Plugin for Location Map Viewer: Show articles near a given geographic location in an interactive map from
- Wikipedia™ (The Free Encyclopedia that anyone can edit) or
- Wikivoyage™ (Free travel guide that anyone can edit) or
- Wikimedia™ (Free Fotos, Vidio, Audo collections) or
- Wikidata™ (knowledge base that anyone can edit).
Uscase: Suppose you are going on holiday. Your navigation app shows you a geo-map with your hotel and you want to know: what is near this place that has an article in wikipedia.
In your navigation app select "view in external app" (or "send location to" or "share location with" or ...) choose "Show Articles in Map" and you will get a map with marks for articles. If you click on a mark you get a small popup with the article summary and a link to the wikipedia article.
Some en.wikipedia.org articles from Berlin, Germany
You can get geo-infos from these opensource apps
- navigation: OsmAnd,
- public transportation: Transportr or oeffi
- geo-caching c:geo
- translate postal address to geo Acastus Photon
- Share your current position LocationShare or My Position
- and probably many others.......
If you select view + "Show Articles in Map" from a geo app you will see the settings page:
- (6) In the message area you see the current geo-location "Berlin Germany (52.51,13.35)" where the articles are near by.
- (1) shows the current service "en.wikipedia.org" where the geo-data is taken from. You can
- (1) edit the service or
- use (2) to pick one from the history of the last used services or
- (3) pick one of the 93 bigger known services
- (4) If you enable "Load symbols/images" you get an image belonging for every article (if available in wikipedia) that will be shown in the map and the popup.
- Loading images will slow downloading the articles and increase the used internet bandwidth.
- (5) If you enable "Do not show this dialog again" then getting articles will be done without this settings dialog.
- (7) If you press the "View" button the app will start loading data from current service (1) "en.wikipedia.org" that is near the current location (6) (Berlin Germany (52.51,13.35).
- In the (6) message area you can see what the app does
- Downloading...
- Analysing...
- Saving to file ...
- Finally you get the result.
(3) pick one of the 95 bigger known services
(2) to pick one from the history of the last used services
Technically speaking the AndroidGeo2ArticlesMap app
- hooks into the android system for view/send/share events for geographic coordinates (also known as geo: - uri),
- asks wikipedia for article infos near this location,
- translates the articles found into a standardformat (kmz )
- and asks android to show the generated kmz file
- The result is shown in Location Map Viewer (or any other installed app that understands kmz)
AndroidGeo2ArticlesMap and Location Map Viewer Copyright (c) by k3b, Licensed under GPL, Version 3.0 or later.
Wikipedia, Wikimedia, Wikidata and Wikivoyage are trademarks of the Wikimedia Foundation
If you like this app please consider to donating to http://donate.openstreetmap.org/ .
Since android-developping is a hobby (and an education tool) i donot want any money for my apps so donation should go to projects i benefit from.