Maps (MediaWiki extension)

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Category:MediaWiki extension
Maps (MediaWiki extension)
Extension name Maps
About this article / disclaimer This is not official documentation
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Location of the main author Gent, Belgium
Coordinates of the main authors 51.053829, 3.725012
Developers Jeroen De Dauw, others
Licences
Description Maps is a MediaWiki extension that provides the ability to visualize geographic data with dynamic, JavaScript based, mapping API's. It has built-in support for geocoding, displaying maps, displaying markers, adding pop-ups, and more.
Mediawiki requirements 1.17.* or higher for version 2.0, 1.21 alpha or higher or the 3.0 development version
Dependencies ParamProcessor
Related extensions (documented here) Semantic Maps
Related extensions
Discussion
Language support Many
Status
First release date 2009/07/01
Last release date (as of 2013/08/22!) 2013/08/01
Last version number 2.0.1 (stable, 12/2012), 3.0 (alpha)
Programming language PHP
Alternatives
Website home page
Publications
Support websites web site
Example websites http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps
Last edited 2013/08/22

Introduction

Maps is a MediaWiki extension that provides the ability to visualize geographic data with dynamic, JavaScript based, mapping API's such as Google Maps and OpenLayers in your wiki pages. It has built-in support for geocoding, displaying maps, displaying markers, adding pop-ups, and more. Maps allows extensive customization of your maps, either per map, or via a general setting affecting all maps on your wiki. It is used by the Semantic Maps extension. (Maps, retrieved Aug 2013.