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TIL about the existence of Wikipedia's Nearby page, a list of pages tagged with coordinates nearby where you are (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 10 months ago by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to c/til@lemmy.ca

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[–] the_otterman_empire@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Share the code!

[–] snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 9 months 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.