Extension:Maps

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Starting with the 4.0 release this extension will also incorporates all the functionality from the then obsolete Semantic Maps extension.

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Maps Release status:Extension status stable
ImplementationTemplate:Extension#type	Parser function, Tag
DescriptionTemplate:Extension#description	Allows users to display maps and coordinate data using multiple mapping services.
Author(s)Template:Extension#username	Jeroen De Dauw and others
Latest versionTemplate:Extension#version	See RELEASE NOTES
MediaWikiTemplate:Extension#mediawiki	1.23+
PHPTemplate:Extension#php	5.5+
Database changesTemplate:Extension#needs-updatephp	No
ComposerComposer	mediawiki/maps
LicenseTemplate:Extension#license	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	GitHub: project page git repository URL [help] commit history README
ExampleTemplate:Extension#example	Maps examples
Hooks usedTemplate:Extension#hook LanguageGetMagicManual:Hooks/LanguageGetMagic AdminLinksManual:Hooks/AdminLinks UnitTestsListManual:Hooks/UnitTestsList
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The extension Maps enables your MediaWiki pages to visualize geographic data with dynamic, JavaScript-based mapping APIs such as Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, and OpenLayers in your wiki pages.

It has built-in support for geocoding, displaying maps, displaying markers and geospatial shapes, adding pop-ups, and more and allows extensive customization per map, or for all maps on your wiki. For more information, including installation instructions, see the documentation on GitHub.

Download and installation

See the installation instructions.

Usage

See Maps demos and check out the links provided in the external links section of this page.

Gallery of examples

Some screenshots of inline maps created using the display_map parser hook:

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External links

• Maps demos
• Blog of the author about Maps and Semantic Maps
• Maps display_map screencast
• Maps display_point screencast
• Powerpoint presentation about MediaWiki, SMW, Maps and Semantic Maps 0.5.3 used at a presentation in Gent, February 2010.
• Powerpoint presentation about Maps and Semantic Maps 0.4 used at Semantic MediaWiki Camp 2009.
• http://www.joydownload.com/how-to/improve-spam-detection-system

Responsive Skins

The following needs to be added to "Mediawiki:Common.css" to make the maps show correctly in a responsive skin, e.g. the ForegroundSkin:Foreground skin:

/* fix google maps little man in responsive skin */
.gm-style img {
    max-width: none;
}

The reason is that maps are being written directly as a div container and unfortunately the skin's CSS is the entire site for the img attribute.

See also

• Extension:Semantic MapsExtension:Semantic Maps - Adds semantic capabilities on top of Maps
• Extension:YandexMapsExtension:YandexMaps - Adds support for yandex.com to Maps
• Extension:ValidatorExtension:Validator - Needed by Maps
• Semantic BundleSemantic Bundle - An extension bundle that includes Maps
• Semantic Result FormatsSemantic Result Formats - Various visualization formats for SMW
• Extension:MultiMapsExtension:MultiMaps - Allows users to display maps and coordinate data using multiple mapping services.