So are their any technical limitations to experiment with both right now? On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
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