I would guess the former - have you tried asking him directly? I bet he'd be willing to share.
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote: > I saw this tweet today [1] about a Wikipedia nearby mashup [2]. I was > interested to see that they use a Wikipedia geonames api. Do we think > this is because the geodata api has not been well enough advertised or > could it possibly be something to do with the > simplicity/documentation/additional output of the api? > > Sample api queries/outputs: [3] and [4] > > [1] https://twitter.com/edsu/status/326436210144866304 > [2] http://inkdroid.org/ici/#lat=37.7867&lon=-122.3995 > [3] > http://api.geonames.org/findNearbyWikipediaJSON?lat=51&lng=1&radius=10&username=wikimedia&maxRows=10 > [4] > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&list=geosearch&gscoord=51%7C1&gsradius=10000&gsnamespace=0 > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > -- Arthur Richards Software Engineer, Mobile [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687
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