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@Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca • 1 year ago

TIL about the existence of Wikipedia's Nearby page, a list of pages tagged with coordinates nearby where you are

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TIL about the existence of Wikipedia's Nearby page, a list of pages tagged with coordinates nearby where you are

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@Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca • 1 year ago
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  • ShustOne
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    14•1 year ago

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

  • @the_otterman_empire@lemmy.world
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    7•1 year ago

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

    • @snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6•1 year 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.

      • setVeryLoud(true);
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        4•1 year ago

        Share the code!

        • @snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          3•1 year 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
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    6•1 year ago

    That’s awesome. Bookmarked!

  • @M500@lemmy.ml
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    1 year 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
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      3•1 year ago

      It worked on my iPhone after allowing location services.

  • circuitfarmer
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    3•1 year ago

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

  • @LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works
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    3•1 year ago

    Neat as heck

  • @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    2•1 year ago

    Whoa, thanks that’s amazing

  • tisktisk
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    1•1 year ago

    Now wut

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