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What is here

Wikipedia articles about the places in the current view: battles, buildings, wrecks, volcanoes.

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What it shows

Wikipedia articles about the places in the current view: battles, buildings, wrecks, volcanoes. It follows the map, so panning to a new area loads what is written about that area.

Where the data comes from

English Wikipedia geosearch API; queried for the view each time the map stops moving.

Reading the map

Each yellow dot is a Wikipedia article about that exact place.

Units Articles (no measured quantity).

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