New subject: [Mediawiki-l] [SMW-devel] Maps and Semantic Maps released

23 Aug 2009

Hey,

...
 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?

No, they do not support that notation. It would not be that hard to implement, but no one
has asked for it before, so I guess the demand is pretty low.
Is simply geocoding the actual addresses with the build in #geocode parser function [0]
not an option? That way you can avoid having to work with coordinates all together.

[0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps#Geocoding

Cheers,
Jeroen De Dauw

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From: Temlakos &lt;temlakos(a)gmail.com&gt;
To: jeroen De Dauw &lt;jeroen_dedauw(a)yahoo.com&gt;
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Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 3:18:19 AM
Subject: Re: [SMW-devel] Maps and Semantic Maps released

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

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