Maps

This article is a documentation draft for the Maps mediawiki extension. This documentation reflects many unfinished features.

The Maps system is an extension for mediawiki that allows interactive maps to be created and edited like other content on a wiki. Maps can be created by starting a new article in the Map: namespace. You can also include custom maps in other articles as well as overlay information on them.

The Map Namespace
Articles in the Map namespace are custom map instances. Each map can inherit existing tiles sets, including several predefined sets for accessing google's data. Map articles can include both map data and text, which can be useful to overlay a default set of information on the map (for instance, country names).

Including maps
Maps can be included in other articles using the map parser function.

Parameters
 * height (default: 400px)
 * Sets the height for the map.
 * width (default: 100%)
 * Sets the width for the map.
 * name (default: map)
 * Sets the map identifier for the map. This is useful if there are multiple maps on a page, or if a map is in a template, to let you specify which map you are adding data to.
 * zoom (default: 2)
 * Sets the staring zoom for the map.
 * center (default: 0,0)
 * Sets the center point for the map.

You can also include a full map article in the same way you would include any other article: This would allow you to leverage default labels applied to the map, but limits you to the default map settings and could include additional content.

Adding information to a map
Information (such as country labels, points of interest, borders, etc.) can be added to maps in several ways.

Adding data with parser functions
Data types
 * Label
 * Point
 * Shape

Editing a map
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Installation
The Maps extension is currently under development and has not been publicly released yet. If you would like to try it in its current incomplete form, contact Nova at nova@rumfish.net