Extension:Maps

Not to be confused with Maps.

Starting with the 4.0 release this extension incorporates all the functionality from the now 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. The semantic part of extension adds semantic capabilities to this extension. This includes the ability to add, edit, aggregate and visualize coordinate data stored through the Semantic MediaWikiExtension:Semantic MediaWiki extension.

Download and installation

See the installation instructions.

Usage

regular

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

semantic

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

Gallery of examples

regular

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

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semantic

Some screenshots of Semantic MediaWikiSemantic MediaWiki:

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External links

regular

• Maps demos and examples
• Blog of the author about Maps and Semantic Maps
• Maps display_map screencast
• Powerpoint presentation about MediaWiki, SMW, Maps and Semantic Maps 0.5.3 used at a Semantic Mapping with MediaWiki presentation in Gent, February 2010.
• Powerpoint presentation about Maps and Semantic Maps 0.4 used at Semantic MediaWiki Camp 2009.

semantic

• Semantic Maps examples
• entropywins.wtf -

Blog of the author about Semantic Maps

• Powerpoint presentation about MediaWiki, Semantic MediaWiki, Maps and Semantic Maps 0.5.3
• Powerpoint presentation, about Maps and Semantic Maps 0.4 used at Semantic MediaWiki Camp 2009.

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:YandexMapsExtension:YandexMaps - Adds support for yandex.com to Maps
• Semantic Result FormatsSemantic Result Formats - Various visualization formats for Extension:Semantic MediaWikiExtension:Semantic MediaWiki
• Extension:MultiMapsExtension:MultiMaps - Allows users to display maps and coordinate data using multiple mapping services.
• Extension:Whats NearbyExtension:Whats Nearby - Provides geolocation information to templates