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Posted by sohkamyung 12 hours ago

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you(edjefferson.com)
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goodpoint 2 hours ago|
https://wiki-map.com/ is better
MajorTakeaway 4 hours ago||
This took too long to make.
flohofwoe 2 hours ago|
Maybe because Wikipedia has it as a builtin feature ;) (tbf I wasn't aware of that either):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby

ChrisGreenHeur 4 hours ago||
I guess it works but I have no idea what a yard or a mile is.
numpad0 3 hours ago||
A mile is supposed to be (1 / 60 / 360 / Earth.circumferenceOf()), so a 1.5mi radius or 3mi diameter circle is (supposed to be slightly short of) 3/60 or 0.05 degrees on a map.

A yard is just 10% short of a meter, just the same thing for most practical purposes.

(full disclosure: I did look these up)

retsibsi 3 hours ago||
Metric rules and imperial drools, I agree, but I reckon if we put our minds to it we can multiply by 0.9 and 1.6 (or 0.91 and 1.61 if you are genius). Keeps the mind sharp in this age of outsourced thinking!
dyauspitr 4 hours ago||
Very nice! It really should have a field to enter the radius of the search.
ktimespi 2 hours ago||
Coolest shit I've seen here in a while ngl
timonoko 4 hours ago||
https://wiki-map.com/ considered much better.

Has local language too.

flipbrad 4 hours ago|
Osmand for android also embeds results on the map, as an optional layer.
shevy-java 2 hours ago||
It's an interesting idea. Personally I prefer information to not be restricted, but for those who are, for instance, not very mobile, having Wikipedia as a focus nearby, kind of makes sense. I am not sure how useful Wikipedia is, as a lot of information may be missing locally or not be up to date, but given how utter crap Google search is these days, any move towards improvements (including local things) is good. The internet was being ruined by the big corporations ruining the web for many years - it is time to fight back.
tomthe 3 hours ago||
Time to promote my project: https://tomthe.github.io/wiki-importance-map

It shows all Wikipedia articles on a zoomable map. The size of the labels depends on its pagerank score and the pageview statistics.

laruss5 56 minutes ago|
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