Answer the question: where am I?

[Tristramg]

When looking at a map, it would be nice to know what I am looking at.

I see two possible approaches for now:

By viewport

The area that covers the largest % of the screen (and less that 90%, otherwise it would always display « Europe »).

This requires that one displays a map, which is not always the case.

A geocoder that allows to search a restaurant needs to know where the restaurant is.

The nice thing is that it would show Central Park instead of Manhattan.

By a tag on the administrative level

It could be computed from the size instead of the administrative level. This would allow to handle differently Tokyo (2100km²) and Paris (100km²).

This tag could be attached to profile of who is asking.

[antoine-de]

It's really a good question, but do you think it's part of Cosmogony ?
Shouldn't this be more a geocoder question ?

I'm definitely motivated to dig more this question though

[Tristramg]

Well, it depends some information must be added on the ontology.

We probably have an 🥚 🐔 situation to know if it required.

[nlehuby]

@Tristramg we now have a tool to explore the cosmogony. Do you want to try to implement this feature in this tool ?