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
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________________________________ From: Temlakos temlakos@gmail.com To: jeroen De Dauw jeroen_dedauw@yahoo.com Cc: semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org 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
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jeroen De Dauw wrote:
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.
This is implemented in my extension, KML Export.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:KML_Export/dms2deg
Att, Juliano.
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