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Show Articles in Map
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Show articles from Wikipedia near a given location in an interactive map.
Opens the official F-Droid page
About Show Articles in Map
Note: You must also install Location Map Viewer to display the results.
This app adds the option Show Articles in Map to any app that can shown/send/share a geo location or geo-uri .
This app hooks into the android system to intercept "view geo-uri". When getting a geo-uri it asks
encyclopedia wikipedia (or travelguide wikivoyage or knowledgebase wikidata or photogallery wikimedia)
and shows the results in
Location Map Viewer
(or in any other installed app that understands the format 'kmz').
Location Map Viewer shows a map with bubbles (or article-icons if enabled/available) for every wikipedia article found.
If you click on a bubble you get a popup with a short article description and a button that links to the full article.
Here are some f-droid apps that are compatible with Show Articles in Map
navigation: OsmAnd ,
public transportation: Transportr or oeffi
translate postal address to geo Acastus Photon
Share your current position LocationShare or My Position
Required Android Permissions:
INTERNET: to download article data from wikipedia or wikivoyage Server
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What's new in v1.6
v1.6 (6) * #7 Added support for 📷 commons.wikimedia.org (i.e. gallery of photos) * #8 Added support for 🔬 www.wikidata.org (Knowledgebase) * #9 Added button "share" (i.e. share generated kmz to "save as local file")
How to install Show Articles in Map
- Tap Download — the app's official page on F-Droid opens.
- Install it with the F-Droid app (recommended, for automatic updates), or use the download button on that page.
- If Android asks, allow the F-Droid app or your browser to install apps, then tap Install.
- Open Show Articles in Map from your app drawer.




