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this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2024
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Today I Learned (TIL)
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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.
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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.