Topic on Extension talk:Maps

Installing MAPS extension causes a call to {{coord}} to print this error; "Fatal error: The format of the coordinate could not be determined. Parsing failed." The {{coord}} continues to display correctly, however, the error message displays in a pink window below the coordinate.

Maps is installed via composer as the installation docs say. The only way I have been able to remove the error is to remove "mediawiki/maps" from composer.json AND reboot the server. The error will persist until machine is rebooted.

Hoping someone has seen this error and knows the fix.Or perhaps I am missing some other template/module/extension that needs to be installed.

Thanks,

Chap

I assume that there is something wrong with the "Coord" template you created on you wiki.

Thank you,

I have reverted to version 3.8.2 where the parsing error does not occur. I should have tried that to begin with. Installing 4.x.x seems to cause the error.

Thanks,

Chap

What is the content of the "Coord" template? Is it a public wiki you could point to.

Thanks Kghbln,

The Template:Coord is a template exported from Wikimedia and imported into my wiki with no modifications.

The wiki is a small, personal wiki being used for genealogy. I am the sole editor.

https://wiki.jonesipedia.com/index.php/Special:Version

Chap

Ah ok, one of these wikipedia template monsters. Note that Wikipedia does not use the Maps extension so there is probably something it the lua module the template uses that does not play. So something will have to be adapted.

Probably it will be good to get a stack trance for the error. Perhaps there is something that the Maps extension can do to fail more user friendly.

Thank you Kghbln,

Having turned on all the debug tools, I found only one message that appeared to sorta-kinda look suspicious;

[GlobalTitleFail] MessageCache::parse called by ParserHook->validateAndRender/ParserHook->renderFatalError/Message->parse/Message->toString/Message->parseText/MessageCache->parse with no title set.

However, and for what it's worth, the actual language of the error message is found on line 83 @

extensions/Geo/src/Parsers/GeoCoordinateParser.php

which is part of the data-values/geo package. I'm not sure, but I think that it is installed during the Maps composer installation. In the meantime, I have added "data-values/geo": "1.1.8" into composer.json. No difference was made with 1.1.8 installed with Maps 4.0.5. The parsing errors still occurs.

Thanks again,

Chap

Indeed, "data-values/geo" is fetched as a dependency of "Maps". Adding it manually to your "composer.local.json" file will not change this. I am not sure where best to report. Since Maps 3.x is working I would report initially at this spot to make the developer aware. That spot will be the second approach.

Thanks K.

Will follow your advice.

Chap

i have the same problem. did you found how to fix? thank you

Same problem in MW 1.35: Will display coords on top but not inline on any WP Templates. Example: https://digitalmatrixgroup.com/index.php/Birmingham,_Alabama