Hi all
I want to create quite a lot of maps which species distribution on Wikipedia articles e.g https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:John_Cummings/Experiments/Species_distribution_map_multiple
I think I've got a point where I can start creating them on mass but I can't work out if there is a way to automatically scale it to the part of the map that is displaying the shapes. Is this possible?
Thanks very much
By default, it will try to zoom to make all the shapes fit into the viewport. But it is important to NOT specify a zoom factor in order for that to work and no centerpoint either. If your shapes span the entire earth as in your example, then zooming of course also will not work. In fullscreen mode, the zooming seems to assume a square viewport causing parts of the shapes, to sometimes spill out at the top or bottom (someone should probably file a ticket for that). And lastly, if you are in preview mode it also seems to work a bit different (not exactly sure why that is)
Note that TheDJ's descriptions relate to using the maplink template, rather than using a direct call to <mapframe>, with all in geoJSON. Template:maplink is easier to edit, will do the zooming etc for you , and I think will handle the multiple id entries in the way you need.
