Wikipedia off-line
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A pretty useful feature of the app "osmand" is to
- search off-line in implemented/downloaded and georeferenced wikipedia articles,
- show nearby wikipedia articles for each (tapped) point an the map.
Is there a way to achieve a similar functionality in Locus being able to jump to off-line wiki articles near a selected/searched point?
I like this idea 
Good day nicky,
offiline access to wikipedia articles is not currently supported by Locus Map application. We were already internally discuss about offline wikipedia articles (in Asamm team), but in the end we weren't sure if users will appreciate it.
Anyway I've changed your question to idea, so others may vote.
Good day nicky,
offiline access to wikipedia articles is not currently supported by Locus Map application. We were already internally discuss about offline wikipedia articles (in Asamm team), but in the end we weren't sure if users will appreciate it.
Anyway I've changed your question to idea, so others may vote.
Hi Menion,
you and I had this topic many months ago (http://forum.locusmap.eu/index.php?topic=5137.msg43196#msg43196).
You do not need to manage offline Wikipedia as such. Both, Aard2 and Kiwix do this job. Locus has to submit a meaningful query to them.
The "nearby" aspect you currently have implemented needs internet access. I think it's worth while working with the providers of Aard2 and Kiwix to make THEM build a feature that answers queries "give me all items that are near coordinate x,y, radius z". (I would hope Locus should cycle through z = 500m, 1km, 10km, 100km, is there are not enough matches.) Wikipedia does have the coordinates in some exposed filed, to their tools have easier access to it than you.
Cheers
Michael
Hi Menion,
you and I had this topic many months ago (http://forum.locusmap.eu/index.php?topic=5137.msg43196#msg43196).
You do not need to manage offline Wikipedia as such. Both, Aard2 and Kiwix do this job. Locus has to submit a meaningful query to them.
The "nearby" aspect you currently have implemented needs internet access. I think it's worth while working with the providers of Aard2 and Kiwix to make THEM build a feature that answers queries "give me all items that are near coordinate x,y, radius z". (I would hope Locus should cycle through z = 500m, 1km, 10km, 100km, is there are not enough matches.) Wikipedia does have the coordinates in some exposed filed, to their tools have easier access to it than you.
Cheers
Michael
As for now a work-around to this is to share a searched/selected point from Locus to Osmand and show the description and nearby wiki aritcles in osmand.
But it'd be of course a much more "clean" solution to have such a thing directly in locus and not to have to make all those steps and switch forth and back ;)
Also listen by audio!
When you are at a new place you do not want to read about this place, you want to see the place and listen about it.
An "extension" to be able to directly listen to the selected wiki article by (bluetooth) audio - without having to copy/paste the text to a TTS-Reader - would round the thing up :)
As for now a work-around to this is to share a searched/selected point from Locus to Osmand and show the description and nearby wiki aritcles in osmand.
But it'd be of course a much more "clean" solution to have such a thing directly in locus and not to have to make all those steps and switch forth and back ;)
Also listen by audio!
When you are at a new place you do not want to read about this place, you want to see the place and listen about it.
An "extension" to be able to directly listen to the selected wiki article by (bluetooth) audio - without having to copy/paste the text to a TTS-Reader - would round the thing up :)
@nicky, I can us my offline Wikipedia "nearly offline" with Locus, today. Only the DB lookup from WikiLocation needs network access, and the amount of data is minimal. When you scroll down to the Wikipedia link, tapping it goes to my Aard2, opening the arcticle in the language I chose for my initial search.
Not perfect, but I trust Menion will sort it over time.
Funny enough Kiwix is NOT offered as an alternative to Aard2. If you have enough space: Kiwix can also deal with offline images. Without images, the SLOB format is a bit more compact than the ZIM format, I have seen, not much, tough.
@nicky, I can us my offline Wikipedia "nearly offline" with Locus, today. Only the DB lookup from WikiLocation needs network access, and the amount of data is minimal. When you scroll down to the Wikipedia link, tapping it goes to my Aard2, opening the arcticle in the language I chose for my initial search.
Not perfect, but I trust Menion will sort it over time.
Funny enough Kiwix is NOT offered as an alternative to Aard2. If you have enough space: Kiwix can also deal with offline images. Without images, the SLOB format is a bit more compact than the ZIM format, I have seen, not much, tough.
PS: I opened a ticket in the Kiwix forum. In second post asked for geo coordinate search fetaure.
PS: I opened a ticket in the Kiwix forum. In second post asked for geo coordinate search fetaure.
Emmanuel answered lightning fast:
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This will be in Kiwix 2.3 for Android... and later in other ports.
[feature-requests:#1006] Implement geo coordinate search
Status: open
Group: v1.0
Created: Thu Mar 02, 2017 06:41 PM UTC by Michael Bechtold
Last Updated: Thu Mar 02, 2017 06:41 PM UTC
Owner: nobody
Hi team,
Wikipedia as such seems to manage geo coordinates (at least they are presented separately top right).
Yet, Kiwix does not seem to support geo coordinate search. It would be
great to allow a query like "get me all articles that are in radius z
around point x,y".
It would be an extension to the indexing you do anyway, I guess.
TXs and cheers
Michael
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This will make life much easier in the Locus world, hopefully.
Emmanuel answered lightning fast:
======================================
This will be in Kiwix 2.3 for Android... and later in other ports.
[feature-requests:#1006] Implement geo coordinate search
Status: open
Group: v1.0
Created: Thu Mar 02, 2017 06:41 PM UTC by Michael Bechtold
Last Updated: Thu Mar 02, 2017 06:41 PM UTC
Owner: nobody
Hi team,
Wikipedia as such seems to manage geo coordinates (at least they are presented separately top right).
Yet, Kiwix does not seem to support geo coordinate search. It would be
great to allow a query like "get me all articles that are in radius z
around point x,y".
It would be an extension to the indexing you do anyway, I guess.
TXs and cheers
Michael
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This will make life much easier in the Locus world, hopefully.
Great idea. Also would be nice to be able to show wikipedia entries as POI. Useful when exploring new area.
Great idea. Also would be nice to be able to show wikipedia entries as POI. Useful when exploring new area.
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