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Answer the question: where am I?

Open Tristramg opened this issue 7 years ago • 3 comments

When looking at a map, it would be nice to know what I am looking at.

I see two possible approaches for now:

By viewport

The area that covers the largest % of the screen (and less that 90%, otherwise it would always display « Europe »).

This requires that one displays a map, which is not always the case.

A geocoder that allows to search a restaurant needs to know where the restaurant is.

The nice thing is that it would show Central Park instead of Manhattan.

By a tag on the administrative level

It could be computed from the size instead of the administrative level. This would allow to handle differently Tokyo (2100km²) and Paris (100km²).

This tag could be attached to profile of who is asking.

Tristramg avatar Jan 24 '18 22:01 Tristramg

It's really a good question, but do you think it's part of Cosmogony ? Shouldn't this be more a geocoder question ?

I'm definitely motivated to dig more this question though

antoine-de avatar Jan 25 '18 11:01 antoine-de

Well, it depends some information must be added on the ontology.

We probably have an :egg: :chicken: situation to know if it required.

Tristramg avatar Jan 25 '18 12:01 Tristramg

@Tristramg we now have a tool to explore the cosmogony. Do you want to try to implement this feature in this tool ?

nlehuby avatar Mar 01 '18 16:03 nlehuby