Thank you!

This is very close to what I'm looking for, and I think with some tweaks
will get me exactly what I wanted.

- Craig

On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 4:24 PM Tyler Cipriani <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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)
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