A Google Streetview / Wikipedia Mashup

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by dansingerman • 16 years ago

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stewsnooze2• 16 years ago

I notice that the wikipedia links are fairly accurate. The foursquare ones are obviously less accurate as they allow any old guy to add a bar and there isn't obviously the same amount of fact checking going on in the foursquare arena.

dansingerman3• 16 years ago

That is true. One of the reasons why I didn't add similar 'friendly' URLs to Foursquare locations.

Potter2• 16 years ago

I like the idea. Unfortunately the 'Empire State Building' page takes me to a particularly rural part of Algeria.

dansingerman3• 16 years ago

Really? It works for me with http://geosay.com/#!wikipediastreetview=http://en.wikipedia....

Rural Algeria is probably our default location (30,0) as that is what makes some sense when the map is zoomed out - you should only get that if we can't locate you in any way, but it also sounds like the wikipedia thing is not working. Can you post browser/ OS, etc please?

bambax• 16 years ago

I was also in the middle of Morocco the first time I tried. Then it worked.

I think what happens is, the first time you go to geosay you have to allow the browser to give away your location; if you click on "search here" (bottom left) before having given this authorization, you land in Africa.

A simple fix could be to not show the "search here" link before the application has a real location...?

A Google Streetview / Wikipedia Mashup

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