Extension:Maps

shortcut: Maps

MediaWiki extensions manual

Maps Release status: stable
Implementation	Parser function, Tag
Description	Allows users to display maps and coordinate data using multiple mapping services.
Author(s)	Jeroen De Dauw and others
Latest version	3.0 (2014-01-18)
MediaWiki	1.18 or higher
PHP	>=5.3.2
Database changes	Yes
Composer	mediawiki/maps
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	GitHub: project page git repository URL [help] commit history README
Example	Maps examples
Hooks used LanguageGetMagic AdminLinks UnitTestsList
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The extension Maps enables your MediaWiki pages to visualize geographic data with dynamic, JavaScript-based mapping APIs such as Google Maps, OpenStreeMap, and OpenLayers in your wiki pages.

It has built-in support for geocoding, displaying maps, displaying markers and geospatial shapes, adding pop-ups, and more and allows extensive customization per map, or for all maps on your wiki.

Download and installation

See the installation instructions.

Usage

See Maps demos and check out the links provided in the external links section of this page.

Gallery of examples

Some screenshots of inline maps created using the display_map parser hook:

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External links

• Maps demos
• Blog of the author about Maps and Semantic Maps
• Maps display_map screencast
• Maps display_point screencast
• Powerpoint presentation about MediaWiki, SMW, Maps and Semantic Maps 0.5.3 used at a presentation in Gent, February 2010.
• Powerpoint presentation about Maps and Semantic Maps 0.4 used at Semantic MediaWiki Camp 2009.

Responsive Skins

The following needs to be added to "Mediawiki.Common.css" to made the maps show correctly in a responsive skin, e.g. the Foreground skin:

/* fix google maps little man in responsive skin */
.gm-style img {
    max-width: none;
}

The reason is that maps are being written directly as a div container and unfortunately the skin's CSS is the entire site for the img attribute.

See also

• Semantic Maps - Adds semantic capabilities on top of Maps
• YandexMaps - Adds support for yandex.com to Maps
• Validator - Needed by Maps
• Semantic Bundle - An extension bundle that includes Maps
• Semantic Result Formats - Various visualization formats for SMW
• MultiMaps - Allows users to display maps and coordinate data using multiple mapping services.

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