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GoogleMapsSummary: How to add an interactive Google map into PmWiki
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Please refer to the Google Map API page, which provides a recipe in response to the following discussion. QuestionIs it possible to add an interactive google map into PmWiki complete with annotated and "pinned" areas as well as links on the PmWiki page that interact with the map. AnswerAt this point it's uncertain, but it would be a pretty useful way to load information. For example, what if you were using PmWiki as a tool in planning a movie. When you went location scouting for the movie shoots, you wanted to document your scouting more interactively. On your location scouting page, you add the google map where you have pinned locations and annotations. Below the map, which is embedded in the wiki somehow, you have other notes added, perhaps those that wouldn't fit in the wiki. NotesThere are several sites to get started. Since I am writing this more to spark the project, I don't have much more than an idea. One thing I have researched is that to take advantage of the google maps API, you must download an api key. This helps google track who has it and make sure they don't break the license agreement I think. Some explanations
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Mediawiki has a working google maps extension. see the link below.ReleasesNone CommentsHi :)
An easy means of incorporating the code to include the map API would be handy for those without the knowldege. I've just started to play with it, and as an experiment set up the google map on a bare web page and used the (:includeurl:) markup to include that page within a PmWiki page. It seems to work fine, and the code I've been playing with for markers and overlays seems to work happily too. Des, Feb 06, 2005. Just noticed the appearance of a markup that provides for the inclusion of javascript/html inside wiki pages, Javascript. Notice the warning about the potential hazard of using it without a passworded page though, so may not be solution if a user editable page is needed. Unfortunately, neither the google map script, nor the alert box example, run when I add this markup. The page just shows the plain test of the scripts concerned. (PmWiki2.1beta20 and monobook skin used). Des, Feb 16, 2006. Please see the Comments towards the bottom of the Javascript page. The markup given in the note referred to there allows the map code to be inserted directly into a wiki page (and worked first time), but has security issues if the site is open for user edits, so (:includeurl:) looks better, even if it means maintaining the map code on an external page. Des, Feb26, 2006. There's a proble with gma-2.1.2 because it seems to ignore the default zoom level -- it works fine when I specifically set a zoom level for a map, but when I leave it out or set it to zero it shows nothing. Breyten Does the Google Maps API recepi support the selection of KML files? I have build KML files that are on the internet and I want to see the GoogleMap + the KML file (route). I have succesfully incorporated google maps, including predefined .KML files in the PmWiki. The only thing I did was adding the (:html:) and (:htmlend:) tags which ofcourse is a dodgy solution. If you want more info email DJ. ContributorsProfiles November 25, 2005, at 07:55 PMSmick
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