What a cool feature!
I have just been informed you can also see pages nearby other pages with a special URL query (apparently no interface exists for this yet)
…and I thought of a web game you can make with this, if anyone’s bored and looking for something to do: https://brain.d.on-t.work/notes/9on0iba4evg40hic
- pick a random page
- find all pages nearby
- make the player guess the random page from the nearby pages
- if they haven’t guessed the exact page, compare the coordinates and score based on distance to the correct page
Cool! Its like Geoguessr meets Wikispeedia!
TIL Wikipedia has no page for the 28’ Canadian Toonie monument
Er. Stupid question. How do I actually tell it where I am so this will work? Or does it only work on mobile?
I just posted an answer under a different comment. See https://lemm.ee/comment/8402398
Lots of railway stations, an old church, and literally just a cliff. Yeah that sounds about right, level-of-excitement-round-here-wise!
Not entirely worth the effort but I appreciate the tutorial nontheless :D
Actually learned a lot I didn’t know about the history of the little town I live in - very cool! Thank you!
I took a look. It’s all train stations, schools, and farms.
You’d think I lived in the middle of nowhere.
yeah same here unfortunately. but then I am currently somewhere I’d consider middle of nowhere
actually there was one plane crash but that’s not necessarily an article I’m interested in
I have 5 results. An Indian reservation, a little-known geographic feature and 3 unincorporated communities. All of those outside of 5km from me.
On OsmAnd, go to configure map and enable Wikipedia. All articles with location are visible.
I love OsmAnd so I purchased the OsmAnd+, I highly recommend
The place where I live
The lake I visited once
Two churches
A 14th century battle
A museum
A concentration camp
It’s not too great a puzzle, as you’re having your nations flag in your user name, but…
Kaunas?
Kaunas would have way more stuff around. :)
I live in a middle of historically significant nowhere.
8 schools, an airport, and a hospital. Gripping.
Gold Base 9.7km 😵💫
It’s very American that one of the pages nearby me is a well known mass shooting.
I guess you live on the US. Most of America doesn’t have this problem
Yeah, OP should’ve said Unitedstatesofamerican because that’s what people do
US is shorter
It’s very US that one of the pages…
That’s not how denonyms work
Correct, I only use American for the US because I don’t think there’s a term like “Mexican” or “Canadian” for the US other than “American”. US-ican or United States-ican doesn’t quite roll off the tongue.
Mexico actually refers to themselves as the United States of Mexico. Fun fact…
Mexican United States*
Does any other country on the continent of North America or South America actually have the word “America” in their name? Do people from countries who don’t use the word “America” in their name identify more strongly with the word than people from countries that do use the word “America” in their name? You’re in America according to your post history. Who exactly are you sticking up for?
I live in America. I do not live in the US. There are over 30 countries in America.
and when you go anywhere in the entire world and say you’re from America they will think you mean the U.S. and when you get to give your little lecture about the technical definition of America they too will find you tiresome and unpleasant.
Okay well you said you were arrested in Sonoma County California USA. I guess you were visiting.
Ive lived in a lot of places…
Your argument sounds so weak right now. Really? “I don’t live there! I mean, I did. Last week. But now I’m not from there, I’m from here”. Whatever dude.
Wherever you are now, I bet there’s at least one person in town who would deck you if you tried to call their country, that they’re proud of, “America”, which is the name of another country that they’ve likely been screwed by in the past. Except I bet you’re still in California.
I’m currently hanging my hat in America. I’m not in the US.
It doesn’t matter where I am. That doesn’t affect thr really that conflating the US with all of America is rude to the vast majority of the population across two continents.
A bunch of schools, parks, and malls is all I really see. The only thing of interest that’s happened around here is we had a machete attack in 2016.
I live in Copenhagen so this is gonna be a field day!
awww thats the dream, whats it like. i even lesrned some danish. hej, mange tak, farvel, rodt, hund, hoved, jeg har, du er etc.
Nearby me is suburb I live in and the nearby suburbs, oh and the electoral district of those exact same suburbs.
cool tip, i didn’t know about this either but it’s awesome!
