They will be gone with Solr (or its schema, ro be precise).
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Tomasz Finc <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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