Max, is there a bug/story card to track our work on this? --tomasz
On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Monte Hurd <mh...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > I spent a while today trying to figure out why the app's Nearby didn't seem > to be very accurately determining the angle between the device and the > article's geo coords. > > Angles seemed to be off by strange amounts depending on how close I was to > an article's supposed location. > > I believe I found the problem. Run the query below and you'll see the result > for Wikimedia Foundation: > > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&colimit=1&format=jsonfm&generator=geosearch&ggscoord=37.786816%7C-122.399254&ggslimit=1&ggsradius=10000&pilimit=1&pithumbsize=144&prop=coordinates%7Cpageimages%7Cpageterms&wbptterms=description > > The API result says the foundation's coordinates are: > 37.787, -122.4 > > But if you look at the article on desktop it says the Foundation's > coordinate are: > 37.78697, -122.399677 > > You can see what's happening. > > Can we make the API not degrade the coordinates? Super quick fix? (Or is > there some extra parameter I should be using?) > > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > _______________________________________________ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l