I'm not sure we'd want to bring in secondary points - I can imagine the real use of Special:Nearby on Wikivoyage is for travellers who are looking for places to go to next that are nearby e.g. by train/bus. Somewhere like London would report Cambridge, Stonehenge or Oxford as being nearby even though they are 60+ miles apart.. yet currently it only shows 8 districts in London.
I imagine something like the in article Nearby pages that we currently have in beta would be a better vehicle for secondary points... Is there anyway we can guide a volunteer developer to do this and is anyone interested? I'd love to see this moved along and give WV the nearby it deserves. On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Max Semenik <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Actually my question is about further tweaking this... please reread my >> email. > > > D'oh! > > So the problem is not in radius but in what to display. > https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/mobile/cards/784 > discusses how geo search can be made more useful for WV. Our present Nearby > implementation that searches for primary coordinaes only is not helpful > because the wiki consists of large pages with a lot of POIs around. My > current work on porting to Elasticsearch would allow a sane spatial search > for secondary coordinates, once it's complete we can experiment with adding > a Wikiversity-specific mode for Nearby. With a lot of points around, there > should be no need to have a continent-sized radius. -- Jon Robson * http://jonrobson.me.uk * https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson * @rakugojon _______________________________________________ Mobile-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
