TIL about the existence of Wikipedia's Nearby page, a list of pages tagged with coordinates nearby where you are
TIL about the existence of Wikipedia's Nearby page, a list of pages tagged with coordinates nearby where you are
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Shame you can't manually input a location (not only for privacy, but for tourists and visitors who might want to plan ahead)
You can! You just need to construct your URL manually.
For example, let's say you're in Idaho: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby#/coord/43.1896782,-112.3461974
The numbers at the end are latitude and longitude. You can get these numbers from a GPS app, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap. For example, here's that same location on OSM: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/43.1896782/-112.3461974 . You can see the coordinates at the end of the URL.
Bit of a hassle, but you could potentially write a script or bookmarklet to make this easier.
Thanks, as you say, that's a lot of hassle and not something a random user would be able to know on their own, so I appreciate the info!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby#/coord/LAT,LONG
replace LAT and LONG
You can. I
- opened gMaps
- grabbed my lat/long
- corrected the nearby URL because in #Canada it's always wrong when on desktop
- found the building I was in is apparently 1.3 km away, which will affect my walk to the loo
But the facility being wrong is secondary; it's possible.
What is the structure of the Nearby URL when manually entering coordinates?
By the makers of wikipedia: