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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's very American that one of the pages nearby me is a well known mass shooting.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I guess you live on the US. Most of America doesn't have this problem

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Correct, I only use American for the US because I don't think there's a term like "Mexican" or "Canadian" for the US other than "American". US-ican or United States-ican doesn't quite roll off the tongue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Mexico actually refers to themselves as the United States of Mexico. Fun fact…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Shame you can't manually input a location (not only for privacy, but for tourists and visitors who might want to plan ahead)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

On OsmAnd, go to configure map and enable Wikipedia. All articles with location are visible.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago

I love OsmAnd so I purchased the OsmAnd+, I highly recommend

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is how you can get offline Wikipedia articles for OSM. Great when traveling.

You can, for example, read articles about things you pass in a plane, train, auto, or bike. Without internet.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Do you mind to elaborate?

Because the post is for Wikipedia website, which is online

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In OsmAnd you can download map data for use offline. In the same download page for thr map data there's also a download for Wikipedia data.

Download data is per country, so someone just bundled all the articles that have GPS coordinates withing the bounds of each country, and you can download all those articles for offline use in the OsmAnd app.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago

Thank you very much.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The place where I live

The lake I visited once

Two churches

A 14th century battle

A museum

A concentration camp

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's not too great a puzzle, as you're having your nations flag in your user name, but...

Kaunas?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

Kaunas would have way more stuff around. :)

I live in a middle of historically significant nowhere.