Plugin for Location Map Viewer: Show articles from Wikipedia™ or Wikivoyage™ near a given geographic location in an interactive map.
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 ( or wikivoyage ).
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.
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.......
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 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.
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