TIL about the existence of Wikipedia's Nearby page, a list of pages tagged with coordinates nearby where you are
TIL about the existence of Wikipedia's Nearby page, a list of pages tagged with coordinates nearby where you are
This is such a fun feature, thank you for sharing!
14Kinda wish I could just give it an address, rather than sharing my phone location data.
7Years 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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That's awesome. Bookmarked!
6Doesn’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.
5It worked on my iPhone after allowing location services.
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Neat as heck
3Crazy interesting. Thanks for sharing! Had no idea it existed.
3Whoa, thanks that's amazing
2Now wut
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