Wonder if this is related to the biological phenomena of humans tending to care more about humans who resemble themselves than those who don't (homophily)

Meanwhile if someone lives in a city they'll get loads of results.

EDIT: actually this is just a wrapper around wikipedia's nearby feature I think. I tried a couple of places and they give identical results.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby#/coord/15.90721...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby

I might be pendantic here (for reasons you find in my profile), but this isnt a "half hour walk" and it is just a 3 km radius around the location, i.e. as the crow flies and rivers or walls are ignored. A real half hour walk would be an isochrone for a walking profile ;)

It's cool, but a bit sad, to discover establishments that used to exist nearby but don't any longer. It's not easy to do that otherwise.

Then post on location specific subreddits. Folks will eat this up.

I had an idea a while back to gather audio recordings of people telling stories of their adventures in my area (Alaska) and placing them on a map, with the arbitrary restriction that you have to physically go to the place the story happened to unlock it. It works, and I think its pretty cool, but also found it takes a TON of time meeting with people, recording, cleaning up the audio... after about 100 stories I slowed down on the project. But if anyone here lives in Alaska, you can listen to these stories (mobile app only) for free at https://loremaps.io/app. Someday I hope to get back to it.

I live somewhere pretty remote, and every article it suggests is an entry for a nearby village, which is usually a sentence long. There are other interesting things nearby: could it have some kind of variance function, so it looks specifically for a variety of content?

Here I am, seeing something cool and immediately asking for changes. Spirit of the internet ;) Genuinely, it is a wonderful idea, and I admire the concept and that you did it.

I'm working on something similar! Open World, an app that turns collecting nearby Wikipedia places into a game! [1]

It started with you having to go to the place IRL to unlock the article/story, mostly so you find cool spots out on a walk. But slowly I discovered that most people go on walks somewhat rarely, so now it also includes a virtual Fast-Travel system using Apple Maps LookAround :)

Oh, also a 3D map of the different neighbourhoods of a city to unlock one a time, plus narrative Quests to complete with the secrets you found, ...

Local History is fun!!

[1] https://openworldapp.xyz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Houghton

https://youtu.be/0MWnSKDsURg

Is that home just coincidentally near the geometric center of the geographic region the feature is named after?

If this were the kind of thing that caught on and became wildly popular I'd be concerned about it misdirecting people to private property.

When I visit a new city I usually spend time poking around Google Maps to discover points of interest nearby, but this will be another useful resource. Thanks!

https://apps.apple.com/hk/app/inquire-wikipedia-around-you/i...

Speed to load, the specific use case I want which is just to load up near me and see a performant map I can browse.

The other links were either projects, games, or apps that did the same with older map projections that performed poorly for me.

https://wikinewsie.toolforge.org/en/portal/california

https://wikinewsie.toolforge.org/en/portal/europe

From today's featured article:

Dirt

Nearest to you:

Missing sock

Wilson the volleyball

Gut microbiome

Depression

Ants

Overdue bill

Serial killer

https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/?w=Fairlight%2C_New_South_...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkiYy0i8FtA

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regiowiki

Filtering is all nice, but for a truly local wiki you should get different relevance criteria and different licensing criteria, to be able to negotiate citing local more recent sources.

A fun way to find articles nearby that need photographs is Wikishootme - https://wikishootme.toolforge.org/ (although it seems to be offline at the moment).

As all points are within a small radius, these description are very redundant.

Right now it seems that it simply removes links for stuff without a geotag that's nearby. But many articles are in fact nearby and are simply missing geotags, or perhaps encompass a slightly larger area where only a part of it is close by. Also, all the pictures don't have working links so I can't click on a picture to make it bigger.

turns out, it just filters existing wikipedia articles based on their proximity to a given coordinate.

https://tamper.io/inquire/

Been around over 20 years

Now getting this info as easily navigable webpages is amazing.

Interesting failure mode, but I like the concept overall.

(although I guess the German Wikipedia would have a bit more content than the English Wikipedia used here)

Found an abbey around my place in Western Bavaria I didn't know existed

I discovered something rightout near me that I wasnt aware of!:)

(It could be fun to have an AI populate the db)

... that 7 Eccles Street was a row house in Dublin, Ireland?

I mean, as the name, and the fact that it is a _row house_ (though, also, it's weird that the article, and I checked, it's like that in the real Wikipedia too, calls it that; they're usually called terraced houses here), indicates that, well, there were a few of them. It's actually notable because it's where Leopold Bloom lives in Ulysses.

0.8 miles

Ok great I thought that I can walk...

however, it is actually 1.9 miles when walking according to Google Maps and the path lacks sidewalks.

should probably use local language wikipedia? english is rather bare-bones for my area

Edit: others have pointed out https://wiki-map.com/, which is way better.

Has local language too.

... that A is a commune in the X department in western France?

... that B is a commune in the X department in western France?

... that C is a commune in the X department in western France?

... that D is a commune in the X department in western France?

... that E is a commune in the X department in western France?

... that F is a commune in the X department in western France?

Yes, I knew. They're all nearby communes. If I go in any direction, I can't miss them.

The first thing that pops up for my city of Malmö is the school stabbing that happened in 2022. They're so rare here, and yet Wikipedia felt I just had to see it.

I'm not going to make stupid feature requests, but it would be cool with a filter for types of Wikipedia articles to show.

It shows all Wikipedia articles on a zoomable map. The size of the labels depends on its pagerank score and the pageview statistics.

https://grokipedia.com