Rogarian/GoogleMapsPageRewrite

This wiki runs a modified version of the Google Maps extension for MediaWiki. It allows wiki users to create zoom-able, pan-able maps of Egypt with customized markers.

Tale 5 Shard A
Settings Used width=256 height=512 scrollwheel=nothing showposition=yes showregion=yes

Tag Attributes

This extension defines a <googlemap> tag. Legal attributes are (boldface items are defaults):

Command	Desc	Options
tale	Which Tale to display?	Legal values: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
cursor	Which mouse cursor to use on the map?	Legal values: default (standard mouse cursor), crosshair, pointer (hand).
width	Width of the map in pixels.	Defaults to 600 pixels.
height	Height of the map in pixels.	Defaults to 400 pixels.
lat	The center latitude (x) on the map.	Defaults to 1010.
lon	The center longitude (y) on the map.	Defaults to 0.
zoom	Default zoom level.	Legal values: 0 to 8 (1 is default, levels 7 and 8 do not contain map data).
type	The type of map to display.	Game Maps: game - Shard A, gameb - Shard B Normal Google Maps: normal (or, equivalently, map) - Normal Google Map, terrain, hybrid, and satellite.
controls	Zoom and navigation controls.	Legal values: small creates +/- zoom buttons, medium has zoom buttons and pan buttons, large has pan buttons with a sliding scale for zoom, and none has no buttons.
showposition	Show x,y coords under the mouse?	Legal values: yes and no.
showregion	Show the region name under of the mouse?	Legal values: yes and no. Requires showpositions=yes; does not work in Tale 1, Tale 2 or Tale 3 maps.
icons	URL template for custom markers.	Use "{label}" where the name of the icon will be inserted; defaults to "http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/marker{label}.png").
icon	URL for markers without an icon specified.	Defaults to
doubleclick	What to do when the user double-clicks?	Legal values: recenter or zoom.
scrollwheel	Define how the scroll wheel behaves.	Legal values: nothing or zoom.
zoomstyle	How does the map zoom?	Legal values: fast and smooth, also known as continuous zooming (only works in some browsers).

Other Commands (Not useful for game maps):

Command	Desc	Options
stroke	Width of paths, in pixels.	Does not work in game maps.
scale	Show the scale?	Legal values are yes and no.
overview	Show the inset navigation map?	Legal values are yes and no.
selector	Show the map/hybrid/satellite selector	Legal values are yes and no.

All attributes are optional.

Icons

You can host your own collection of icons on your server, but note that they'll have the same anchor points as Google's default icon. Check out Mapki's collection of icon images for a bunch of icons you can use. To use your icons, add an icon attribute to your googlemap-tags like this

<googlemap lat="42.711618" lon="-73.205112" zoom="2" controls="small" 
 icon="http://myserver.com/standardmarker.png" 
 icons="http://myserver.com/markers/marker{label}.png">

Mayanah has some instructions for using an alternate set of icons map here and a set of Mine Specific icons and Quarry Specificon the same page.

ATITD.org now hosts local copies of all the icons Mayanah has provided. Simply use: icons="/wiki/tale5/images/markers/marker{label}.png"

Click here to show all available markers: http://www.atitd.org/wiki/tale5/images/markers

Markers

In the content of the tag, you can define one marker per line. Each line may or may not start with an icon name in parentheses; unless you set the "icons" attribute, legal icon names are the upper-case letters of the alphabet. The line should then have the latitude, then a comma, optionally a space, then the longitude, then a comma, then a label for the point. The label can include wiki mark-up (and commas). These are all legal:

<googlemap lat="42.711618" lon="-73.205112" zoom="2" controls="small">
 42.711618,-73.205112,here goes the title
 42.711618, -73.205112, here goes the title, it can contains commas too but not wiki markup
 (S) 42.711618, -73.205112, here goes the title
 first line of the caption
 Second line of the caption, not that the caption can contain wiki markup like [[Resources]]
 </googlemap>

Tabbed Info Balloons

Each tab should have a plain-text title surrounded by inward-leaning slashes (like /this\) followed by a caption that can include wiki mark-up. Tabs will be attached to the previous marker. Example:

  45.214425, -72.48114
  /Info\
  This is where Ulysses Grant is buried
  /Directions\
  [http://maps.google.com Click here] to get driving directions
  Or just drive in a random direction
  

That will create a point whose info balloon has two tabs. Note that you can put as much or as little space as you'd like between the title and the caption to make the syntax more readable.

If a point has a regular caption and tabbed captions, clicking the point will only show the tabbed captions.

Example Maps

Good Default Settings

<googlemap lat=1010 lon=0 zoom=1 width=256 height=512>
</googlemap>

All of Egypt, Square

<googlemap lat=1010 lon=0 zoom=1 width=512 height=512>
</googlemap>

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And a real map of egypt:

<googlemap lat="29.980624" lon="31.134653" zoom="14" controls="medium" type="hybrid" selector="yes">
29.980624, 31.134653, PYRAMIDS
</googlemap>

Multiple Maps/Tales Examples

Tale 5 Shard A	Tale 4 Shard B	Tale 4 Shard A
tale=5 type=game showposition=yes showregion=yes cursor=default	tale=4 type=gameb showposition=yes showregion=yes cursor=crosshair	tale=4 type=game showposition=yes showregion=yes cursor=pointer

Tale 3	Tale 2	Tale 1
tale=3 type=game showposition=yes	tale=2 type=game showposition=yes	tale=1 type=game showposition=yes