mikemcc
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Hello Marc.
It would be great if we could use the "Find nearby Wikipedia Entries" service to find wikis within a quadrilateral - instead of merely within a bounding box.
I recognize that your API would have to make a more advanced query than a bounding box query but I imagine that would easy for Geonames ?
This would enable a script to find wikis within x km of a straight line in one hit without having to move gradually along the line doing a series of searches within x km of a point, which involves covering the same ground with up to 4 overlapping searches.
The quadrilateral would normally be a rectangle on both sides of the line being analyzed.
The Wikipedia Articles in Bounding Box service only does the same job if the line happens to be N-S or E-W.
I hope I haven't overlooked anything major. What do you think ?
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