Nearby is far the best and most exciting feature of the app! It should be improved! ;-)
*~Orsolya* 2016-02-01 19:36 GMT+01:00 Dmitry Brant <dbr...@wikimedia.org>: > Hi Andy, > > Glad to hear you're enjoying the feature! > It is indeed possible to look at nearby articles in other parts of the > world, but the only way to do it at the moment is to zoom out (by > pinching), scroll to the desired location, and zoom back in. > > I agree that this can be further refined. I'm afraid that enhancements to > the Nearby function aren't in our plans for this quarter, but we may > revisit it in the next quarter, or perhaps at an upcoming hackathon. :) > > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> > wrote: > >> I'm enjoying the "nearby" feature now that its been restored to the >> Android app; and especially looking forward to using it on an upcoming >> overseas trip. >> >> However, I don't seem to be able too use it, while at home, to look at >> other parts of the world. Is that possible? >> >> It could either be by scrolling or typing in the name of a far-flung >> place, or by tapping on the coordinates in a geo-tagged article. >> >> -- >> Andy Mabbett >> @pigsonthewing >> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mobile-l mailing list >> Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> > > > > -- > Dmitry Brant > Mobile Apps Team (Android) > Wikimedia Foundation > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering > > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > >
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