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.

Accepted to-do's
Items that have strikethrough have been completed/fixed.

New features

 * Added strict parameter validation.


 * Added smart 'autopanzoom' like control for Google Maps and Yahoo! Maps.


 * Added internationalization to the OSM service, and an extra parameter to define per-map languages.


 * Static map support, similar and based upon SlippyMap.

Refactoring

 * Rewrite the parameter handling to be more centralized and modular.
 * Make it possible to override the info of parameters for mapping services, including their aliases, default values and criteria.
 * Make it possible to add and override parameters in each segment of Maps, instead of only the mapping services.


 * Cleaned up and centralized parser function code.


 * Refactored the marker specific data handling code in every display point class up to a central location.


 * Removed backward compatibility (to 0.2.x and earlier) of the earth parameter.


 * Removed support for Google Map API map type names for Google Maps.


 * Added code to unload any services from the service hook that are not present in the list of allowed services. This ensures they don't get initialized, and makes any check to see if the service is one of the allowed ones further on unneeded.


 * Added checks for extension dependencies that need to be present for Maps to be initialized.


 * Lessen code execution. Initialized only required code depending on the feature and service used, and implement caching where possible.


 * Big overhaul of the JavaScript. Currently the code is badly structured, not optimal for performance, and scattered over several files (which is bad for page load times).

Bug fixes

 * Fix issue causing the pan and drag around functionality on Yahoo! Maps maps not to work for some wiki installations.

Documenting

 * Created screencast demonstrating display_map usage.


 * Create screencast demonstrating display_point usage.


 * Update the developer documentation about hooking into Maps to be useful for the current version.

New features

 * Ability to add custom base layers (with images) for OpenLayers. example, example


 * Functionality similar to Tetherless Map (list of points next to maps). Example.

New features

 * Display_route parser function, to auto generate routes


 * Bing Maps (formerly called Virtual Earth) support


 * Mapstraction support


 * KML support for Google Earth


 * KML support for Open Layers


 * Google Earth moon/mars/skye support (3D)


 * Street view support for Google Maps


 * Google Maps API v3 support


 * Allow for complex wiki-text in the title and label parameters, such as being able to specify parameters for an image. This is now not possible cause Maps can not determine if a parameter separator (|) is coming from one of it's parser function, or a nested one.


 * Client side marker grouping. Example. Article.

Bug fixes

 * Fix issues with postcode support.


 * Marker popups in Yahoo! Maps show up with a white background under them (probably a CSS issue) -Yaron


 * Strange behavior with the Bing Maps base layer in OpenLayers - when it's the default layer, it shows points in the wrong place, and when it's not, it doesn't show anything when selected - see the last two maps here. -Yaron

Turned down proposals

 * Scrolling up and down the page with the arrow keys also scrolls the map, for Yahoo! Maps (it doesn't do this for Google Maps or OpenLayers).

- Yaron

This is not really a bug I guess, just part of the Yahoo! API. I you set autoszoom=off, the hotkey stuff will also be disabled. I'm going to have a look if scroll wheel zoom and key controls can be set individually for 0.3 though.

- Jeroen De Dauw 18:02, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

The Yahoo! API does not allow turning that off/on separately from the scroll wheel zoom. So that issue can't be fixed.

- Jeroen De Dauw 23:14, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

New proposals

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


 * Add based syntaxis for the parser functions - Jeroen De Dauw 22:48, 23 July 2009 (UTC)


 * General zoom level system: one zoom level scale for all services. This would make it easier for users to get the hang of the zoom levels, and would not affect the zoom when changing the service parameter. However, this would not allow backward compatibility, by affecting the zoom of all maps using one of the current zoom scales. Even if this is a good idea, there needs to be voted for the scale system to use. - Jeroen De Dauw 01:43, 24 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Add support for optional Directions controls (From here - To here) or any parameter to facilitate generating directions to or from a location on the map. Directions could be generated in a new view, not necessarily on the embedded map, although that would be a nice addition. - Laurent Alquier 11:50, 03 August 2009

Can you provided a link to an example?

-Jeroen De Dauw 20:36, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Did you mean something similar to this?

-Jeroen De Dauw 21:55, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

How about having custom marker icons? Also having a flexible width?

--Jhoogy 04:44, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Maps already allows custom marker icons. A flexible size for the map might be neat to have, but won't be done by me any time soon.

--Jeroen De Dauw 08:43, 27 October 2009 (UTC)