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Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/
93•sohkamyung•8h ago

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MajorTakeaway•46m ago
This took too long to make.
refsab•39m ago
Very cool. Obvious in hindsight with every location having coordinates.

Found an abbey around my place in Western Bavaria I didn't know existed

thatwasunusual•39m ago
I love it. It would also be nice to be able to a) enter desired distance, and b) choose the metric system.
kls0e•29m ago
thanks a lot, +1 für b).
ortichic•27m ago
c) select the Wikipedia language. There are some English Wikipedia articles for my region, but my local language Wikipedia has much more
dllu•38m ago
Cool idea! I had lots of fun looking at stuff nearby.

Right now it seems that it simply removes links for stuff without a geotag that's nearby. But many articles are in fact nearby and are simply missing geotags, or perhaps encompass a slightly larger area where only a part of it is close by. Also, all the pictures don't have working links so I can't click on a picture to make it bigger.

noduerme•33m ago
This is super cool! Just punched in my zip code, and hit "random article" three times, and came up with three weird stories I didn't know about the history of places within a few blocks of me in Portland, Oregon. What an awesome idea for travelers!
kubb•33m ago
Is it possible to change the language of Wikipedia? For many places, the local language Wikipedia has more articles.
pastel8739•29m ago
Awesome, I found that possibly the first bookstore cafe was in Palo Alto on Cal Ave! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printers_Inc._Bookstore

It's cool, but a bit sad, to discover establishments that used to exist nearby but don't any longer. It's not easy to do that otherwise.

TonyStr•25m ago
Super cool idea! Would love support for other languages, as English Wikipedia is quite limited where I live.
slymax•16m ago
Wikipedia has a nearby feature that works in other languages as well

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

edwcross•13m ago
Which I never used because it requires permission to see my location, and at home, my ISP gives a location far from where I live anyway. So even if I allowed it, it would be meaningless.

So, unless there is some way to manually enter a town name or ZIP code that I missed, the feature is unusable, which is a shame.

flipbrad•8m ago
There is: the link format is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby#/coord/52.52000...

Change the lat long to any you want, and change "en." to other language codes to search a different (language) encyclopedia.

fsiefken•5m ago
location can be set through browser add-ons or devtools/about:config

https://www.location-guard.com/

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/change-geolocation-...

Trigodil•16m ago
This is so cool, although I would like a feature to filter by subtopic or what the structures are used for (e.g. churches, bridges, museums).
slyall•14m ago
I found out that a closed church I walk past regularly was called "St Chad's"
Elucalidavah•13m ago
Related: OsmAnd has support for wikipedia-sourced points for the local offline maps. Not sure about the details though. Only related thing I found for an explanation is "Geospatial Wikidata Dataset", which is suspiciously fresh.
esperent•11m ago
[delayed]
mvdwoord•9m ago
Vey nicely done! One issue though, not many local articles in english here. I see no obvious way to change language?
timonoko•9m ago
https://wiki-map.com/ considered much better.

Has local language too.

flipbrad•7m ago
Osmand for android also embeds results on the map, as an optional layer.
dyauspitr•7m ago
Very nice! It really should have a field to enter the radius of the search.
ChrisGreenHeur•6m ago
I guess it works but I have no idea what a yard or a mile is.

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/
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