Dear Jeroen: Does either Maps or Semantic Maps provide a means by which to display a map with a marker at a set of coordinates given in degrees, minutes, and seconds? All your examples for simple display of a single point use floating-point degree quantities. This would force me to hand-convert, and that seems rather pointless to me.
What I would like to do is design a template for a settlement, or a landmark (e.g., mountain, hill, valley), that will include a map of the immediate region and automatically place a marker at the specified coordinates in the article on that settlement or landmark. A query formatted as a map with many points on it looks great. And it would be wonderful for an article on a country, because I could place markers for every city and/or landmark in that country. But when I write an article for a city or a mountain, I annotate coordinates in degrees, minutes, and seconds. Or must I get used to specifying them in floats? Temlakos jeroen De Dauw 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 <http://blog.bn2vs.com> > Xfire: bn2vs ; Skype: rts.bn.vs > > Don't panic. Don't be evil. > 70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-devel mailing list > Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
