This article focuses on some mobile services/applications that provide location aware Wikipedia articles for geographic objects located physically near you based on your GPS, Wifi or GSM Cellular position. This is possible since many Wikipedia articles are now geotagged with the latitude and longitude of the object for which the content is written.

+ Wikinear

Wikinear is a mobile/web service that shows you a list of the five Wikipedia pages that are geographically closest to your current location. This site pulls your location information using the recently launched Fire Eagle Beta API and displays articles on points of interest such as cities, towns and villages, buildings, tourist spots, etc, optimized for mobile phone screens.

+ Geopedia

Geopedia is a beta application for jailbroken Apple iPhones that uses GSM Cellular positioning to pull geographically related articles from Wikipedia. Once installed, you need to open GeoPedia and refresh it to get the latest geotagged Wikipedia feeds for your location. Users can browsed the location-customized list of articles that GeoPedia returns and then navigate to articles of interest to learn more. As your location changes, simply refresh GeoPedia and the feed will update. Click here to download GeoPedia for Apple iPhone.

+ GPS Sightfinder

GPS Sightfinder is a Windows Mobile application that looks for all kinds of geographic objects such as towns and villages, rivers and lakes, buildings, tourist sites, landmarks and other interesting places close to your physical location and returns descriptive search results with text and pictures from corresponding Wikipedia articles for detailed, up-to-date information. Search results are presented in a list, along with their distance from your location and a short summary. From there, you can start browsing referenced Wikipedia articles.