On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:40 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: <snip>
> In my opinion, What is really missing for example is the ability to > find all the articles that occur in a geographic location. > > I would like to see all the articles about Beijing for example, but it > is not easy. Google provides some of this, but it could be better. <snip> I've seriously thought about implementing this. Enhancing the existing coordinate templates by creating a searchable coordinates table in the database would not be a difficult thing. It requires a bit of thought and effort to make it efficient, but the underlying idea is simple. Locating nearby articles (and geocoded images) could have a lot of uses. -Robert Rohde _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
