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?) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mobile-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > >
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