TIL about the existence of Wikipedia's Nearby page, a list of pages tagged with coordinates nearby where you are
3 years ago by kopper [they/them] to c/til
You can! You just need to construct your URL manually.
For example, let's say you're in Idaho: https://en.wikipedia.org/...
The numbers at the end are latitude and longitude. You can get these numbers from a GPS app, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap. For example, here's that same location on OSM: https://www.openstreetmap.org/... . You can see the coordinates at the end of the URL.
Bit of a hassle, but you could potentially write a script or bookmarklet to make this easier.
Thanks, as you say, that's a lot of hassle and not something a random user would be able to know on their own, so I appreciate the info!
replace LAT and LONG
You can. I
But the facility being wrong is secondary; it's possible.
By the makers of wikipedia:
It's very American that one of the pages nearby me is a well known mass shooting.
I guess you live on the US. Most of America doesn't have this problem
Correct, I only use American for the US because I don't think there's a term like "Mexican" or "Canadian" for the US other than "American". US-ican or United States-ican doesn't quite roll off the tongue.
Does any other country on the continent of North America or South America actually have the word "America" in their name? Do people from countries who don't use the word "America" in their name identify more strongly with the word than people from countries that do use the word "America" in their name? You're in America according to your post history. Who exactly are you sticking up for?
I live in America. I do not live in the US. There are over 30 countries in America.
and when you go anywhere in the entire world and say you're from America they will think you mean the U.S. and when you get to give your little lecture about the technical definition of America they too will find you tiresome and unpleasant.
US is shorter
This is how you can get offline Wikipedia articles for OSM. Great when traveling.
You can, for example, read articles about things you pass in a plane, train, auto, or bike. Without internet.
Do you mind to elaborate?
Because the post is for Wikipedia website, which is online
In OsmAnd you can download map data for use offline. In the same download page for thr map data there's also a download for Wikipedia data.
Download data is per country, so someone just bundled all the articles that have GPS coordinates withing the bounds of each country, and you can download all those articles for offline use in the OsmAnd app.
Thank you very much.
On OsmAnd, go to configure map and enable Wikipedia. All articles with location are visible.
I love OsmAnd so I purchased the OsmAnd+, I highly recommend
I have just been informed you can also see pages nearby other pages with a special URL query (apparently no interface exists for this yet)
...and I thought of a web game you can make with this, if anyone's bored and looking for something to do: https://brain.d.on-t.work/notes/9on0iba4evg40hic
- pick a random page
- find all pages nearby
- make the player guess the random page from the nearby pages
- if they haven't guessed the exact page, compare the coordinates and score based on distance to the correct page
Cool! Its like Geoguessr meets Wikispeedia!
What a cool feature!
yeah same here unfortunately. but then I am currently somewhere I'd consider middle of nowhere
actually there was one plane crash but that's not necessarily an article I'm interested in
Er. Stupid question. How do I actually tell it where I am so this will work? Or does it only work on mobile?
I just posted an answer under a different comment. See https://lemm.ee/comment/8402398
Lots of railway stations, an old church, and literally just a cliff. Yeah that sounds about right, level-of-excitement-round-here-wise!
Not entirely worth the effort but I appreciate the tutorial nontheless :D
Gold Base 9.7km 😵💫
8 schools, an airport, and a hospital. Gripping.
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Shame you can't manually input a location (not only for privacy, but for tourists and visitors who might want to plan ahead)
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