Extension:Maps/Future

Future work on Maps

Feel free to add new feature requests to the new proposals section. Please review the turned down proposals first. Adding your vote or objection to proposals will help determining which ones will get the priority. If you have any comments on the already accepted or turned down proposals, please add them to the talk page, but refer from adding them to the lists themselves.

New features

 * Centre parameter, that will allow you to set a custom map centre (different from the place where the marker will be put)


 * Multi geocoder support: creation of a system that allows to easilly add new geocoders to the extension, and allows the user to set a default one in the settings file, and also add a parameter for this selection to the geocoding functions


 * General zoom level system: one zoom level scale for all services


 * Open Street Maps support for OpenLayers

Refactoring

 * Major rewrite of the Google Maps and Yahoo! Maps code. The parser function classes should only print a call to a JS function with all needed parameters, which then does all the logic and creates the map.

New features

 * Bing Maps (formerly called Virtual Earth) support


 * Popups for the markers: adding of a markertext(?) parameter to allow the user to display some text in the popup


 * Display_route parser function, to auto generate routes


 * KML support for Google Earth


 * KML support for Open Layers

New proposals

 * Add some kind of custom root tool, like done by the Google Maps extension? vid - Bn2vs 01:30, 22 July 2009 (UTC)