where you are (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 5 months ago by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to c/til@lemmy.ca
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[-] ShustOne@lemmy.one 14 points 5 months ago

This is such a fun feature, thank you for sharing!

[-] the_otterman_empire@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Kinda wish I could just give it an address, rather than sharing my phone location data.

[-] snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 months ago

Years ago I made an app that did exactly this as my first attempt at mobile development. It's quite easy to do, as (at least at the time) wikipedia provided a free API and I was able to get another one which got coordinates from an entered address. It's not on the Google play store anymore as I didn't keep it up to date with the development requirements Google has added over the years, but it could easily be recreated by a programmer with interest.

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

Share the code!

[-] snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago

Here it is: https://github.com/pkeg/mobi.thisplace

Almost certainly doesn't work anymore and probably wasn't built well in the first place. It was one of my first projects, haha.

[-] pwnicholson@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

That's awesome. Bookmarked!

[-] M500@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Doesn’t seem to work on iPhone.

update worked in Firefox on iOS. Safari is not asking permission for location and is just denying it. This happened even when I turned off content blockers and manually gave permission for location.

[-] MrEC@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

It worked on my iPhone after allowing location services.

[-] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Neat as heck

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 months ago

Crazy interesting. Thanks for sharing! Had no idea it existed.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Whoa, thanks that's amazing

[-] tisktisk@monero.town 1 points 4 months ago

Now wut

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