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) >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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] >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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