Yaron, I don't care one way or another and agree that following MW standards
is a good idea - just keep in mind that there are other extensions that us
$wgGoogleMapsKey -
http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=%24wgGoogleMapsKey
It would probably be a good idea to have some fallback mechanism at least
for now so it uses $wgGoogleMapsKey if $egGoogleMapsKey is not set.
Thank you,
Sergey
--
Sergey Chernyshev
http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Yaron Koren <yaro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A few notes on the Google maps key: Laurent - do you have the key setting
> after the inclusion of the Maps extension? If it comes beforehand, it won't
> work.
>
> Sergey - the decision was made to use $eg, since that's the correct
> convention for setting global variables in extensions (though it hasn't been
> followed in any SMW-related extensions until now):
>
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Coding_conventions#Extension_Functions_and_Variables
>
> It's true that $wgGoogleMapsKey is used in other extensions; Google Maps
> and SRF (the Exhibit format) are the two that I know about (SGM and Google
> Geocoder use it too, but the plan is for both of those to go away at some
> point soon). Keeping it at $wg just for compatibility would be strange,
> though, given that Maps also uses an $egYahooMapsKey, etc. The documentation
> should probably at least be clearer, though, about the usage of the two
> variables.
>
> -Yaron
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Sergey Chernyshev <
> sergey.chernys...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, it's not a good idea to rename $wgGoogleMapsKey - it's sort-of
>> generic variable for all MediaWiki extensions that use Google Map
>> services.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Sergey
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sergey Chernyshev
>> http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Laurent Alquier <laur...@alquier.org>wrote:
>>
>>> Last email for today
>>>
>>> I thought I would give it a shot and install both Maps and Semantic Maps.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, it did not go as smoothly as I thought:
>>>
>>> 1- If I replace $wgGoogleMapsKey by $egGoogleMapsKey in my
>>> LocalSettings.php file, SRF Exhibit stops displaying Maps.
>>> 2- If I keep both GoogleMapKeys variables, Maps throws an error - telling
>>> me my Google API key is not valid.
>>> Getting a dedicated API key for $egGoogleMapsKey doesn't work.
>>>
>>> I will investigate that again later this week, probably Friday. Maybe it
>>> is something I missed in the installation.
>>>
>>> - Laurent
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From*: "Laurent Alquier" <laur...@alquier.org>
>>> *Sent*: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 5:52 AM
>>> *To*: semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>>>
>>> *Subject*: Re: [SMW-devel] Maps and Semantic Maps released
>>>
>>>
>>> That was fast :)
>>>
>>> Regarding the error I reported with IE6.
>>>
>>> I am getting that error on this page : http://wiki.bn2vs.com/wiki/Maps
>>>
>>> Both the Google Map demo page and the Yahoo Maps demo page are working
>>> fine in IE6.
>>> The Open Layers demo page is also throwing an error - however, I can
>>> visit the OpenLayer website and view examples there with IE6 without error.
>>>
>>> Maybe that will help troubleshooting the error.
>>>
>>> - Laurent
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From*: "Sergey Chernyshev" <sergey.chernys...@gmail.com>
>>> *Sent*: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 5:44 AM
>>> *To*: laur...@alquier.org
>>> *Subject*: Re: [SMW-devel] Maps and Semantic Maps released
>>>
>>> Yeh, Jeroen created it and replied to me privately already ;) I'll try it
>>> when I have spare time.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Sergey
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sergey Chernyshev
>>> http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Laurent Alquier <laur...@alquier.org>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Sergey
>>>>
>>>> I believe your answer is already available on the Extension:Semantic
>>>> Maps page :
>>>>
>>>> Upgrading from Semantic Google Maps
>>>>
>>>> If you have Semantic Google Maps installed, and want to upgrade to
>>>> Semantic Maps, these are the steps you need to follow:
>>>>
>>>> - Remove the SemanticGoogleMaps directory from your extension
>>>> directory.
>>>> - Remove (when you use it) Google Geocoder in a similar fashion.
>>>> - Upload both Maps and Semantic Maps to your extension directory.
>>>> - Make sure your API key's are in the right place
>>>>
>>>> After doing all these steps, you should be done. Maps and Semantic Maps
>>>> are designed to be backward compatible with SGM, so all SGM code *
>>>> should* work on Semantic Maps. If you encounter some problem though,
>>>> please let the extension developers know.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Maps
>>>>
>>>> - Laurent Alquier
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> *From*: "Sergey Chernyshev" <sergey.chernys...@gmail.com>
>>>> *Sent*: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 4:57 AM
>>>> *To*: "jeroen De Dauw" <jeroen_ded...@yahoo.com>
>>>> *Subject*: Re: [SMW-devel] Maps and Semantic Maps released
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Great job, Jeroen!
>>>>
>>>> How do I go about upgrading from Semantic Google Maps? My
>>>> TechPresentations.org uses it a little bit.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>>
>>>> Sergey
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Sergey Chernyshev
>>>> http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:56 AM, jeroen De Dauw <
>>>> jeroen_ded...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hey,
>>>>>
>>>>> First of all, let me introduce myself.
>>>>> I'm Jeroen De Dauw, one of the GSoC students for Wikimedia foundation
>>>>> this year. During the last 2 months I've been working on 2 new mapping
>>>>> extensions for MediaWiki and Semantic
>>>>> MediaWiki<http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki>[0] with
>>>>> Yaron
>>>>> Koren <http://yaronkoren.com/> [1] as mentor. You can read more about
>>>>> this at my blog <http://blog.bn2vs.com/tag/semantic-maps/> [2].
>>>>>
>>>>> The first version of both extensions has just been released. These are
>>>>> the extensions:
>>>>>
>>>>> Maps
>>>>> Maps <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps> [3] is an
>>>>> extension that provides the ability to display coordinate data, using
>>>>> multiple mapping services, including Google Maps [4], OpenLayers [5] and
>>>>> Yahoo Maps [6], and allows users to geocode addresses.
>>>>>
>>>>> Semantic Maps
>>>>> Semantic Maps <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Maps>[7]
>>>>> is an extension that adds semantic capabilities to the Maps extension,
>>>>> and therefore provides the ability to add, view and edit coordinate data
>>>>> stored through the Semantic MediaWiki extension, using multiple mapping
>>>>> services. These include Google Maps, OpenLayers and Yahoo Maps. Semantic
>>>>> Maps and Maps are based on Semantic Google Maps and Semantic Layers, and
>>>>> are
>>>>> meant to replace these extensions. For this extension to work, you need to
>>>>> have both Semantic MediaWiki and Maps installed.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can download both extensions via their documentation pages.
>>>>> Suggestions and feature requests are welcome.
>>>>>
>>>>> [0] http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki
>>>>> [1] http://yaronkoren.com/
>>>>> [2] http://blog.bn2vs.com/tag/semantic-maps/
>>>>> [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps
>>>>> [4] http://code.google.com/apis/maps/
>>>>> [5] http://openlayers.org/
>>>>> [6] http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/
>>>>> [7] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Maps
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> De Dauw '[RTS]BN+VS*' Jeroen
>>>>>
>>>>> Forum: code <http://code.bn2vs.com>.bn2vs.com <http://code.bn2vs.com>
>>>>> Blog: blog.bn2vs.com
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>>>>>
>>>>> Don't panic. Don't be evil.
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