【實用旅遊app】WikiTraveller|最夯免費app-綠色工廠好玩App

WikiTraveller is intended to be a fun, interesting (and maybe useful) way of using Wikipedia. The user is encouraged to learn new things about the place where he lives, or about places where he travels to. It searches Wikipedia articles about nearby places in a radius of about 2 kilometers and displays them in a map as markers and also in a list of nearby places.

The corresponding article is displayed as a mobile Wikipedia page in a WebView, with the possibility of saving the article in the favorites list, or navigating to the specific location.

You can search Wikipedia by entering text or by voice search, and there is also the possibility of scanning QR codes generated by QRpedia. In order to scan QR codes, you are encouraged to install the QRDroid application (If you haven't done it already).

If you prefer to search for Wikipedia articles in another language than the default language of your device, you can choose your preferred language from 37 possible localizations, that are accessible through the "Wiki language" menu item.

- The articles about nearby places are found using Ben Dodson's REST-ful API - wikilocation.org.

- The thumbnail images are fetched from DBpedia.org by the corresponding article's name.

The data obtained from wikilocation.org is cached in an sqlite database and after a call to Wikilocation a geofence is constructed around the current position. New calls to Wikilocation are made automatically after the user exits the geofence, or after several days (if no geofence exit was recorded), though the user can also refresh the view by tapping the refresh icon.

THIS APPLICATION DOWNLOADS DATA FROM THE INTERNET. Please, bear that in mind when travelling abroad or if you have a limited data plan. The autor is not responsible for any increase of your mobile data bill when the application is used in data roaming or with a limited data plan.

WikiTraveller would not exist without the massive effort behind Wikipedia, DBpedia and Wikilocation projects. If you find this application or the data it provides useful, consider a donation to either (or all) of the projects. And you can buy me a beer if we meet some day :) Also, do not hesitate to rate WikiTraveller, and express your ideas of how to improve the app.