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Provide geolocation search in API
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Once we've got a standard storage for geographic coordinates, we need to expose that in an API search so it can be used in a definitive way by handheld apps and other goodies.

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Severity: enhancement

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 10:16 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-extensions-GIS.
• bzimport set Reference to bz15955.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• brion created this task.Oct 12 2008, 6:36 PM
Catrope added a comment.Oct 13 2008, 5:34 PM

Is this information even stored in the database? If it's not, this can't be done efficiently.

Reedy added a comment.Feb 9 2012, 11:08 PM

Isn't this now done with the extension Max has written?

• brion added a comment.Feb 9 2012, 11:52 PM

Should be, though it's still in progress as I understand.

Kelson added a comment.Oct 24 2014, 3:26 PM

Seems to work now, for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=geosearch&gsradius=10000&gscoord=37.786971|-122.399677

• brion closed this task as Resolved.Jan 20 2015, 7:49 PM
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData

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