https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78715

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Max Semenik <mseme...@wikimedia.org>
wrote:
>
> Investigating this ATM...
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Tomasz Finc <tf...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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?)
>> >
>> >
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