de.monarchy.guideme.pois.wikipedia
Class WikipediaProvider

java.lang.Object
  de.monarchy.guideme.pois.wikipedia.WikipediaProvider

All Implemented Interfaces:

POIProvider

public class WikipediaProvider
extends java.lang.Object
implements POIProvider

WikipediaProvider is a POIProvider implementation for wikipedia articles. It uses a webservice by geonames.com for its purposes. As the webservice states, wikipedia articles in over 240 languages can be obtained. for that, the user has to choose one particular language at instantiation time.

Author:

dstuerze

Constructor Summary

WikipediaProvider()

Method Summary

POI[]

receivePOIs(GeoCoordinate where, int radius, java.lang.String what) This method is called by anyone who wants to receive points of interest in a certain radius around a specified location.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

WikipediaProvider

public WikipediaProvider()

Method Detail

receivePOIs

public POI[] receivePOIs(GeoCoordinate where,
                         int radius,
                         java.lang.String what)

Description copied from interface: POIProvider

This method is called by anyone who wants to receive points of interest in a certain radius around a specified location.

Specified by:

receivePOIs in interface POIProvider

Parameters:

where - central point of search

radius - distance in metres around this spot

what - specification of what to search (optional)

Returns:

array of POIs