Craig, I recently ran across this tool: https://wikishootme.toolforge.org/
Which (somehow) does what you're looking for—I'm not sure exactly how it works, but the source is available on BitBucket: https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/wikishootme Hopefully that's useful! – Tyler On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 12:58 PM Craig Talbert <[email protected]> wrote: > Related question if anyone here knows -- > > I take a lot of photos for Colorado articles (and areas I visit). I find > most of them using Special:Nearby > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby>. > > This will give you something like everything within 10 kilometers or the > 50 nearest articles. > > I'd really like to more easily access data for this purpose. Some use > cases being: > > (1) If I'm going on a road trip, are there places within some number of > kilometers near the road that I could stop by a photograph? > > (2) Given any area that I'm at, what are the nearest unphotographed > articles (e.g. further than 10km away). > > (3) If there's more than 50 places, can I see all of them within a range? > > It doesn't look like this is possible using the API, without doing some > custom scripting that makes multiple API location queries? e.g. as it's > shown here: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Nearby_places_viewer > > Is that true? > > It seems like to get all articles I'd need to export coordinates for > articles separately and make my own search. Which I'd rather now do. > > - Craig > > On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 10:48 AM Pharos <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Wiki-Coloradans, >> >> Wanted to share this project from the North Carolina usergroup, if you >> might want to do something along similar lines: >> >> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/North_Carolina_Wikipedians/wikipixNC22 >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaign:WikiPixNC >> >> Thanks, >> Richard >> (User:Pharos) >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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