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So this must only work in urban/metro areas. In my rural area, it's just a map of incorporated townships, and I know there are historical things in this area that are on wikipedia.



In my metro area it's mostly just articles about specific buildings which is interesting if you're a building nerd, not so much if you're not. On an imaginary notability scale, they'd all be on the bottom rung meeting just the minimum to be included in Wikipedia.

Next steps on this kind of thing would be to classify the nearby items and then give them a score for how interesting they were.

For example, one of the items:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th-8th_Street_&_Nicollet_stat...

This is a bus station. I have no idea why a bus station meets the qualifications to be included in Wikipedia in the first place, but it's definitely not an "interesting place nearby".


From what I can tell, it includes any article that has been tagged with coordinates:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geograph...




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