Extension:Google Geocoder

Google Geocoder extension adds parser functions to convert addresses to geographic coordinates using Google's Geocoding service.

This extension was developed by Sergey Chernyshev and sponsored by Semantic Communities, LLC.

Usage
To convert address to a geographic coordinates:

Returns pair of coordinates separated by comma: 55.755786,37.617633

To get just latitude or longitude, use  or   respecitively.

If result couldn't be found, empty value is returned (so it can be used with #if parser function, for example)

Download from SVN
To get code from Subversion, just type svn checkout http://mediawiki-google-geocoder.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ GoogleGeocoder

Configuration
To install this extension, add the following to LocalSettings.php:

Configuration parameters
To use extension, you must set your Google Maps Developer Key

Contributing code and widgets
If you would like to contribute patches or found some problems with the code, please send message to the discussion group: http://groups.google.com/group/semacomm-dev

Support
The best way to seek help with this extension is to send you questions to our Google group

http://groups.google.com/group/semacomm-dev

extension maintainer and active users and contributors are on this list and will be able to help you.

Sites using this extension

 * TechPresentations.org