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Is there a feature to show points nearby to a user?

Please Add YandexMap for ExUSSR and Turkey

Do not work Cyrilic searh for Show GoogleMaps and OSM

Search does not work on Cyrillic addresses in Google maps and OSM. How to fix it? MW 26.4, SMW 2.4 , Maps 4.01, Debian 8, mariadb 5. PHP5.6 Wikipro (talk) 14:59, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Seems to work fine. In case you are talking about the search fields provided by the "maps" input type the better place to address this is the talk page of the Page forms extension. [[kgh]] (talk) 13:21, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

The map has stopped displaying correctly

If the query does not specify the coordinates, but the name (city for example), then the map is positioned simply on the center of the planet. If you specify the coordinates, it is centered on the coordinates as needed.

Previously, it worked correctly.

The latest versions of mediawiki, semantic and maps installed.

For example, page Belgium - http://anthecology.org/a/Belgium Askurashev (talk) 13:26, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

I'm having the same exact problems. Were you able to resolve? 205.254.147.8 (talk) 20:03, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

I am using {{#display_map:CITY_NAME|zoom-6|height=400}}

If I write CITY_NAME with English, the map workes well. But if I use Korean name, the map show wrong place.

Would you recommend what to check?

My private wiki used Debian, Mediawiki 1.28.2, SMW 2.5.1. 116.41.199.114 (talk) 16:11, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

I found that when loading a tab with a map there must be a constriction - google.maps.event.trigger (map, "resize"); - which recalculates the size of the map and the positioning of the markers. However, it is apparently not envisaged in this extension.

Maybe the extension author will be able to add this construct to the required place in the code ?? Askurashev (talk) 13:15, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

Having this same issue. Using city name does not work. 2001:470:8:C7:0:0:0:1BC (talk) 19:14, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Just adding another voice to say that we are also having the same issue when using city names (rather than geo coordinates) for points on a map, they do not display. Wmengle (talk) 20:12, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Query Multiple Categories for Geolocation of Wiki Pages

Can someone please tell me how I would query multiple categories to display pages in multiple categories? I currently am using the example at https://sandbox.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Cities

And I am adding one additional category below the first category, but I am only able to display pages in the first category.

Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you.

John John Morris (talk) 04:59, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

I guess you would like to do something like this:

{{#ask:
 [[Category:Cities in Europe]]
 OR
 [[Category:Cities in Asia]]
 |?Has coordinates
 |format=map
}}

... as in unions of query results: disjunctions [[kgh]] (talk) 11:31, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

That was it Karsten! Thanks so much, where in the heck do you find this information "OR". Who would have guessed! I was looking for some syntax tricks to make this work, but it was a simple obvious "OR".

Thanks sir

John John Morris (talk) 11:42, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

And thanks for the link Karsten

https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Selecting_pages#Unions_of_query_results:_disjunctions John Morris (talk) 12:00, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

I guess this indeed answers "where in the heck do you find this information "OR"." :)

In your case you could also have done

{{#ask:
 [[Category:Cities in Europe||Cities in Asia]]
 |?Has coordinates
 |format=map
}}

or

{{#ask:
 [[Category:Cities]]
 |?Has coordinates
 |format=map
}}

if the categories "Cities in Europe" and "Cities in Asia" were subcategories of "Cities". [[kgh]] (talk) 14:09, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks so much Karsten for the additional information, I will have sub categories so yes, this is awesome information. John Morris (talk) 18:57, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Maps extension leaves parsing error with Template:Coord

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 Chapjo (talk) 18:28, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

I assume that there is something wrong with the "Coord" template you created on you wiki. [[kgh]] (talk) 20:46, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

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 Chapjo (talk) 00:28, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

What is the content of the "Coord" template? Is it a public wiki you could point to. [[kgh]] (talk) 08:23, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

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 Chapjo (talk) 15:22, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

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. [[kgh]] (talk) 15:54, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

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 Chapjo (talk) 20:08, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

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. [[kgh]] (talk) 08:25, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks K.

Will follow your advice.

Chap Chapjo (talk) 15:58, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

i have the same problem. did you found how to fix? thank you Brunodapei (talk) 22:47, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

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 Foreclosurepedia (talk) 20:56, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Right align or use in a Mediawiki template

Attaching event handlers

Maps extension installation (on Debian Jessie)

 
{ 
"require": {  
        "mediawiki/maps": "~4.2.1", 	
         "mediawiki/semantic-media-wiki": "~2.5.0"


} 
}

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   47 May  8 21:49 WikiEditor -> usr/share/mediawiki/extensions-core/WikiEditor
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   51 May  8 21:49 TitleBlacklist -> /usr/share/mediawiki/extensions-core/TitleBlacklist
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   58 May  8 21:49 SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi -> usr/share/mediawiki/extensions-core/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   50 May  8 21:49 SpamBlacklist -> /usr/share/mediawiki/extensions-core/SpamBlacklist
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   47 May  8 21:49 Renameuser -> /usr/share/mediawiki/extensions-core/Renameuser
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   41 May  8 21:49 Poem -> /usr/share/mediawiki/extensions-core/Poem
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   47 May  8 21:49 PdfHandler -> /usr/share/mediawiki/extensions-core/PdfHandler
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   52 May  8 21:49 ParserFunctions -> /usr/share/mediawiki/extensions-core/ParserFunctions
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   41 May  8 21:49 Nuke -> /usr/share/mediawiki/extensions-core/Nuke
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   55 May  8 21:49 LocalisationUpdate -> /usr/share/mediawiki/extensions-core/LocalisationUpdate
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   46 May  8 21:49 Interwiki -> /usr/share/mediawiki/extensions-core/Interwiki
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   45 May  8 21:49 InputBox -> /usr/share/mediawiki/extensions-core/InputBox
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   45 May  8 21:49 ImageMap -> /usr/share/mediawiki/extensions-core/ImageMap
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   44 May  8 21:49 Gadgets -> /usr/share/mediawiki/extensions-core/Gadgets
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   48 May  8 21:49 ConfirmEdit -> /usr/share/mediawiki/extensions-core/ConfirmEdit
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   49 May  8 21:49 CiteThisPage -> /usr/share/mediawiki/extensions-core/CiteThisPage

Wrong urls for maps controls and css files (Debian Jessie)

After Maps extension installation (described in post Maps extension installation (on Debian Jessie)) I try use simple examples, map using OpenLayers service is displayed except some controls and css files aren't accessible, for instance:

zoombar.png url is:

{MYDOMAIN}/mediawiki/extensions/Maps//includes/services/OpenLayers/OpenLayers/img/zoombar.png

whereas, in fact is accessible at

{MYDOMAIN}/mediawiki/vendor/extensions/Maps/includes/services/OpenLayers/OpenLayers/img/zoombar.png

or style.css url is:

{MYDOMAIN}/mediawiki/extensions/Maps/includes/services/OpenLayers/OpenLayers/theme/default/style.css

while it should be:

{MYDOMAIN}/mediawiki/vendor/extensions/Maps/includes/services/OpenLayers/OpenLayers/theme/default/style.css

Regards

Darek Darek07 (talk) 07:24, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Ouch, the extension should have ended up at {MYDOMAIN}/mediawiki/extensions/Maps like all other extensions and not at {MYDOMAIN}/mediawiki/vendor/extensions/Maps. Probably the previous post is all wrong too though the extension installed somehow. I suggest to write to the user mailing-list since I have no experience with using MediaWiki packages via OS sources. [[kgh]] (talk) 08:24, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Although I use a couple mediawki's (1.27.3) installed via backported packages on Debian Jessie I wouldn't recommend it for non-core extensions installation.

I installed mediawiki 1.28.2 on CentOS 7 using source tar.gz, installed composer,

and next I simply did:

cd /var/www/html
sudo vi composer.local.json
sudo cat /var/www/html/composer.local.json
{
        "require": {
                "mediawiki/maps": "~4.3",
                "mediawiki/semantic-media-wiki": "~2.5"
        }
}
composer update

and everything seems to work fine! Darek07 (talk) 12:19, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the sharing your findings. I guess this is the easiest solution. I will however ping @Jeroen De Dauw: to have a peep at this. [[kgh]] (talk) 20:02, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Hard to install ?

Hello everyone !

I'm kind of new to mediawiki and i'm not a programmer. I'm quite impres by all the work made here by enthusiast people. Well. My question will probably seems stupid to you but... How do we install Maps properly ? it seems so hardcore to me.

I understood I've to install Composer and Semantic MediaWiki ?? I'm unable to do that.

Is there a way to download a folder, to write some text in localsettings.php and that's it = (has it goes for many other extensions...)

Thanks !

Yannick, Switzerland 2A02:120B:2C7D:FD90:1DDD:289C:3BF4:6105 (talk) 22:05, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Just create a "composer.local.json" file containing the following:

{
    "require": {
        "mediawiki/maps": "~4.3"
    }
}

Now issue the following command

php composer.phar update --no-dev

or

composer update --no-dev

depending on how you installed Composer.

Semantic MediaWiki is only required if you would like to use the semantic capabilities of Maps.

This is what the instructions try to tell.

How to install Composer is documented here.

No there is not other way. [[kgh]] (talk) 22:53, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

well thanks for assistance. it seems so hard... will try 2A02:120B:2C7D:FD90:2C50:5E8D:71D6:60AF (talk) 09:31, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

It's actually easier once you have installed composer. [[kgh]] (talk) 16:34, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

composer seems pretty hard to install too ^^ but i'm learning a lot of stuff. thanks ! 2A02:120B:2C7D:FD90:E82F:3B49:8E8B:2DB7 (talk) 06:34, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

SSL protection

Hi,

Since I applied SSL protection to my site, the maps have stopped working (they all just show a grey box). The SSL is unbroken. Is there a known problem? Thanks. 89.101.251.25 (talk) 18:49, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Sounds like your browser is automatically blocking mixed content. I think there was an issue in earlier versions like 2.x and lower but recent versions 3.x work fine. [[kgh]] (talk) 19:49, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Bingo! I thought Firefox loaded mixed content with a warning, but you're right you now need to enable it in settings. 89.101.251.25 (talk) 14:05, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Fullscreen button in Google Maps

FYI: The Maps extension includes a custom fullscreen control for Google Maps because there didn't used to be one in the Google Maps Javascript API, but this was added in version 3.23 of the API. See the release notes. I have hacked Maps a little, and you can see how the new control looks at this page (top right corner of map). Henryfunk (talk) 18:24, 14 December 2017 (UTC)