Talk:GeoHack

Google Maps
Is there a reason why Google Maps is much more highlighted than the other competitors?? --84.44.177.118 18:00, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
 * On English Wikipedia (Discussion) they thought it was too hard to find it in the list. I had suggested other ways of highlighting it but they opted for the simplest solution.  There was some debate over using Google Maps or OpenStreetMaps (CC license).  Dispenser 13:36, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
 * We have to get rid of this proprietary Google sh*t. I see no reason why to have a big "View this location in Google Maps" headline at the top of the English GeoHack page... OSM or other free mapping project should have such a headline there!!!--Kozuch 17:34, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
 * It was added by netbook users who found it too cumbersome to scroll down. I suspect there is a bais towards the top of the page, as evidenced by the high click rate of acme.  Note, that Google Maps is four times more popular than its nearest competitor Bing.  And for street maps, it is 20 times more popular than OpenStreetMaps (using the new top links number).    Dispenser 01:10, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

#ob_start('ob_gzhandler');
I'm having trouble with this part of geohack.php


 * 1) include "../common.php" ;
 * 2) ob_start('ob_gzhandler');

This causes the following error.

PHP Warning: ob_start [ref.outcontrol]: output handler 'ob_gzhandler' conflicts with 'zlib output compression' in /home/content/x/x/x/xxx/html/GeoHack/geohack.php on line 10

This is self explanatory, but is there a way to eliminate the use of ob_gzhandler from Geohack? This line doesn't allow the use of zlib.output_compression or ZEND. Great, Geohack gets compressed, but not the rest of the wiki.--Cojoilustrado 18:46, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
 * This issue was solved. Geohack requires allow_url_fopen ON. We had it off as per Mediwiki's security recommendation. --Cojoilustrado 20:07, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, something else. We kept getting this message:

output handler 'ob_gzhandler' conflicts with 'zlib output compression' in /home/content/c/o/j/cojoilustrado/html/GeoHack/geohack.php on line 10

We # the ob_gzhandler mention in Geohack and it went away. Only God knows what else we broke now :( --Cojoilustrado 20:38, 24 December 2009 (UTC)


 * It is the "one liner" to enable gzip compression, your server may not support mod_gzip interface. See How to enable gzip compression with Php. Dispenser 19:56, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

enwiki GeoTemplate edits unnoticed
This edit has not propagated from w:en:Template:GeoTemplate to http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php after 4½ days.

Also, there is an unanswered suggestion at w:en:Template talk:GeoTemplate from June 2010.

— Richardguk 00:54, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Seems like there is quite a delay in propagating... maybe it is even done manually. Unfortunatelly no docs mention it. --Kozuch 06:48, 15 September 2010 (UTC)


 * The delay is on Wikimedia Foundation's side, their squid servers are not properly flushing after an edit. Although, it was better before the fix for the vector roll-out.  Dispenser 01:14, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

transcluding enwiki mainpage
I just discovered that http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php appears to be somehow transcluding the main page of enwiki. Please look into this. --70.36.159.31 22:24, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Never mind. The problem has gone away. --70.36.159.31 22:30, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Localization of OpenStreetMap page
Hello, how can I get a localized version of the project=osm page displayed. E.g. if I got to I'd like to have a different template (in French) called. I tried http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:GeoTemplate/osm/fr but it does not seem to work. Thanks. Nakor 21:02, 29 September 2010 (UTC)


 * We initially intended the sub-pages to be used for other planets. The project= implementation probably wasn't as well thought out as it should have been.  I'll give the code a closer look.   Dispenser 02:15, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Ordnance Survey
Re the resource used by en:template:OS coord (and similar on several other wikis) which is currently at toolserver.org/~rhaworth/os/coor_g.php. Since it is written in PHP, I would like to move it to /~geohack/ and modify it so that it includes geohack.php instead of redirecting to it.

Could you please: a) point me to the current source code for geohack.php and the other modules and b) advise me of the installation procedure. &mdash; RHaworth 13:27, 16 February 2011 (UTC)


 * The geohack.php source code is in the SVN repository and instructions on this page. I can either commit it myself or file a JIRA request to add you as a maintainer after which you could commit it you're self.  But please have a clear plan for eventual integration.   Dispenser 19:54, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Please file a request to add me as a maintainer but, initially, I shall ask you or someone else to approve any changes before I commit them. RHaworth 21:13, 22 February 2011 (UTC)