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

  • the_otterman_empire@lemmy.world
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    Kinda wish I could just give it an address, rather than sharing my phone location data.

    • snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      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.

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        Share the code!

        • snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          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
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    That’s awesome. Bookmarked!

  • M500@lemmy.ml
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    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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      It worked on my iPhone after allowing location services.

  • LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works
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    Neat as heck

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Crazy interesting. Thanks for sharing! Had no idea it existed.

  • tisktisk@monero.town
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    Now wut

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    Whoa, thanks that’s amazing

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