Investigating this ATM...

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Tomasz Finc <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Max, is there a bug/story card to track our work on this?
>
> --tomasz
>
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Monte Hurd <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I spent a while today trying to figure out why the app's Nearby didn't
> seem
> > to be very accurately determining the angle between the device and the
> > article's geo coords.
> >
> > Angles seemed to be off by strange amounts depending on how close I was
> to
> > an article's supposed location.
> >
> > I believe I found the problem. Run the query below and you'll see the
> result
> > for Wikimedia Foundation:
> >
> >
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&colimit=1&format=jsonfm&generator=geosearch&ggscoord=37.786816%7C-122.399254&ggslimit=1&ggsradius=10000&pilimit=1&pithumbsize=144&prop=coordinates%7Cpageimages%7Cpageterms&wbptterms=description
> >
> > The API result says the foundation's coordinates are:
> >       37.787, -122.4
> >
> > But if you look at the article on desktop it says the Foundation's
> > coordinate are:
> >       37.78697, -122.399677
> >
> > You can see what's happening.
> >
> > Can we make the API not degrade the coordinates? Super quick fix? (Or is
> > there some extra parameter I should be using?)
> >
> >
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