Geo-tagged pages in wikipedia

[John Gill-4]

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
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[Daniel Schwen-2]

> 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/Wikipedia-World/en

example:
http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/wp-world/umkreis.php?la=en&lon=13.7333333333333&lat=51.0333333333333&rang=10&map=0

rang= is the range in kilometers
set map=1 for a simple 2d scatter plot of the links
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[Ragib Hasan]

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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On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Daniel Schwen <lists@...> 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/Wikipedia-World/en
>
> example:
> http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/wp-world/umkreis.php?la=en&lon=13.7333333333333&lat=51.0333333333333&rang=10&map=0
>
> rang= is the range in kilometers
> set map=1 for a simple 2d scatter plot of the links
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> [[en:User:Dschwen]]
> [[de:Benutzer:Dschwen]]
> [[commons:User:Dschwen]]
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[Daniel Schwen-2]

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.
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[Magnus Manske-2]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 5:18 PM, John Gill <swfiua@...> 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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