I'm saying there is use cases for both. I would expect a site wide nearby feature to help me discover new places nearby that I should visit (Wikivoyage even has a 'Go next' section which does this)
When I'm in a place, on the page itself I would like to be able to see map that helps me explore a city and find places to eat. On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Max Semenik <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- 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
