Help talk:Extension:Kartographer/Archive 1

Link title
The page says:
 * The link text can be set with the text attribute. Without the text attribute, the word "map" will be shown.

Will this word be shown in all languages?

Or can it be translated?

As far as I can see, there is not relevant translatable message in translatewiki.net, but I might be wrong.

Tagging User:CKoerner (WMF), user:MaxSem, User:Yurik.

Thanks. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 10:02, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Yup, that's not true, I've fixed it. Thanks! Max Semenik (talk) 19:58, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Localization
Hello! Is there a function to specify the map language (e.g. "name:de") or are just common "name"-tags to be used? --J budissin (talk) 07:54, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello, J budissin. At the moment the map shows location names in the language of the particular location. There is a task that looks to address allowing the language to be the user's preference. Is that what you're looking for? CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:42, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Decimals vs. DMS
Despite being created using decimals the map displays with a DMS caption. Is the latter configurable, please? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:59, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

Not 'alt'
I'm very concerned at the suggestion:

"Use for the link hint text."

This is likely to cause confusion with the "alt" attribute on images, which is for a text alternative to an image, for people who cannot see the image (blind people, people using text-only or audio interfaces, etc). In the example given here, the appropriate  attribute might be something like "the Exploratorium is on 21st and 8th street".

It's hard enough as it is to get people to use appropriate alt attributes on images; encouraging them to think in terms of "hint text" will not help. Could the attribute in this case please be renamed? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:50, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Resolved at T145236. In the future, please don't post the same concern in several places, Phabricator is enough. Max Semenik (talk) 22:32, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Please keep your misguided opinions of where posting is appropriate to yourself. For any issue that may not necessarily be resolved at Phabricator - and there are enough of those - the talk page of the relevant topic is a perfectly reasonable place to air the issue. Whoever was responsible for the suggestion to misuse the  tag needs to be made aware of the problem and there's no guarantee that they will be tracking a particular Phabricator ticket. --RexxS (talk) 01:12, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
 * As a developer of the very thingie we're discussing, I can actually state where I prefer to see reports. And if you continue in the same tone, you will lose your access to technical spaces, including this wiki. Max Semenik (talk) 17:46, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
 * As a developer of the very thingie we're discussing, I can actually state where I prefer to see reports. And if you continue in the same tone, you will lose your access to technical spaces, including this wiki. Max Semenik (talk) 17:46, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

GeoShapes
How to get an inverted filling in case of GeoShapes for masking outside areas? --RolandUnger (talk) 05:04, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Pinging Yuri to see if he has an answer. CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 16:34, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
 * We are already working on it in T146582. --Yurik (talk) 22:04, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --RolandUnger (talk) 04:52, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

Maplink and queries
Hi, does Maplink support queries the same way Mapframe does? Thanks for help, --Vojtěch Dostál (talk) 18:17, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Topographical details
Is it possible to show more details like mountain peaks with names, names of alpine club huts and names of mountain lakes and other features (e.g. for locator maps in mountain infoboxes). If i zoom in my example i only see small mountain paths (with names and numbers) leading to the summit but no peak (funny) and only the shape of a mountain lake and the shapes of buildings. I know there is a "more details" button, but i think we should also show this details in the Wikimedia map.

Also some Maki Icons ar not shown (Opera and Firefox) e. g. mountain or castle. The name of the marker symbol is accepted by Karthographer but not shown.

CKoerner (WMF) would like to have some input from german wikipedia...--Kogo (talk) 22:12, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you Kogo, I'm pinging Yuri who might be able to shed some light on the choices for which details appear on the map. For the second issue, I do know we have a task related to some icons not being available. I'll mention your request there as well. CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 15:09, 15 December 2016 (UTC)


 * I think hillshading would be a good start in that direction, but we should do much more to decorate natural features. Paul Norman will hopefully be working on this project as part of the Maps restyling. --Yurik (talk) 05:05, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

For the missing maki icons see phabricator --Herzi Pinki (talk) 11:02, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

Other GeoJSON types

 * I would think that MultiPoint, MultiPolygon, bbox, MultiLineString and GeometryCollection types which are available to use within a mapframe as well could be noted in Help... (just have to understand how they work differently from Point, Polygon, LineString and Feature Collection). In addition a limited number of geometric shapes can be drawn and placed on a map such as circles, stars, squares etc. Matroc (talk) 05:26, 19 December 2016 (UTC)