I imagine that if someone's in London they're much more likely to be interested in finding a place to see or to eat at rather than to find a next city for their trip. Unless all their touristic goals consist of putting check marks near city names in a looong list:)
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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