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delichon 2 days ago [-]
The nearest Wikipedia entry to me is about a 3 hours 15 minute walk away, the nearest town. But there are so many interesting things closer, perhaps I should add them to the wiki. Twenty minutes to the north there's a pleasant shady area at the bottom of a canyon with a fallen log with a curve that fits my buttocks nicely. Fifteen minutes to the southeast there is a dead elk cow that has only been 3/4 eaten by the local coyotes, etc., and has a quite remarkable odor. To the northeast is the spot where I found a perfect arrowhead, the prize of my collection. But maybe it's better for me to horde these places to myself.
ASalazarMX 2 days ago [-]
I await with bated breath the entry about that ergonomic log.
etewiah 2 days ago [-]
I have just the thing for you. With a chattymap collection, you can tell stories about all those wonderful places and share them with the world:
Your description excited me to click the link. Then I was met with a generic landing page and then clicking map didn’t show me a map. It should just be a map with the stories immediately available as markers. Then clicking through to an about link should take you to that secondary content.
CobrastanJorji 1 days ago [-]
I agree. What I expected was a place for very personal little stories and journals about specific, hyperlocal spots on Earth. What I got was an empty site for public polls on restaurants in large cities.
etewiah 2 days ago [-]
That is good feedback - much appreciated.
There isn't enough content to showcase on the map right now but I'll work on that. Give it another go in a couple of weeks or so.
allthetime 2 days ago [-]
You could seed the map by scraping things like local papers, historical archives, reviews of all kinds, etc. maybe giving them a less prominent appearance compared to user submitted. Getting people using and exploring the tool right away instead of being met with walls of copy and detached forums might be a good move. You could pull the old reddit move and spend a few days adding a tonne of your own stories under different names and/or try and find some others that would be interested in doing the same. Others here would probably tell you to just use LLMs, but I'd avoid that.
As it stands I think you will have a hard time getting people to start filling your database.
etewiah 2 days ago [-]
My plan is indeed to seed some initial data from areas that I know well.
I'm quite into paddle boarding at the moment and in the UK there are a lot of good places to launch from that are not well known so that would be a good niche to start with.
dtjohnnymonkey 5 hours ago [-]
I love this idea. Every time I go on a road trip I wish I could just tune into some audio clips about local stories as I'm driving by.
gnabgib 5 hours ago [-]
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ek_erilaz 2 days ago [-]
I wonder if its more common to notice interesting and special places when in nature versus in the built environment. All of your examples are from nature, and most of mine would be too. But considering it further... in college there was a nook I found on the second floor of a nondescript building, where lounge chairs were built into the floor and covered with astroturf, and at just after midday the sun would shine down on it through a sort of compluvium in the roof. I'd been on that campus for almost three years before I discovered it, and only visited a few times because it was quite out of the way. But what a quiet little refuge, I hope its still there.
There is not even an entry for a river, mountain, lake, etc? Do you live in the middle of the ocean or desert?
rhipitr 2 days ago [-]
Part of me would want to share these pleasant places with others. Part of me would not.
skinfaxi 2 days ago [-]
As first-hand accounts I don't think you could enter these on Wikipedia anyway.
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zahlman 1 days ago [-]
Indeed. The project in the OP is nonsensical to me, because it's impossible to get the desired result by filtering the real Wikipedia. The articles you'd actually want it to have would blatantly violate WP:N, WP:NPOV and especially WP:NOR.
awesome_dude 1 days ago [-]
> To the northeast is the spot where I found a perfect arrowhead
You live in an area rich with history stretching back 35 - 50 thousand years
ant6n 1 days ago [-]
I live in the middle of Berlin. This makes the wiki like a sight seeing book. I think the radius is way too big here.
gib444 2 days ago [-]
Do you have a spare bedroom on Airbnb? Asking for a friend
lifeformed 2 days ago [-]
Citation needed.
nomilk 2 days ago [-]
Weird psychological quirk: otherwise banal articles seem much more pertinent when they happen to be nearby (I just read about a random plane crash from decades ago but felt very invested in it, due to proximity).
Wonder if this is related to the biological phenomena of humans tending to care more about humans who resemble themselves than those who don't (homophily)
ricksunny 10 minutes ago [-]
In nomadism (as in digital nomad) this is quite salient to me, relevant to communication with relations, colleagues and potential ones (i.e. job/gig economic opportunities) across time zones and countries. I am constantly on the lookout for tools that create the feeling of geographic salience without actually being in the same area. I’ve learned to avoid answering the remotely-asked question ‘so where are you anyways’ for as long as possible, for answering candidly usually ends any follow-up communications (“this person is ‘out there’, not serious, etc”).
benrutter 2 days ago [-]
I don't know if that is a psychological quirk - it seems pretty rational to me. We are more affected by events that happen close to us than those that happen far away, so instinctively finding local events more interesting than distant ones seems like what I'd expect[0].
[0] Not that my expectation has any weight, I have close to zero knowledge of psychology.
hobofan 2 days ago [-]
Unless you are in a highly urban area, most Wiki articles will be about _places_ and sometimes _events at the places_, but usually not _events_ themselves.
For things that affect people, I think the impact of the recency axis is significantly larger than the one of the geographical axis. e.g. I feel the effects of the Iran war in my daily consumer prices in my daily life. I don't feel the effects of a famous person being born two doors down from my place 200 years ago in my daily live.
Of course highly local things, like e.g. local politics are also felt, but those are also barely reflected in Wikipedia articles.
deklesen 2 days ago [-]
Mhh i wonder how this would have evolved, since, you know, for 99.99% of time, humans didn't really get any information other than from their immediate proximity. And if they did (e.g. earthquake), it was very much relevant and should affect them.
Just flaunting my ignorance of biology here.
benrutter 2 days ago [-]
I'm at least a tiny bit less ignorant on biology than psychology. I don't think this is the kind of thing that does evolve.
Normally more general capacities than that evolve. We've evolved the ability to learn and adapt, and that's what we're using to create these heuristics. But I don't people evolve into individual beliefs/attitudes in that way.
altmanaltman 2 days ago [-]
I mean, it's the brain, not the world around it. Our brains haven't really evolved much while civilization and technology have been growthmaxxing. Same reason why certain social media posts can trigger a physical, emotional reaction, even though for 99.99% of the time there were no cellphones or social media.
dspillett 2 days ago [-]
I think¹ it is more likely just a function of how we judge danger. Something local could be relevant to us now (if it were ongoing, or was likely to occur again, or affects/affected someone we care about), something far away might be relevant to us later. Nearby or approaching animal sounds? Definitely pay attention. More distant animal sounds? Maybe keep an ear on that. A tale of animal sounds in the next valley? Only take much note if it is part of an otherwise interesting/entertaining story.
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[1] caveat: I am in no way a biologist, sociologist, nor psychiatrist - this pondering may be complete bunkum
PebblesRox 2 days ago [-]
It was a really strange feeling to read through Asimov and get to Robots and Empire, where the story, having ranged throughout a galactic empire in the far-flung future, follows the characters not just to Earth but to Three Mile Island — a place I had seen before! A place less than an hour a way from my hometown! It made the story feel more connected to my own life in a way that I was not expecting.
perfectritone 1 days ago [-]
Anecdotal: I felt much more connected to Kurt Vonnegut's writing knowing that I had walked the same streets as him. The cultural aspects of his characters hit differently being able to match it to people I had met in similar places, albeit at different times.
dgunay 2 days ago [-]
Definitely. I read a few articles top to bottom that I normally wouldn't have even bothered to look up on real Wikipedia, learned some cool local lore.
IAmBroom 2 days ago [-]
I think it's an odd side-effect of our built-in prejudice to value our tribe over strangers, which is a safety feature in all social animals.
"A plane crash in <other country> killed all passengers, including 2 from <our country>" is a fairly common news styling.
cryzinger 1 days ago [-]
One of the nearest articles to me is also a random plane crash, lol.
tannertech 2 days ago [-]
There is a Stalin quote to this effect
shevy-java 2 days ago [-]
> otherwise banal articles
I don't think it is quite banal. The focus is on distance,
with distance being local. There is IMO nothing banal about
that. And the article linked in is minimal rather than banal.
(Also good thing you did not forget the 'b' there.)
You can of course assume everything to have a manipulative focus, but I don't see it here.
esperent 2 days ago [-]
This is a great idea but I'd definitely make the distance configurable. Where I am right now would need several hours walking to reach anywhere Wikipedia worthy but if I expanded to say a 15km circle there's probably a couple of places of interest.
Meanwhile if someone lives in a city they'll get loads of results.
EDIT: actually this is just a wrapper around wikipedia's nearby feature I think. I tried a couple of places and they give identical results.
> EDIT: actually this is just a wrapper around wikipedia's nearby feature I think.
It does at least add a useful feature: being able to state a location to search from. The Wikipedia page (unless there is one other than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby that is more flexible) will only work off your current location, which is completely turned off on my work machine. Also upon checking on my phone, even with “desktop site” forced, the map looks to be an additional feasure too.
drivers99 2 days ago [-]
> The Wikipedia page [...] will only work off your current location
You can put the coordinates of any location in the URL. One way to get that is in google maps, when you right click and click on the coordinates. Paste it where the coordinates go in the URL and remove the space after the comma.
It appears to limit itself to 50 results though, which only got me results up to 930 m away from the location I picked near me.
tannertech 2 days ago [-]
Correct. The default Wikipedia mobile app has this as well.
parkersweb 2 days ago [-]
I have the opposite problem - I live a half hour walk from central Cambridge UK, so results are full of the tourist destinations!
hashar 2 days ago [-]
Disclaimer: I work for the Wikimedia Foundation, albeit in the infrastructure rather than in development / product.
I like this feature a lot, but I do not know how it is implemented and whether it would be possible to have users change the range. Maybe it is hardcoded for some performance reason, I have honestly no clue. But I am giving below a few paths that could help one eventually improve the system.
Do note I am not in the development / product side and I have no view about their backlog or whether they have the bandwidth to review such an incoming review request or a patch.
That extension exposes a public API that allows setting any search radius up to 10 km ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query... ), so presumably there's no barrier to making the search radius smaller, but maybe there'd be performance issues if you allowed making it larger.
(NearbyPages just embeds a Vue app into the page that makes a client-side fetch() call to invoke that API with a hard-coded radius.)
nottorp 2 days ago [-]
The Special:Nearby feature seems to support changing the language. nearbywiki.org is just English while the OP has a language switch but it's limited.
Now I'm not sure if switching the language pulls in more results or just changes the article language...
alentred 2 days ago [-]
When you change the language you are essentially moving to a different Wikipedia site, so yes it does - it pulls the results from the local site you are on.
nottorp 22 hours ago [-]
Ok so in theory you'll get the best results on Wikipedia in the local language... if the locals have bothered to fill in Wikipedia.
dukeyukey 2 days ago [-]
I'm in North London, 500 entries for me, including several pubs.
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zahlman 1 days ago [-]
> Wikipedia cannot determine your location. Please try again with a better signal.
Oh, it doesn't try to fall back to geofencing, hmm?
throwaway173738 2 days ago [-]
In the same vein all of my results are schools except two so it would be nice to have some filters on keyword.
darkest_ruby 2 days ago [-]
Distances measured in yards for European destinations is an insult
valleyer 2 days ago [-]
To convert to meters, multiply by 1.
Rotundo 2 days ago [-]
That's an imperial meter, a standard SI meter is about ten percent longer.
bluGill 2 days ago [-]
For realistic purposes that is well within rounding error and they are the same. Most measures should not be that precise.
ButlerianJihad 2 days ago [-]
I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home; they're not much bigger than two meters!
adrianmonk 2 days ago [-]
Use the Force, Luke, but it's up to you to decide how many newtons.
nkrisc 14 hours ago [-]
Good enough for this.
ChrisRR 2 days ago [-]
Multiply by 0.914
ziiinq 2 days ago [-]
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flohofwoe 2 days ago [-]
Hmm, I see metric distances (kilometers). Accessing from Germany. It's still using the English Wikipedia though, not the German one (which I think would have more local content).
PS: there's a side bar link to switch between miles and km, I might have pressed that (was expecting to see some sort of distance map though instead of switching between 'imperial' and 'modern' ;)
alnwlsn 2 days ago [-]
I rarely see yards used in the united states outside of football and other sports. Usually, distances to travel will go as feet, then right into miles. I can't think of many people who wouldn't say "quarter mile" over "440 yards". Anything less than that is in feet. Buildings and structures are measured in square feet, our long tape measures are usually labeled "300 feet" and not "100 yard", and in land surveying, measurements are often done in (decimal) feet.
One place I do come across yards is in "a yard of dirt" (or mulch, sand, concrete, etc) where it means cubic yard.
jherdman 2 days ago [-]
Heh, yeah. I found the imperial units to be very jarring as a Canadian.
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roryirvine 2 days ago [-]
And mixes it with miles, too. Crazy decision.
ChrisRR 2 days ago [-]
Why is that crazy? They're both imperial units
roryirvine 2 days ago [-]
Because to convert from one to t'other, you have to multiply by 22 x 10 x 8 or whatever it is, rather than simply shift the digits.
For example, there's a park that's 1 mi 180 yds from me - if you were to pick one and stick with it then you could say either 1.1 mis or 1940 yds, rather than mixing the two and expecting people to do multiple rounds of arithmetic.
ChrisRR 2 days ago [-]
Well yeah, imperial units are a mess. But keeping it all imperial or all metric is better than mixing the two
flohofwoe 2 days ago [-]
Could that be a UK thing? I wouldn't know tbh, because between mixing yards and miles versus sticking to imperial units in the 21st century, the latter is definitely crazier ;)
wkjagt 2 days ago [-]
In Canada we have imperial for short measurements (inches and feet for lumber, people's heights) but metric for longer distances (kilometers for driving distances for example)
petepete 2 days ago [-]
Yep, we mix them up. Distance and speed in miles, fuel priced in pounds per litre.
dukky 2 days ago [-]
And fuel economy in miles per gallon!
arethuza 2 days ago [-]
Driving distances in miles, walking distances in kilometers!
roryirvine 2 days ago [-]
And, though admittedly not really exposed much to the public, canals and railways both manage to mix chains in there, too... agh!
arethuza 2 days ago [-]
And thinking about the height of mountains in meters even though the reason for walking up them is because they reach a certain height in feet.
ChrisRR 2 days ago [-]
I don't see the issue. Miles and yards are both imperial units.
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pezezin 2 days ago [-]
> Distances measured in yards for non-US destinations is an insult
FTFY. I live in Japan and it also shows me the distance in yards and miles.
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slymax 2 days ago [-]
Wikipedia has a nearby feature that works in other languages as well
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.
Change the lat long to any you want, and change "en." to other language codes to search a different (language) encyclopedia.
jayknight 2 days ago [-]
You can go to any article with location data, click the coordinates to go to the geohack page with links to all kinds of data about that location, which includes a link to "List of nearby articles" which takes you back to wikipedia's nearby search for that location. So from the White House page:
Speaking of: All the OP link does is pull articles from Wikipedia. Am I in a minority in not seeing the point? When I read the title I expected it to be a site for locals to share their knowledge, that would have been really cool. It's strangers who'd benefit most from local knowledge, people generally know their homes and what's around them. It also didn't even work when I tried it and showed articles that were over 100 miles off the location I input.
everdrive 2 days ago [-]
This was much cooler than I expected. It doesn't seem to be accurate with regard to the "half hour walk" but it still paints a nice radius. I'm in a fairly rural area, so I didn't expect to find much of anything, but it's got local parks and trails as well as churches and landmarks. It's a short list; there's just not much around us, but this seems like a cool resource
noduerme 2 days 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!
jayknight 2 days ago [-]
Yeah, But I didn't really want to read this article as I was waking up...
Great project. Also nice that they are using photon for their address search.
I might be pendantic here (for reasons you find in my profile), but this isnt a "half hour walk" and it is just a 3 km radius around the location, i.e. as the crow flies and rivers or walls are ignored. A real half hour walk would be an isochrone for a walking profile ;)
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.
aworks 2 days ago [-]
I bought many a book and saw various authors at Printers Inc., although apparently more than 25 years ago.
Had some meaningful conversations at the Cafe (which I assume finally closed as well). I never liked the Starbucks across the street.
phgn 2 days ago [-]
Yes particularly in SF so many of the historical buildings seem to be gone :(
Because of earthquakes maybe?
biotechbio 1 days ago [-]
Hello fellow palo alto person
trencedamp 2 days ago [-]
Really cool idea but not ideal for tourists. I just tried where I live and it mostly gave me a list of housing developments and roads. Nothing actually interesting, and there definitely are interesting things!
phforms 1 days ago [-]
There is also the Wikimedia project Wikivoyage[1], which focusses exclusively on travel guides. I just recently learned about it but haven’t actually used it yet, so I don’t know if it is any good.
+1 from me one but even with 'just' english I was surprised at the amount and quality of stuff in my area.
monegator 2 days ago [-]
same!
abeppu 7 hours ago [-]
I don't at all understand Wikipedia's notability criteria. I see pages for individual public transit stops in SF. I switched it to look near my work, and it shows me defunct restaurants, an office building, the dead mall. Do these all deserve their own pages?
ek_erilaz 2 days ago [-]
This is so cool! Looking at my own city, most of the points of interest are public buildings; somehow the fact that its MY fire department building makes it relevant to me. Otherwise I'd probably never read an article about the history of a random fire department building. A few other commenters have mentioned that information feels more interesting when its physically close to you, I agree.
I had an idea a while back to gather audio recordings of people telling stories of their adventures in my area (Alaska) and placing them on a map, with the arbitrary restriction that you have to physically go to the place the story happened to unlock it. It works, and I think its pretty cool, but also found it takes a TON of time meeting with people, recording, cleaning up the audio... after about 100 stories I slowed down on the project. But if anyone here lives in Alaska, you can listen to these stories (mobile app only) for free at https://loremaps.io/app. Someday I hope to get back to it.
vintagedave 2 days ago [-]
Like others, I agree this is very cool.
I live somewhere pretty remote, and every article it suggests is an entry for a nearby village, which is usually a sentence long. There are other interesting things nearby: could it have some kind of variance function, so it looks specifically for a variety of content?
Here I am, seeing something cool and immediately asking for changes. Spirit of the internet ;) Genuinely, it is a wonderful idea, and I admire the concept and that you did it.
user_7832 2 days ago [-]
Very similar, except I live in a very large city... but it's not an anglophile 1st world country, so tr list is full of streets and unis and roads. "Hey do you know your <location> features <location station>!?" lol
jamiescript 2 days ago [-]
Why is this not called Walkipedia?
possibleworlds 1 days ago [-]
Recently my friend paid attention to a statue of a man near his apartment he had passed for years. The story is behind this person is worthy of a movie, he’s like a character in a Pynchon novel:
Omg I love this so much mate! Incredible how much more relevant nearby articles feel than the default to which you have no personal connection. I also think local news are much better/useful for the same reason.
I'm working on something similar! Open World, an app that turns collecting nearby Wikipedia places into a game! [1]
It started with you having to go to the place IRL to unlock the article/story, mostly so you find cool spots out on a walk. But slowly I discovered that most people go on walks somewhat rarely, so now it also includes a virtual Fast-Travel system using Apple Maps LookAround :)
Oh, also a 3D map of the different neighbourhoods of a city to unlock one a time, plus narrative Quests to complete with the secrets you found, ...
Is it possible to change the language of Wikipedia? For many places, the local language Wikipedia has more articles.
snickerer 2 days ago [-]
Yes!!
And with today's translation programs, the user does not even need to understand the local language.
Better — for me — would even be a mix of languages. Give me the most and longest articles of all languages for the places around.
JbMaj9 14 hours ago [-]
Someone already made an app with the same idea 10+ years ago, and they’re still maintaining that, for free:
How are the locations decided? For example: a broad, regional geologic feature (a sedimentary layer spanning for tens or hundreds of miles) is presented on the map with a point located at a nearby private residence.
Is that home just coincidentally near the geometric center of the geographic region the feature is named after?
If this were the kind of thing that caught on and became wildly popular I'd be concerned about it misdirecting people to private property.
mvdwoord 2 days ago [-]
Vey nicely done! One issue though, not many local articles in english here. I see no obvious way to change language?
ChrisRR 2 days ago [-]
Mine is all of the local schools and then a cold war nuclear bunker that I didn't know about
bbrks 2 days ago [-]
Same. Nearby villages, churches, schools, and then a random Edwardian sewage pumping station that is open to the public. TIL!
Salparvezml 21 hours ago [-]
Ordinary houses are the gap for me. Most of the history within a half hour walk isn't notable enough for Wikipedia: who built a place, when the porch was added, what got covered up behind the plaster in the 1950s. That record usually lives in the heads of whoever worked on the house and disappears with them. A walkable map seems like a natural place to start collecting it.
johnny_lol 2 days ago [-]
I used this during my walk around around Tirana, Albania this morning where I'm traveling right now. I learned some interesting history about the neighborhood I'm staying in. Also discovered some museums and buildings nearby that I'd like to check out now.
When I visit a new city I usually spend time poking around Google Maps to discover points of interest nearby, but this will be another useful resource. Thanks!
jcrawfordor 1 days ago [-]
My husband built this map browser for Wikipedia, in large part for travel planning: https://wikimap.wiki/
suncemoje 2 days ago [-]
I was going to mention Google Maps as well - IMO would be useful to add reviews from there to get a better sense of suggested places
adg001 1 days ago [-]
It doesn't work very well, in my experience. I have entered my hometown, which happens to have a Wikipedia entry. Local Wikipedia listed nearby entries, but omitted the Wikipedia page of the town itself, alongside other Wikipedia entries related to the same place. So, I tried looking up a nearby town, and see whether the pages related to my hometown would eventually show up, but they didn't. The pages involved have the coordinates populated.
brianjlogan 2 days ago [-]
I just ran through the alternatives posted and my personal preference for UX is the OP's.
Speed to load, the specific use case I want which is just to load up near me and see a performant map I can browse.
The other links were either projects, games, or apps that did the same with older map projections that performed poorly for me.
stonecore 22 hours ago [-]
That's a nice idea, but doesn't it solve a “problem” that doesn't really need a solution in the first place, or? Wouldn't it make more sense to be able to filter by categories, such as day trip destinations, family, etc.?
thatwasunusual 2 days ago [-]
I love it. It would also be nice to be able to a) enter desired distance, and b) choose the metric system.
ortichic 2 days ago [-]
c) select the Wikipedia language. There are some English Wikipedia articles for my region, but my local language Wikipedia has much more
kls0e 2 days ago [-]
thanks a lot, +1 für b).
firefax 2 days ago [-]
Wikivoyage is a useful alternative to those expensive Lonely Planet books, though they got a little manic about having each district of a city have it's own page in some smaller areas.
Elucalidavah 2 days 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.
aembleton 2 days ago [-]
Comaps also has offline wikipedia entries. So you can be on a hill, and read about the iron age fort that was once there.
britta 2 days ago [-]
Wikinewsie is also fun, showing regional current events articles from Wikipedia:
It's cool, but I think this should be extended beyond landmarks. It would be fun to have people that lived in the area or that are connected to that area for some reason
anon_cow1111 2 days ago [-]
A lot of popular websites like to throw snarky error pages at you which some people find annoying. But I actually DO want to see this site give you snarky pages if it finds zero normal articles within x distance.
From today's featured article:
Dirt
Nearest to you:
Missing sock
Wilson the volleyball
Gut microbiome
Depression
Ants
Overdue bill
Serial killer
thechao 2 days ago [-]
I've got one article near me. There's another group of articles that, I guess, are a bit further off? One of them reads like an ad for a creepy park. Luckily, the actual walking time is more like 24 hours. Yay rural Texas?
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richardw 2 days ago [-]
Excellent. I discovered that the Sydney area Fairlight eventually led to the name of the synthesiser, which had a massive impact on music.
Filtering is all nice, but for a truly local wiki you should get different relevance criteria and different licensing criteria, to be able to negotiate citing local more recent sources.
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bhelkey 1 days ago [-]
A note, I found that many of the descriptions in "Did you know" include the place name. That is to say, I saw many many descriptions with the phrase "located in $CITY, $STATE, United States".
As all points are within a small radius, these description are very redundant.
lode 2 days ago [-]
Related: You can also check geotagged Wikipedia pages on a map: https://wiki-map.com/
A fun way to find articles nearby that need photographs is Wikishootme - https://wikishootme.toolforge.org/ (although it seems to be offline at the moment).
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danking00 1 days ago [-]
If you like this you’d probably like Inquire which does a very similar thing but with a maps focused UI and designed for a phone.
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.
altilunium 2 days ago [-]
most of the things within a half-hour walk from us are actually banned on wikipedia because they're not notable enough.. i was expecting this site to let us freely add "those forbidden" things. i had high hopes when reading the title alone..
turns out, it just filters existing wikipedia articles based on their proximity to a given coordinate.
profsummergig 2 days ago [-]
Simply fantastic. In my obscure little city, I've already discovered a bunch of historic places I had no idea about.
jabroni_salad 2 days ago [-]
This is really neat. Apparently my dentist's office was initially built as an opera house.
Yes, but coverage outside the US is surprisingly sparse. Many European countries (Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Greece…) have fewer than 20 points of interest each.
mxfh 2 days ago [-]
Because hosting with some other entity is not what you want for a regional focus where you want to set your own relevance criteria and licensing agreements ideally.
Germany and Austria have quite a bit of local Wikis with more than 20 active editors.
Usually as some entity adjacent to the cities archive or run by some local foundation.
Great idea. Similarly, the only reason I keep OsmAnd installed is that I can add a layer of "Wikipedia articles" -- a fun way to kill time when I'm backpacking and want to explore something outside the influence-o-sphere.
Now getting this info as easily navigable webpages is amazing.
hbn 1 days ago [-]
This is a really cool idea but my entire city is mostly articles for regional districts and schools. I also found an article on the casino and the refinery on the edge of town.
netfortius 2 days ago [-]
English version only. Tried a few towns in Europe, and it's missing a lot of what the local language Wikipedia offers, so it's useful, in large part, probably for the anglophone world only.
rconti 2 days ago [-]
Pretty cool! Here in Menlo Park, they call out Kepler's Books, which most people would know about, but also the first Round Table Pizza which I think few people know about.
slyall 2 days ago [-]
I found out that a closed church I walk past regularly was called "St Chad's"
charles_f 1 days ago [-]
Of note, something similar exists in OSMAnd~. You can download wikipedia articles for areas you downloaded. It's very useful when you visit a place IMO
l0b0 1 days ago [-]
Looking at articles about the surrounding area while being a passenger is a great way to discover future destinations, and to just learn what's out there. OSMAnd makes this really easy by toggling the Wikipedia overlay.
keerthiko 2 days ago [-]
I see it's capped to 500 articles, because the first two zip codes i tried were the middle of manhattan and the middle of sf, and i was curious just how many wikipedia articles these two epicenters have.
mju 2 days ago [-]
I imagine it would be sooo cool... but for me, living in the proverbial middle of nowhere, far away from cities and tourist attractions, there isn't really that much to do or read, unfortunately.^^
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paxy 2 days ago [-]
The concept is cool but in practice Wikipedia with just a bunch of buildings is not that interesting. Surely there are more than ~300 noteworthy articles for a dense NYC zip code.
koito17 2 days ago [-]
All I get are train stations unless I decide to input the city instead of the street... but then the areas are no longer 30-minute walks!
Interesting failure mode, but I like the concept overall.
JeanCampos 2 days ago [-]
Great idea! top10 "vibe code this in an afternoon"!
hrldcpr 2 days ago [-]
Fun to follow subway station articles along my local line, until they stop becoming clickable links because they're too far away
ctrlaltdileep 2 days ago [-]
Very cool, I imagine this would be useful for someone having moved to somewhere new. I'm planning a potential move so will definitely be using this!
h1696UOuk 2 days ago [-]
Doesn't the Wikipedia iOS app already have a feature exactly like this and every map solution that's posted in this comment section? Do they add anything?
eng_qs_anon 1 days ago [-]
This is great. One request-- please let me enlarge images in the articles.
captainbland 20 hours ago [-]
This is really cool, will definitely be using
floriferous 2 days ago [-]
This is so amazing. Thank you for building this. I hope you keep refining it and making it better for different use cases!
CPUHall 2 days ago [-]
Kinda cool, thanks for building this. Not much around me unfortunately, maybe allow expanding the range of distance?
sirnicolaz 2 days ago [-]
Thank you, i would like to give you a tip. this is the kind of work that makes the internet a better and more useful place
FfejL 2 days ago [-]
Fun to compare the part of Bay Area I live in now to the Cleveland suburb I grew up in. Huge difference in entries!
flohofwoe 2 days ago [-]
Neat! A whole 25 articles for my neck of the wood :D
(although I guess the German Wikipedia would have a bit more content than the English Wikipedia used here)
This is very cool - one feature request: please support other languages! German Wikipedia would have way better info for my location :-)
Trigodil 2 days 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).
han2 2 days ago [-]
This should be official feature in Wikipedia
thuruv 2 days ago [-]
I always know wikipedia is an ocean. But having this popping up 100s of entries nearby is fun!
refsab 2 days 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
ReDress 2 days ago [-]
Just when I moved over into a VPN, now the broader network / internet is looking more welcoming - heh
utopiah 2 days ago [-]
Neat, would also make for a nice Zim (offline Wikipedia and other websites) plugin/view.
laybak 2 days ago [-]
I love how this redirects attention from familiar patterns in a wholesome direction
SCdF 2 days ago [-]
This is very cool! Yes wikipedia does this already, but I love that it formats it into your own mini wikipedia.
jcmontx 2 days ago [-]
That's so cool, I've only got 3 articles nearby haha. I live in rural Argentina
cm2012 1 days ago [-]
To me this exposes the extreme limitations Wikipedia has given itself. My location could have 10 times as many Wikipedia articles nearby about things that are interesting, unique, or historically relevant. But those articles would all get denied.
zkmon 2 days ago [-]
I consider this to be far more progress for humanity than landing on moon or sending a spaceship to outside of solar system. That's because this move is in the right direction, while others are not. As a human, you need to first master your habitat around you, before getting excited or concerned about things that happen in another country thousands of miles away.
vasco 2 days ago [-]
You wouldn't even have spices thinking like that
zkmon 2 days ago [-]
You don't need them if they are not native to your place and if you are native of your place.
vasco 1 days ago [-]
Yeah no man, take your nationalistic crap somewhere else, I like spices and stuff from other places
random_cat_8745 2 days ago [-]
This is amazing, I can better explore the region I live at. Thanks for the project!
nikharminds 2 days ago [-]
How is this different from the default wikipedia app? What value it is bringing?
dd8601fn 1 days ago [-]
Don’t try zip codes. It gives you somewhere in Mexico.
snickerer 2 days ago [-]
Content that is curated by interested humans, without commercial interests, is so good.
KellyCriterion 2 days ago [-]
It works great, cool project!
I discovered something rightout near me that I wasnt aware of!:)
dzogchen 2 days ago [-]
Very cool idea. Would be even better if it had an option to use a local language.
Harukadia 2 days ago [-]
Great software difinietly. How can we get much information such in local?
dyauspitr 2 days ago [-]
Very nice! It really should have a field to enter the radius of the search.
arshxyz 2 days ago [-]
This is amazing. How is the Did You Know section generated?
thomasahle 2 days ago [-]
Fun!
Would be nice if it supported articles in different languages.
bcvvvy 2 days ago [-]
This is the World Wide Web I want to see. Amazing job. Thank you!
amelius 2 days ago [-]
Can I pick other planets?
(It could be fun to have an AI populate the db)
demritocracy 2 days ago [-]
I absolutely love this, phenomenal work!
aizk 2 days ago [-]
Really missed calling it localpedia!
rsynnott 2 days ago [-]
Some of the Did you know entries are unintentionally quite funny:
> ... that 7 Eccles Street was a row house in Dublin, Ireland?
I mean, as the name, and the fact that it is a _row house_ (though, also, it's weird that the article, and I checked, it's like that in the real Wikipedia too, calls it that; they're usually called terraced houses here), indicates that, well, there were a few of them. It's actually notable because it's where Leopold Bloom lives in Ulysses.
no1guangming 2 days ago [-]
Checked Hong Kong, not much on the page
lukeplato 1 days ago [-]
incredible that ideas like this are still being invented
collabs 2 days ago [-]
The nearest place to me was
> 0.8 miles
Ok great I thought that I can walk...
however, it is actually 1.9 miles when walking according to Google Maps and the path lacks sidewalks.
internet_points 2 days ago [-]
neat idea :)
should probably use local language wikipedia? english is rather bare-bones for my area
... that A is a commune in the X department in western France?
... that B is a commune in the X department in western France?
... that C is a commune in the X department in western France?
... that D is a commune in the X department in western France?
... that E is a commune in the X department in western France?
... that F is a commune in the X department in western France?
Yes, I knew. They're all nearby communes. If I go in any direction, I can't miss them.
Perenti 2 days ago [-]
Missed by about 70km.
INTPenis 2 days ago [-]
This is a really fun idea, but I went from excited to disgusted in the span of one click.
The first thing that pops up for my city of Malmö is the school stabbing that happened in 2022. They're so rare here, and yet Wikipedia felt I just had to see it.
I'm not going to make stupid feature requests, but it would be cool with a filter for types of Wikipedia articles to show.
zulko 2 days ago [-]
I made a map of Wikipedia pages and events once [1] and a key decision was: which pages to show first, and which to show only when the user zooms in?
I went with "let's show pages with the most words first". If people spent more time writing a page, it must be a great topic, right? Unfortunately, this also surfaces all the wars, crimes, accidents and controversies that generated the most coverage. These are the most active pages on Wikipedia.
This is incredible. I already learned about several things literally within few miles from me that I had no idea existed. Thank you!
eru 2 days ago [-]
Can we get SI units for distance?
ChrisGreenHeur 2 days ago [-]
I guess it works but I have no idea what a yard or a mile is.
numpad0 2 days 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 2 days 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!
Nobody cares about Wikipedia anymore, it’s all in AI.
utopiah 2 days ago [-]
I do care still, there are dozens of us, dozens!
shevy-java 2 days 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.
bigfishrunning 2 days ago [-]
the only way to fight back is to put up (and use!) small web pages, and foster small communities.
It shows all Wikipedia articles on a zoomable map. The size of the labels depends on its pagerank score and the pageview statistics.
phgn 2 days ago [-]
Wow this is surprisingly useful to explore local data, thanks for building!!
I wonder: why are you calculating PageRank, are the wiki article views not enough?
If I play around with the importance slider, PageRank seems to have much less difference between articles, highlighting just a few articles per city in large text.
And because of bot traffic, the pageview statistics are sometimes suspicious and noisy.
jstanley 2 days ago [-]
Cool map but FYI most of the ones near me are just random buildings that don't even have Wikipedia articles.
tomthe 2 days ago [-]
Oh, yes. It also includes all Wikidata entries with geocoordinates, but they have the lowest "importance" and are only shown very small.
You need to zoom out a bit to see places with articles.
syshyk 2 days ago [-]
Would it be possible to filter this to only show wikipedia objects?
tomthe 2 days ago [-]
If you open the menu, there are already some filters, but no filter to filter out Wikidata-only entries yet. Maybe I will add it.
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none Americans complaining about using yards is hilarious tbh
Having an encyclopedia entirely sourced in an LLM that is easily manipulated and prone to "hallucination" doesn't seem like a great idea, that's why not.
trombuance 1 days ago [-]
I was very skeptical of the idea of a bot encyclopedia myself, but after looking up a few random articles and comparing them with human-authored encyclopedias, I can't say it's worse. One of the articles was actually substantially less biased than the Wikipedia version.
The LLM sources from the same reliable sources as Wikipedia (including Wikipedia itself). Wikipedia is arguably easier manipulated and known to be heavily astroturfed by governments, corporations and political activists. To manipulate Grokipedia you'd have to either hack xAI, which would almost certainly be discovered, or rewrite all its sources.
https://chattymaps.com/collections
There isn't enough content to showcase on the map right now but I'll work on that. Give it another go in a couple of weeks or so.
As it stands I think you will have a hard time getting people to start filling your database.
I'm quite into paddle boarding at the moment and in the UK there are a lot of good places to launch from that are not well known so that would be a good niche to start with.
You live in an area rich with history stretching back 35 - 50 thousand years
Wonder if this is related to the biological phenomena of humans tending to care more about humans who resemble themselves than those who don't (homophily)
[0] Not that my expectation has any weight, I have close to zero knowledge of psychology.
For things that affect people, I think the impact of the recency axis is significantly larger than the one of the geographical axis. e.g. I feel the effects of the Iran war in my daily consumer prices in my daily life. I don't feel the effects of a famous person being born two doors down from my place 200 years ago in my daily live.
Of course highly local things, like e.g. local politics are also felt, but those are also barely reflected in Wikipedia articles.
Just flaunting my ignorance of biology here.
Normally more general capacities than that evolve. We've evolved the ability to learn and adapt, and that's what we're using to create these heuristics. But I don't people evolve into individual beliefs/attitudes in that way.
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[1] caveat: I am in no way a biologist, sociologist, nor psychiatrist - this pondering may be complete bunkum
"A plane crash in <other country> killed all passengers, including 2 from <our country>" is a fairly common news styling.
I don't think it is quite banal. The focus is on distance, with distance being local. There is IMO nothing banal about that. And the article linked in is minimal rather than banal. (Also good thing you did not forget the 'b' there.)
You can of course assume everything to have a manipulative focus, but I don't see it here.
Meanwhile if someone lives in a city they'll get loads of results.
EDIT: actually this is just a wrapper around wikipedia's nearby feature I think. I tried a couple of places and they give identical results.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby#/coord/15.90721...
It does at least add a useful feature: being able to state a location to search from. The Wikipedia page (unless there is one other than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby that is more flexible) will only work off your current location, which is completely turned off on my work machine. Also upon checking on my phone, even with “desktop site” forced, the map looks to be an additional feasure too.
You can put the coordinates of any location in the URL. One way to get that is in google maps, when you right click and click on the coordinates. Paste it where the coordinates go in the URL and remove the space after the comma.
It appears to limit itself to 50 results though, which only got me results up to 930 m away from the location I picked near me.
I like this feature a lot, but I do not know how it is implemented and whether it would be possible to have users change the range. Maybe it is hardcoded for some performance reason, I have honestly no clue. But I am giving below a few paths that could help one eventually improve the system.
The page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby is powered by the MediaWiki extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NearbyPages .
The source code is https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/NearbyPa... (GitHub mirror https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-NearbyPage... ).
Issues/bugs are tracked at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/nearbypages/ , it is possible a similar request already exists there.
Do note I am not in the development / product side and I have no view about their backlog or whether they have the bandwidth to review such an incoming review request or a patch.
That extension exposes a public API that allows setting any search radius up to 10 km ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query... ), so presumably there's no barrier to making the search radius smaller, but maybe there'd be performance issues if you allowed making it larger.
(NearbyPages just embeds a Vue app into the page that makes a client-side fetch() call to invoke that API with a hard-coded radius.)
Now I'm not sure if switching the language pulls in more results or just changes the article language...
Oh, it doesn't try to fall back to geofencing, hmm?
PS: there's a side bar link to switch between miles and km, I might have pressed that (was expecting to see some sort of distance map though instead of switching between 'imperial' and 'modern' ;)
One place I do come across yards is in "a yard of dirt" (or mulch, sand, concrete, etc) where it means cubic yard.
For example, there's a park that's 1 mi 180 yds from me - if you were to pick one and stick with it then you could say either 1.1 mis or 1940 yds, rather than mixing the two and expecting people to do multiple rounds of arithmetic.
FTFY. I live in Japan and it also shows me the distance in yards and miles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby
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.
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.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House ->
2. https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=White_Hou... ->
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby#/coord/38.89777...
A healthy mistrust.
It's bizare how many people give their coodinates to any random website that asks for them.
https://www.location-guard.com/
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/change-geolocation-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Ell_Persons
I might be pendantic here (for reasons you find in my profile), but this isnt a "half hour walk" and it is just a 3 km radius around the location, i.e. as the crow flies and rivers or walls are ignored. A real half hour walk would be an isochrone for a walking profile ;)
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.
Had some meaningful conversations at the Cafe (which I assume finally closed as well). I never liked the Starbucks across the street.
Because of earthquakes maybe?
[1] https://www.wikivoyage.org
Then post on location specific subreddits. Folks will eat this up.
You can let it pick your own location, and if you rewrite the language prefix at the beginning of the url, you get that language's version. [2][3]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby#/coord/15.90721...
[2] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby#/coord/15.90721...
[3] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby#/coord/15.90721...
I had an idea a while back to gather audio recordings of people telling stories of their adventures in my area (Alaska) and placing them on a map, with the arbitrary restriction that you have to physically go to the place the story happened to unlock it. It works, and I think its pretty cool, but also found it takes a TON of time meeting with people, recording, cleaning up the audio... after about 100 stories I slowed down on the project. But if anyone here lives in Alaska, you can listen to these stories (mobile app only) for free at https://loremaps.io/app. Someday I hope to get back to it.
I live somewhere pretty remote, and every article it suggests is an entry for a nearby village, which is usually a sentence long. There are other interesting things nearby: could it have some kind of variance function, so it looks specifically for a variety of content?
Here I am, seeing something cool and immediately asking for changes. Spirit of the internet ;) Genuinely, it is a wonderful idea, and I admire the concept and that you did it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Houghton
https://youtu.be/0MWnSKDsURg
I'm working on something similar! Open World, an app that turns collecting nearby Wikipedia places into a game! [1]
It started with you having to go to the place IRL to unlock the article/story, mostly so you find cool spots out on a walk. But slowly I discovered that most people go on walks somewhat rarely, so now it also includes a virtual Fast-Travel system using Apple Maps LookAround :)
Oh, also a 3D map of the different neighbourhoods of a city to unlock one a time, plus narrative Quests to complete with the secrets you found, ...
Local History is fun!!
[1] https://openworldapp.xyz
https://apps.apple.com/hk/app/inquire-wikipedia-around-you/i...
Is that home just coincidentally near the geometric center of the geographic region the feature is named after?
If this were the kind of thing that caught on and became wildly popular I'd be concerned about it misdirecting people to private property.
When I visit a new city I usually spend time poking around Google Maps to discover points of interest nearby, but this will be another useful resource. Thanks!
Speed to load, the specific use case I want which is just to load up near me and see a performant map I can browse.
The other links were either projects, games, or apps that did the same with older map projections that performed poorly for me.
https://wikinewsie.toolforge.org/en/portal/california
https://wikinewsie.toolforge.org/en/portal/europe
From today's featured article:
Dirt
Nearest to you:
Missing sock
Wilson the volleyball
Gut microbiome
Depression
Ants
Overdue bill
Serial killer
https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/?w=Fairlight%2C_New_South_...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkiYy0i8FtA
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regiowiki
Filtering is all nice, but for a truly local wiki you should get different relevance criteria and different licensing criteria, to be able to negotiate citing local more recent sources.
As all points are within a small radius, these description are very redundant.
A fun way to find articles nearby that need photographs is Wikishootme - https://wikishootme.toolforge.org/ (although it seems to be offline at the moment).
https://tamper.io/inquire/
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.
turns out, it just filters existing wikipedia articles based on their proximity to a given coordinate.
Been around over 20 years
Germany and Austria have quite a bit of local Wikis with more than 20 active editors. Usually as some entity adjacent to the cities archive or run by some local foundation.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regiowiki#Deutschsprachige_Reg...
Now getting this info as easily navigable webpages is amazing.
Interesting failure mode, but I like the concept overall.
(although I guess the German Wikipedia would have a bit more content than the English Wikipedia used here)
Found an abbey around my place in Western Bavaria I didn't know existed
I discovered something rightout near me that I wasnt aware of!:)
(It could be fun to have an AI populate the db)
> ... that 7 Eccles Street was a row house in Dublin, Ireland?
I mean, as the name, and the fact that it is a _row house_ (though, also, it's weird that the article, and I checked, it's like that in the real Wikipedia too, calls it that; they're usually called terraced houses here), indicates that, well, there were a few of them. It's actually notable because it's where Leopold Bloom lives in Ulysses.
> 0.8 miles
Ok great I thought that I can walk...
however, it is actually 1.9 miles when walking according to Google Maps and the path lacks sidewalks.
should probably use local language wikipedia? english is rather bare-bones for my area
Edit: others have pointed out https://wiki-map.com/, which is way better.
Has local language too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby
... that A is a commune in the X department in western France?
... that B is a commune in the X department in western France?
... that C is a commune in the X department in western France?
... that D is a commune in the X department in western France?
... that E is a commune in the X department in western France?
... that F is a commune in the X department in western France?
Yes, I knew. They're all nearby communes. If I go in any direction, I can't miss them.
The first thing that pops up for my city of Malmö is the school stabbing that happened in 2022. They're so rare here, and yet Wikipedia felt I just had to see it.
I'm not going to make stupid feature requests, but it would be cool with a filter for types of Wikipedia articles to show.
I went with "let's show pages with the most words first". If people spent more time writing a page, it must be a great topic, right? Unfortunately, this also surfaces all the wars, crimes, accidents and controversies that generated the most coverage. These are the most active pages on Wikipedia.
[1] https://landnotes.org/?location=u0q9wgry-5&paneTab=about
A yard is just 10% short of a meter, just the same thing for most practical purposes.
(full disclosure: I did look these up)
It shows all Wikipedia articles on a zoomable map. The size of the labels depends on its pagerank score and the pageview statistics.
I wonder: why are you calculating PageRank, are the wiki article views not enough?
If I play around with the importance slider, PageRank seems to have much less difference between articles, highlighting just a few articles per city in large text.
And because of bot traffic, the pageview statistics are sometimes suspicious and noisy.
https://grokipedia.com
The LLM sources from the same reliable sources as Wikipedia (including Wikipedia itself). Wikipedia is arguably easier manipulated and known to be heavily astroturfed by governments, corporations and political activists. To manipulate Grokipedia you'd have to either hack xAI, which would almost certainly be discovered, or rewrite all its sources.