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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 10 months ago by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to c/til@lemmy.ca
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[-] ShustOne@lemmy.one 14 points 10 months ago

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

[-] the_otterman_empire@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

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

[-] snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 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 10 months ago

Share the code!

[-] snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 9 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 10 months ago

That's awesome. Bookmarked!

[-] M500@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 months ago

It worked on my iPhone after allowing location services.

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago

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

[-] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Neat as heck

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Whoa, thanks that's amazing

[-] tisktisk@monero.town 1 points 8 months ago

Now wut

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