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Is there any way that the 4 positions for the label can be tweaked? I've noticed a problem on a number of UK articles, for instance Lambroughton; if the default right positioning is used the label goes outside the map, and this also occurs with top and bottom positioning. If left positioning is used, the last letter of the place name overlaps the locator pushpin.
Is there anyway to force the label to be further left, or to allow a manual positioning of the label for those cases where default positions fail?-- Nilf anion ( talk) 10:48, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
I've noticed that the first div block adds two pixels to the width of the output. Both pixels end up on the right side. Kind of like a right hand margin for an image that floats right. Does anyone know why this is done. Also, could we have a parameter that would prevent the extra pixels from being being added. It would be useful in Infoboxes. – droll [chat] 00:15, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
OK! The reason the 2px are added is because the inner block adds a 1px border around the image in addition to the outer border. So the code in the sandbox is good and the change should be transparent. – droll [chat] 23:35, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
I have noticed this a few days ago and this seems to be a bug which didn't occur before. Despite the default label position should be right, all dots that have longitude more than (approx) 30 degrees have caption on the left (see three most right dots on the example). I made an example with location map start template and multiple dots just to illustrate, but this is reproducable with single dot location map template too. - NineInchRuiner ( talk) 10:05, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I'm quite excited to have used the various template:location map to place markers on maps. The next step for me would be to be able to connect these vertices / graph edges into routes, so that travelers routes, or lines can be overlaid onto these maps.
OK, I've worked up a nice and simple solution to this problem of route or path overlays. I've sandboxed it and I'm very happy with a first cut testing. I'll move on to cross-browser testing tomorrow. Can somebody with a LOT more experience with templates than me, give me some guidance on the following questions:
Sladew ( talk) 10:56, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I want to suggest to add a specific classname to the maps div container (something like "locmap", "locationmap", ...). This would make the HTML more semantic and allows to hide the maps by user css. -- Arch2all ( talk) 09:37, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Could anyone create a template location map for Caspian Sea? It is needed for the oil field infoboxes for the Caspian Sea oil fields articles. Thank you in advance. Beagel ( talk) 19:58, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Template:Location map Caspian Sea is now ready for use... Uwe Dedering ( talk) 15:34, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
At the FAC for Thistle, Utah, the request has been made to have the location map support an inset. The idea being that many people may not recognize a simple map of Utah, and it may be helpful to have an inset map that shows the USA with Utah highlighted. I asked around at a few venues, most people agree this should be an option, as this is likely to occur with several jurisdictions in the world, not just Utah. After digging in the template coding, it appears the easiest way to support inset maps would be by modifying this template. There is some precedent, Template:Infobox Indian jurisdiction does this. Anybody have objections, thoughts, etc? Dave ( talk) 17:34, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
{{Location map foo}}
pages (e.g., {{
Location map USA Utah}}), then modify this template to use that parameter if it exists. I will try to code it up if I can find some time today, and if someone else doesn't do it first. Thanks for the great suggestion.
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk)
02:04, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
{{Location map USA Utah}}
for the name of the inset image, if there is one. If so, it will then overlay that image on the map. It will also probably need to know the dimensions of that inset image. We could allow for {{Location map USA Utah}}
to suggest a default location for the inset, but have the default be the upper left. We could have the inset automatically move to another corner if the pin is too close to the upper left. We will also want the user to be able to pass a parameter to this template to override the location of the inset as well. Can you see any problems here?
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk)
03:23, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Here are some positioning tests
and width tests
Currently, I have the inset_map_width parameter as the percentage of the overall width. I suppose a better name would be "inset_map_width_percent" or something. But, it looks like the positioning works. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 05:43, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
FYI, the immediate concern is over, as in the case of Thistle, I temporarily added a 2nd map to the infobox and the FAC has since closed. However, I still think this is a good idea. Given the most recent feedback in the sections below, here is what I propose as changes to plasticsporks attempt:
Any objections? Using Plastiksporks test as a base, I can code these changes up myself, and I see this as low risk, as unless an article is changed to invoke an inset map, no inset map will be placed, no articles will be automatically changed. Please advise if there are still any concerns. Dave ( talk) 01:23, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
Having special parameters for an inset map, can be a cumbersome special case, especially since, Template:Location_map_many solves the problem for the general case of several inset maps (or other images), overlaid onto a base map.
{{Location map many | Utah | label= <!--inset map--> | lat=41.95 | long= -109.5 | mark=Map of USA UT.svg | marksize=90 | label2= Town | lat2=39.9 | long2= -111.0 | mark2=Blue_pog.svg | label3= <!--inset map 2--> | lat3=37.05 | long3= -113.85 | mark3=Map of USA UT.svg | mark3size=65 | label4= [[Sundance]] | lat4=40.40 | long4= -111.59 | mark4=Ski-resort.png | mark4size=25 | pos4=left | caption=Utah with 2 inset maps | width = 280 }}
In the example above, note how the use of indentation helps to visually separate the parameters related to each of the 4 markers on the map.
I would spend time optimizing {Location map many} to be very efficient, then emphasize how any inset map, or other overlaid image, is merely another marker placed on the map, with mark2size=50 or mark3size=80, etc.
Meanwhile, widely-used inset maps are best "hard-coded" into a general map image, rather than crank-up a complex template every time a page is reformatted. However, for less frequent pages, using {Location map many} seems to be quite rapid for placing the inset map, plus other large towns in Utah on the same map. The website city-data.com was awesome about showing town-among-major-cities to give readers a better idea which major towns are near the "
Sundance Film Festival" or other sites on a map. It has been years since I worked with these mapper templates, but they should be optimized to be as efficient as possible: we want people to place 3 or 5 or 8 markers (or insets) on a map without fear of "slowing" an article.
To remind others about displaying multiple inset images, perhaps we should add a special section to
Template:Location_map/doc about using {Location map many}. They need to know how to add any combination of inset maps, landmark images, and numerous other towns onto a map image. -
Wikid77 (
talk)
08:08, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
Because half of the U.S. states are "square" there is no room to show an inset United States map without overlaying part of a state. Look at just 12 24 of the crowded U.S. state maps below.
When a pin-marker for a town gets near the inset edge, then the inset map would have to in-your-face block another corner of the map. Instead, I would move the inset U.S.A. map as outset, perhaps alongside a state-flower image, or a town coat-of-arms seal:
With an outset U.S.A. map, all 50 states would appear similar in format, while allowing space beside the outset map for an image such as a flower, city seal, town skyline (etc.) to add to an article, rather than subtract by obscuring the state's map with an annoying, overlaid U.S.A. map which could be shown nearby, instead. If 25 of the U.S. states were not "square" then having 25 special inset maps would not be the complex problem it is. Simplify: put the U.S.A. map nearby, but as outset not inset. - Wikid77 14:00, 10 January 2011, revised 01:06, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello all!
I would like to make location maps for other administrative divisions. The thing that I do not understand is where do you take the border and map center coordinates from. Can you give me a model (with an Open Street Map)?
Thank you! Compactforever ( talk) 18:30, 12 January 2011 (UTC) (wikipedian from ro.wp)
Would someone please be able to make a template from this file: File:Northern_England_location_map.PNG ? Or at least tell me where I'm going wrong in trying to copy/paste file names and coordinates into existing example templates.
I'm struggling to make a template like this: Template:Location_map_England
It will be really useful for sport team location maps where the leagues are split between north and south of England.
I'd be really grateful, thanks! Delusion23 ( talk) 14:45, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
I noticed someone else addressed this as well, but it was secondary to another problem, and the question was never addressed: Why doesn't float = center work as expected? If it's a CSS issue, you must know the "margin:3px auto" trick, which could be used to force the template to act the way most users would expect.
The lack of a centering option restricts the usefulness of this template in certain infoboxes and other circumstances. It would be nice to have this addressed. Wilford Nusser ( talk) 12:00, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
I am using the very impressive Location Map+ to show ancient woodland sites in English counties, to accompany a list of the woods. Using the full names as labels rapidly becomes illegible, so I thought I could label them with a reference number and use alt= and link= to bring up a full name when you point at a dot. This works fine in ME8 but both Firefox and Chrome just repeat the label= number. You can see it at List_of_Ancient_Woods_in_England#Oxfordshire. Is this something that can be resolved? or is there a better way of mapping the information. (A further problem is that link= is needed to bring up the name, but not all the woods have pages to link to (as yet...). Is that an acceptable use of the feature?) Any help or suggestions would be very appreciated. Thanks, RobinLeicester ( talk) 21:41, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
alt=
attribute of the <img />
tag when you mouseover the image. If you examine the page source you'll find code something like this:<img alt="Ancient Woods in Oxfordshire" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Oxfordshire_UK_location_map.svg/250px-Oxfordshire_UK_location_map.svg.png" width="250" height="294" />
alt= src= width= height=
), but crucially, no title=
attribute. According to
this page, the mouseover text should be taken from the title=
attribute, not from the alt=
attribute. Therefore, Firefox is being compliant in displaying nothing, whereas IE is non-compliant. The fix required here is a change to the
MediaWiki software so that the title=
attribute is set for the <img />
tag.If you look at the left-justified location map here, you can see the text on the right is jammed against the map. Can location maps be made to default, as thumbnails do, to provide an appropriate amount of white space? -- Epipelagic ( talk) 08:02, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
I've fixed this in the sandbox. The code now uses the image thumbnail classes if a caption is provided, so it should automatically get the right styling to sit properly next to text when floated (and otherwise looks just like an image thumbnail as well). The test cases page shows that the floating isn't exactly right, but it's much better than it was before. If there are no bugs I'll get this synced in a few days. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward: not at work) - talk 09:07, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
I added a float right example and it looks OK but not perfect. The Scotland example shows that something broke. – droll [chat] 21:48, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
caption
(which invokes the frame code) rather than label
which doesn't. {{
Bristol mapbox}} uses both, which is pretty pointless; I've removed the caption declaration there and that's fixed it. Looking at the Scotland example now.
Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward: not at work) -
talk
09:53, 23 April 2011 (UTC)class="thumbimage"
in the image code, which is how images get a border. I've gone back to manually hacking in an inner border. The only remaining problem is that the margins don't exactly match that of image thumbnails, but I'm not sure we can do anything about that.
Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward: not at work) -
talk
10:56, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
I move a modified version into the sandbox. Although the code generated is does not exactly match that generated by a thumb image, the output is darn close. Basically, I moved the width def for the framed version into the div that uses case thumbinner. I also spend some time on code beatification but it's still a rat's nest. I think it's clean but I tend to miss stuff so please take a good look at it. – droll [chat] 08:47, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
I agree that currently the family of templates is not easy to maintain. Here is a list of templates I know of that have related functionality:
I think the easiest way forward is to modify Location map+ and then use it as a backend for the others and that it would be fairly strait forward to use it write Location map and Location map many as using Location map+ as a core template. I going to try this using sandboxes in my user area but I'm going need some time to do it. – droll [chat] 21:54, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
|places=
to this template and make it have the same functionality as {{
Location map+}}. As for {{
Location map skew}} and {{
Location map polarx}}, we should kill those and focus on documenting the general mapping features of this template. I suggested this to the author of that template but he was not receptive.
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk)
00:13, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
There is a new version of {{ Location map+}} in that templates sandbox which implements all the changes Chris Cunningham and I have been working on. I am confident that it's ready for prime time. I also wrote a front end for this template and it is in this template's sandbox. Currently it transcludes the sandbox version of {{Location map+}} so it should not go live until after that template is updated. There are so many articles that transclude this template that I think it would be a good idea to implement {{Location map+}} and then see if any bugs show up. {{Location map many}} transcludes {{Location map+}} so articles that transclude it will also be affected by the change. I'm not going to request an edit on the location map+ discussion page as I think either Chris or Plastikspork ought to do it. P.S. I added 3px padding above the default caption. – droll [chat] 01:08, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
I move the current discussion to this new section. – droll [chat] 21:53, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
{{
Location map+}}
, not {{
Location map}}
. --
Dr Greg
talk
00:38, 6 May 2011 (UTC)Not even Microsoft websites support IE6 anymore, so we can safely call it a former browser for all practical purposes. And good riddance. Zocky | picture popups 20:32, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I'm trying to create a map using Location map plus, at European Youth Parliament#Sessions, but I can't get it to work properly. Could someone please help me? Thanks in advance. P. S. Burton ( talk) 20:58, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi. We're trying to create the Template:Infobox UK place over at cywiki ( cy:Nodyn:Gwybodlen lle'r DU is what we have), but are having problems with our version of the above template; cy:Nodyn:Location map/marker is what we have, but while trying it out on cy:Alloway, we get the error (click in to show error, for some reason it's not showing up!)
Greetings,
Is there a way we (someone) can make a more concentrated version of the Colombia and Buenos Aires maps. I think they cover too much of the surrounding geography and could work better if they were more narrowly focused. Thanks. Digirami ( talk) 21:30, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
So it turns out that {{ Location map+}} and {{ Location map many}} float left by default. See Template:Location map+/testcases#Check float. So I tweaked the sandbox version of this template so float defaults right which is the current default for this template. See Template:Location map/testcases#Check float default. It is very late right now and I'm sleepy so please check by hack before the sandbox goes live.
The other default should be checked as well, so let's hold off awhile. I really think that all three templates should have the same defaults.
Sorry that I said in a sandbox edit summary that it was good to go. I really thought it was. – droll [chat] 07:11, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
I've done fairly good check of the articles and templates that transclude Location map+, and I fixed a few things. There was nothing really bad. So, I think, the modification of that templates is OK. I looked for any other differences in default behavior and did not find anything of significance. – droll [chat] 23:14, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
none
, which I don't think is a god idea.
Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) -
talk
10:03, 26 June 2011 (UTC)Once things settle down a bit, I'd like to talk about some minor modifications.
Of course the documentation needs to be updated to reflect the options that Location map+ has that Location map did not have. I'll work on these one at a time unless others would care to take on a task. Are there tweaks that others would like to see? – droll [chat] 15:25, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
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Currently the template does not pass {{{relief}}}
. This is fixed in the {{
Location map/sandbox}} version. It has been tested and I am confident that the fix will work. –
droll
[chat]
08:56, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
Apologies if this an old chestnut, but I have searched for information without success. It would be useful, at the List of castles in England page, to have each location on a map clickable to access geohack mapping facilities. All that would be necessary is to have the small location image linked to the required href, in the same way that the whole map image is currently linked to the map source page. Is this facility available, has it been requested, if not can it please be implemented? Paravane ( talk) 17:51, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
{{
Location map+}}
? --
Redrose64 (
talk)
18:51, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
{{
Location map+}}
the link is only to a wiki page, a similar facility but it would be useful to be able to link instead to geohack, and it could be done via the location image spot. It might also be helpful if it could be done by opening a new browser window, to avoid leaving the wiki page.
Paravane (
talk)
19:19, 17 July 2011 (UTC){{Location map+ |Berkshire |width=300 |float=right |AlternativeMap = Berkshire UK district map (blank).svg |caption=Castles of Berkshire | places = {{Location map~ |Berkshire |lat=51.483889 |long=-0.604444|label='''Windsor''' |position=bottom |mark=Green pog.svg |link=http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Windsor_Castle¶ms=51_29_02_N_0_36_16_W_type:landmark}} }}
This works for Windsor. I strip the others for simplicity. I do not recommend the use of {{ Location map start}} because it currently receives little support. P.S. I got the URL by going to the Windsor Castle page and clinking on the coordinates link. I have a another idea and if it works I'll get back to you on your talk page. – droll [chat] 20:15, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
{|align=right |{{Location map+|Scotland|caption=Location map Scotland|width=200 |places= {{Location map~|Scotland|label=Ardnamurchan Point |position=right |lat_deg=56.726 |lon_deg=-6.224 }} {{Location map~|Scotland|label=Cape Wrath |position=top |lat_deg=58.6248 |lon_deg=-5.0015 }} {{Location map~|Scotland|label=John o' Groats |position=right |lat_deg=58.64 |lon_deg=-3.07 }} {{Location map~|Scotland|label=Lamberton, Scottish Borders |position=bottom |lat_deg=55.808 |lon_deg=-2.055 }} {{Location map~|Scotland|label=Mull of Galloway |position=left |lat_deg=54.6351 |lon_deg=-4.8563 }} {{Location map~|Scotland|label=Rattray Head |position=left |lat_deg=57.5091 |lon_deg=-1.7832 }} }} |{{Location map+|Scotland mainland|caption=Location map Scotland mainland|width=200 |places= {{Location map~|Scotland mainland|label=Ardnamurchan Point |position=right |lat_deg=56.726 |lon_deg=-6.224 }} {{Location map~|Scotland mainland|label=Cape Wrath |position=bottom |lat_deg=58.6248 |lon_deg=-5.0015 }} {{Location map~|Scotland mainland|label=John o' Groats |position=right |lat_deg=58.64 |lon_deg=-3.07 }} {{Location map~|Scotland mainland|label=Lamberton, Scottish Borders |position=bottom |lat_deg=55.808 |lon_deg=-2.055 }} {{Location map~|Scotland mainland|label=Mull of Galloway |position=left |lat_deg=54.6351 |lon_deg=-4.8563 }} {{Location map~|Scotland mainland|label=Rattray Head |position=left |lat_deg=57.5091 |lon_deg=-1.7832 }} }} |{{Location map+|Scotland2|caption=Location map Scotland2|width=200 |places= {{Location map~|Scotland2|label=Ardnamurchan Point |position=right |lat_deg=56.726 |lon_deg=-6.224 }} {{Location map~|Scotland2|label=Cape Wrath |position=top |lat_deg=58.6248 |lon_deg=-5.0015 }} {{Location map~|Scotland2|label=John o' Groats |position=right |lat_deg=58.64 |lon_deg=-3.07 }} {{Location map~|Scotland2|label=Lamberton, Scottish Borders |position=bottom |lat_deg=55.808 |lon_deg=-2.055 }} {{Location map~|Scotland2|label=Mull of Galloway |position=left |lat_deg=54.6351 |lon_deg=-4.8563 }} {{Location map~|Scotland2|label=Rattray Head |position=left |lat_deg=57.5091 |lon_deg=-1.7832 }} }} |}
The coordinates for {{
Location map Scotland mainland}}
are somewhat off. The horizontal scale is about right, but the vertical scale is significantly compressed, see central map at right. The places mapped are at or near the extremities of the Scottish mainland:
Ardnamurchan Point,
Cape Wrath,
John o' Groats,
Lamberton, Scottish Borders,
Mull of Galloway,
Rattray Head. The other two maps are shown for comparison. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
14:49, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi. In mobile view there is a bug in German Wikipedia's copy of "Location map". As you can see here, the horizontal position of the marker is wrong, as it varies with browser window width. The English version works just fine.
Are there some changes you made to the original template in order to fix location map for mobile view? Regards, -- Church of emacs ( Talk) 07:23, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
The red dots on the maps for Cheetham Close and Rivington services are in the wrong place, but when clicking of the coordinates and selecting one of the maps at GeoHack they are in the correct place. Could someone please look into the problem and fix it. Thanks HLE ( talk) 18:25, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
Had a problem with my browser, but now appears ok. Thanks anyway. HLE ( talk) 15:40, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
{{
Infobox UK place}}
, which I believe does not make use of Location map's caption but supplies its own caption (outside of Location map). The good news for me is that my employer's IT department has announced an upgrade from IE6. The bad news is that the rollout has been postponed due to compatibility issues. --
Dr Greg
talk
20:08, 5 August 2011 (UTC)Why not just use
Poof, here's a static map:
Probably link it back to Google maps to satisfy their terms of use and you are all set. Of course if Google goes down so do you, but they wouldn't be so rude as to do that. Jidanni ( talk) 22:53, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
How about because they are not free? ro.wp and de.wp already gave up the static maps in favor of OSM, which is free and quite good in most countries (certainly better than the static maps). If you want to test it, just go to the German and Romanian interwiki from Bucharest and click on "Karte" and the globe, respectively. You should see a very nice map with related articles on top.-- Strainu ( talk) 00:56, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
Also the red dot (now a pushpin) would finally stay on the map even in when viewed devices without CSS. Where currently your maps all lose their red dots. Jidanni ( talk) 23:47, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
Allow us to compare how your years of effort,
match up with my 93 seconds experiment,
That's right, tons of placenames on the map for free too. Why reinvent the wheel? Sure it is corporate lock-in... but doesn't Google just love Wikipedia too? Save your duplicated effort for something ... that at least looks as good. (Yes, I recommend still hardwiring the coordinates into the markers= instead of relying on the luck of the name match.) Jidanni ( talk) 00:03, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
OK, let's talk a little about map types.
Maybe what you really want is a physical map... yes, that would be more proper for an encyclopedia. Voila,
Oops, there go the aforementioned tons of placenames. Errg... Yuck. Well, its all about choice. You be the judge. So I do believe we have a deal. Sign on the dotted line.......☻ Jidanni ( talk) 00:21, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
The reason that it's not being used doesn't have to do a lot with Google's Terms as Use as much as with our own (Wikimedia Foundation) Privacy Policy. Hotlinking to a third-party service violates that policy by sending data about the readers to Google without their consent. Krinkle ( talk) 20:46, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
See WP:Templates for discussion#Template:Location map polarx. Thank you. 198.102.153.2 ( talk) 17:09, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
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I believe that on the Location Map included in the article, the locations of where Alan Canfora and William Schoeder were shot have been switched: I believe that Canfora was relatively close to the National Guard and was wounded in the hand; Schroeder was shot at a great distance and killed. If the Location Map cannot be edited, perhaps a note could be added to the text noting the discrepancy.
Tcroach ( talk) 20:29, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
{{
location map}}
template, and does not deal with specifics. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
20:54, 4 September 2011 (UTC)I've seen a few comments that when readers click on the map, they (reasonably) expect it to link to a higher resolution version of the locator map. Instead, they end up with version of the underlying blank map - which isn't what they expect, and is entirely useless for that reader. The ideal behaviour would be for it to give what the reader expects, but that is probably hard to do.
However, disabling the link entirely (by use of link=, as {{ flag}} does) should be easy to do. Some benefits include removal of the link to an "irrelevant" file and also in cases where the label has a defined link, it means if the reader misses the label, they won't get the wrong link. The biggest complication is that this might break the file's attribution path. Thoughts?-- Nilf anion ( talk) 00:45, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
Disabling the default link to the image description page is problematic. Many images, including images of maps, are not in the public domain. For example the image used by {{
Location map USA}} is licensed under both the the
Creative Commons
Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-SA 3.0) and the
GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). Its my understanding that the link to the image description page satisfies the attribution requirement of the CC BY-SA 3.0 license, and the requirement that of the text of the
GFDL be included with licensed document. I'm not an expert on this, so I might be wrong. One way around this is to include a link to the description page by using something like
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Is there a procedure to make or request for a new map? Another user made a request to use an old map of Italy ( File:Kingdom of Italy 1919 map.svg) for the 1934 FIFA World Cup, and probably it can be used in other articles, too. (The Giro d'Italia in that year, the national football competitions, et cetera.) -- EdgeNavidad ( Talk · Contribs) 09:52, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
In the examples given, a certain USA map is called / sourced by {{Location+|USA2..., but how does one know that name beforehand? It may have been USA3 for all I know. Where does one see the name? - as the file name happens to be "File:Usa edcp relief location map.png". JMK ( talk) 19:33, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
{{
Location map+|USA2|...}}
, because there isn't a template named {{
Location+}}
. See
Category:Location map by country templates where
Template:Location map USA2 is listed. Basically, if you see something in there, you omit the Template:Location map
part, which in this case gives USA2
. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
20:04, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
{{
location map}}
or {{
location map+}}
, because it's not linked to any template in the Location map family. Such a template would need to be created; but this may not be necessary: see
File:Channel Islands location map.svg, which
is linked to a suitable template. This is
Template:Location map Channel Islands, i.e. use {{
location map|Channel Islands|...}}
or {{
location map+|Channel Islands|...}}
. To see it in a real-world example, have a look at
Guernsey Airport. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
21:00, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
And could someone perhaps prepare an Alaskan location map with the islands and peninsulas excluded? That would be useful as one can focus on the mainland, with a more useful scale. JMK ( talk) 19:49, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
I have begun to create regional maps of Italy to illustrate the Italian Army unit disposition over the last fifty years. The first template I created is for the province of South Tyrol: Template:Location map South Tyrol relief. However when I tried to create a map+ map for the Alpine Brigade Tridentina I get the following error message: Alpine Brigade Tridentina#unit dispositions 1989. Could someone please point out the error to me? I can't find it! Also I would like to create maps for the Italian regions: namely relief maps for each of the following:
Maps for Sicily and Sardinia already exits. Can anyone help? What's the best way to create this maps. Thanks in advance for any help, noclador ( talk) 09:22, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
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For whatever reason, a person might want to increase label width but not increase label font size. Right now, the only way to increase the width of the label is to change the font of the label (the width is a static 6em's). Open up the source, search for: width: 6em; (emphasis added -- it only occurs once) and change that to width: {{{label_width|6}}}em; (emphasis added). Then add something in the documentation about a label width value and that it should be given as a straight number but that it'll be parsed in em rather than px, so as to scale with an increased font size if the font is changed by a screen reader. Banaticus ( talk) 04:27, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
Can someone please help me find the correct border coordinates for this map: Location map Northern Italy relief? I have been trying for an hour to figure out how to find the correct border coordinates, but whatever I tried the result (when adding cities like: Verona, Turin, Udine, etc.) was that they were either to far in the East, to high in the North, off to the right or off the map!. If anyone has the ability to figure out the coordinates - please be so kind add them to the template. Thanks very much in advance!!! noclador ( talk) 08:39, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
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Is there any way that the 4 positions for the label can be tweaked? I've noticed a problem on a number of UK articles, for instance Lambroughton; if the default right positioning is used the label goes outside the map, and this also occurs with top and bottom positioning. If left positioning is used, the last letter of the place name overlaps the locator pushpin.
Is there anyway to force the label to be further left, or to allow a manual positioning of the label for those cases where default positions fail?-- Nilf anion ( talk) 10:48, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
I've noticed that the first div block adds two pixels to the width of the output. Both pixels end up on the right side. Kind of like a right hand margin for an image that floats right. Does anyone know why this is done. Also, could we have a parameter that would prevent the extra pixels from being being added. It would be useful in Infoboxes. – droll [chat] 00:15, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
OK! The reason the 2px are added is because the inner block adds a 1px border around the image in addition to the outer border. So the code in the sandbox is good and the change should be transparent. – droll [chat] 23:35, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
I have noticed this a few days ago and this seems to be a bug which didn't occur before. Despite the default label position should be right, all dots that have longitude more than (approx) 30 degrees have caption on the left (see three most right dots on the example). I made an example with location map start template and multiple dots just to illustrate, but this is reproducable with single dot location map template too. - NineInchRuiner ( talk) 10:05, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I'm quite excited to have used the various template:location map to place markers on maps. The next step for me would be to be able to connect these vertices / graph edges into routes, so that travelers routes, or lines can be overlaid onto these maps.
OK, I've worked up a nice and simple solution to this problem of route or path overlays. I've sandboxed it and I'm very happy with a first cut testing. I'll move on to cross-browser testing tomorrow. Can somebody with a LOT more experience with templates than me, give me some guidance on the following questions:
Sladew ( talk) 10:56, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I want to suggest to add a specific classname to the maps div container (something like "locmap", "locationmap", ...). This would make the HTML more semantic and allows to hide the maps by user css. -- Arch2all ( talk) 09:37, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Could anyone create a template location map for Caspian Sea? It is needed for the oil field infoboxes for the Caspian Sea oil fields articles. Thank you in advance. Beagel ( talk) 19:58, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Template:Location map Caspian Sea is now ready for use... Uwe Dedering ( talk) 15:34, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
At the FAC for Thistle, Utah, the request has been made to have the location map support an inset. The idea being that many people may not recognize a simple map of Utah, and it may be helpful to have an inset map that shows the USA with Utah highlighted. I asked around at a few venues, most people agree this should be an option, as this is likely to occur with several jurisdictions in the world, not just Utah. After digging in the template coding, it appears the easiest way to support inset maps would be by modifying this template. There is some precedent, Template:Infobox Indian jurisdiction does this. Anybody have objections, thoughts, etc? Dave ( talk) 17:34, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
{{Location map foo}}
pages (e.g., {{
Location map USA Utah}}), then modify this template to use that parameter if it exists. I will try to code it up if I can find some time today, and if someone else doesn't do it first. Thanks for the great suggestion.
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk)
02:04, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
{{Location map USA Utah}}
for the name of the inset image, if there is one. If so, it will then overlay that image on the map. It will also probably need to know the dimensions of that inset image. We could allow for {{Location map USA Utah}}
to suggest a default location for the inset, but have the default be the upper left. We could have the inset automatically move to another corner if the pin is too close to the upper left. We will also want the user to be able to pass a parameter to this template to override the location of the inset as well. Can you see any problems here?
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk)
03:23, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Here are some positioning tests
and width tests
Currently, I have the inset_map_width parameter as the percentage of the overall width. I suppose a better name would be "inset_map_width_percent" or something. But, it looks like the positioning works. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 05:43, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
FYI, the immediate concern is over, as in the case of Thistle, I temporarily added a 2nd map to the infobox and the FAC has since closed. However, I still think this is a good idea. Given the most recent feedback in the sections below, here is what I propose as changes to plasticsporks attempt:
Any objections? Using Plastiksporks test as a base, I can code these changes up myself, and I see this as low risk, as unless an article is changed to invoke an inset map, no inset map will be placed, no articles will be automatically changed. Please advise if there are still any concerns. Dave ( talk) 01:23, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
Having special parameters for an inset map, can be a cumbersome special case, especially since, Template:Location_map_many solves the problem for the general case of several inset maps (or other images), overlaid onto a base map.
{{Location map many | Utah | label= <!--inset map--> | lat=41.95 | long= -109.5 | mark=Map of USA UT.svg | marksize=90 | label2= Town | lat2=39.9 | long2= -111.0 | mark2=Blue_pog.svg | label3= <!--inset map 2--> | lat3=37.05 | long3= -113.85 | mark3=Map of USA UT.svg | mark3size=65 | label4= [[Sundance]] | lat4=40.40 | long4= -111.59 | mark4=Ski-resort.png | mark4size=25 | pos4=left | caption=Utah with 2 inset maps | width = 280 }}
In the example above, note how the use of indentation helps to visually separate the parameters related to each of the 4 markers on the map.
I would spend time optimizing {Location map many} to be very efficient, then emphasize how any inset map, or other overlaid image, is merely another marker placed on the map, with mark2size=50 or mark3size=80, etc.
Meanwhile, widely-used inset maps are best "hard-coded" into a general map image, rather than crank-up a complex template every time a page is reformatted. However, for less frequent pages, using {Location map many} seems to be quite rapid for placing the inset map, plus other large towns in Utah on the same map. The website city-data.com was awesome about showing town-among-major-cities to give readers a better idea which major towns are near the "
Sundance Film Festival" or other sites on a map. It has been years since I worked with these mapper templates, but they should be optimized to be as efficient as possible: we want people to place 3 or 5 or 8 markers (or insets) on a map without fear of "slowing" an article.
To remind others about displaying multiple inset images, perhaps we should add a special section to
Template:Location_map/doc about using {Location map many}. They need to know how to add any combination of inset maps, landmark images, and numerous other towns onto a map image. -
Wikid77 (
talk)
08:08, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
Because half of the U.S. states are "square" there is no room to show an inset United States map without overlaying part of a state. Look at just 12 24 of the crowded U.S. state maps below.
When a pin-marker for a town gets near the inset edge, then the inset map would have to in-your-face block another corner of the map. Instead, I would move the inset U.S.A. map as outset, perhaps alongside a state-flower image, or a town coat-of-arms seal:
With an outset U.S.A. map, all 50 states would appear similar in format, while allowing space beside the outset map for an image such as a flower, city seal, town skyline (etc.) to add to an article, rather than subtract by obscuring the state's map with an annoying, overlaid U.S.A. map which could be shown nearby, instead. If 25 of the U.S. states were not "square" then having 25 special inset maps would not be the complex problem it is. Simplify: put the U.S.A. map nearby, but as outset not inset. - Wikid77 14:00, 10 January 2011, revised 01:06, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello all!
I would like to make location maps for other administrative divisions. The thing that I do not understand is where do you take the border and map center coordinates from. Can you give me a model (with an Open Street Map)?
Thank you! Compactforever ( talk) 18:30, 12 January 2011 (UTC) (wikipedian from ro.wp)
Would someone please be able to make a template from this file: File:Northern_England_location_map.PNG ? Or at least tell me where I'm going wrong in trying to copy/paste file names and coordinates into existing example templates.
I'm struggling to make a template like this: Template:Location_map_England
It will be really useful for sport team location maps where the leagues are split between north and south of England.
I'd be really grateful, thanks! Delusion23 ( talk) 14:45, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
I noticed someone else addressed this as well, but it was secondary to another problem, and the question was never addressed: Why doesn't float = center work as expected? If it's a CSS issue, you must know the "margin:3px auto" trick, which could be used to force the template to act the way most users would expect.
The lack of a centering option restricts the usefulness of this template in certain infoboxes and other circumstances. It would be nice to have this addressed. Wilford Nusser ( talk) 12:00, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
I am using the very impressive Location Map+ to show ancient woodland sites in English counties, to accompany a list of the woods. Using the full names as labels rapidly becomes illegible, so I thought I could label them with a reference number and use alt= and link= to bring up a full name when you point at a dot. This works fine in ME8 but both Firefox and Chrome just repeat the label= number. You can see it at List_of_Ancient_Woods_in_England#Oxfordshire. Is this something that can be resolved? or is there a better way of mapping the information. (A further problem is that link= is needed to bring up the name, but not all the woods have pages to link to (as yet...). Is that an acceptable use of the feature?) Any help or suggestions would be very appreciated. Thanks, RobinLeicester ( talk) 21:41, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
alt=
attribute of the <img />
tag when you mouseover the image. If you examine the page source you'll find code something like this:<img alt="Ancient Woods in Oxfordshire" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Oxfordshire_UK_location_map.svg/250px-Oxfordshire_UK_location_map.svg.png" width="250" height="294" />
alt= src= width= height=
), but crucially, no title=
attribute. According to
this page, the mouseover text should be taken from the title=
attribute, not from the alt=
attribute. Therefore, Firefox is being compliant in displaying nothing, whereas IE is non-compliant. The fix required here is a change to the
MediaWiki software so that the title=
attribute is set for the <img />
tag.If you look at the left-justified location map here, you can see the text on the right is jammed against the map. Can location maps be made to default, as thumbnails do, to provide an appropriate amount of white space? -- Epipelagic ( talk) 08:02, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
I've fixed this in the sandbox. The code now uses the image thumbnail classes if a caption is provided, so it should automatically get the right styling to sit properly next to text when floated (and otherwise looks just like an image thumbnail as well). The test cases page shows that the floating isn't exactly right, but it's much better than it was before. If there are no bugs I'll get this synced in a few days. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward: not at work) - talk 09:07, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
I added a float right example and it looks OK but not perfect. The Scotland example shows that something broke. – droll [chat] 21:48, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
caption
(which invokes the frame code) rather than label
which doesn't. {{
Bristol mapbox}} uses both, which is pretty pointless; I've removed the caption declaration there and that's fixed it. Looking at the Scotland example now.
Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward: not at work) -
talk
09:53, 23 April 2011 (UTC)class="thumbimage"
in the image code, which is how images get a border. I've gone back to manually hacking in an inner border. The only remaining problem is that the margins don't exactly match that of image thumbnails, but I'm not sure we can do anything about that.
Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward: not at work) -
talk
10:56, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
I move a modified version into the sandbox. Although the code generated is does not exactly match that generated by a thumb image, the output is darn close. Basically, I moved the width def for the framed version into the div that uses case thumbinner. I also spend some time on code beatification but it's still a rat's nest. I think it's clean but I tend to miss stuff so please take a good look at it. – droll [chat] 08:47, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
I agree that currently the family of templates is not easy to maintain. Here is a list of templates I know of that have related functionality:
I think the easiest way forward is to modify Location map+ and then use it as a backend for the others and that it would be fairly strait forward to use it write Location map and Location map many as using Location map+ as a core template. I going to try this using sandboxes in my user area but I'm going need some time to do it. – droll [chat] 21:54, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
|places=
to this template and make it have the same functionality as {{
Location map+}}. As for {{
Location map skew}} and {{
Location map polarx}}, we should kill those and focus on documenting the general mapping features of this template. I suggested this to the author of that template but he was not receptive.
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk)
00:13, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
There is a new version of {{ Location map+}} in that templates sandbox which implements all the changes Chris Cunningham and I have been working on. I am confident that it's ready for prime time. I also wrote a front end for this template and it is in this template's sandbox. Currently it transcludes the sandbox version of {{Location map+}} so it should not go live until after that template is updated. There are so many articles that transclude this template that I think it would be a good idea to implement {{Location map+}} and then see if any bugs show up. {{Location map many}} transcludes {{Location map+}} so articles that transclude it will also be affected by the change. I'm not going to request an edit on the location map+ discussion page as I think either Chris or Plastikspork ought to do it. P.S. I added 3px padding above the default caption. – droll [chat] 01:08, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
I move the current discussion to this new section. – droll [chat] 21:53, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
{{
Location map+}}
, not {{
Location map}}
. --
Dr Greg
talk
00:38, 6 May 2011 (UTC)Not even Microsoft websites support IE6 anymore, so we can safely call it a former browser for all practical purposes. And good riddance. Zocky | picture popups 20:32, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I'm trying to create a map using Location map plus, at European Youth Parliament#Sessions, but I can't get it to work properly. Could someone please help me? Thanks in advance. P. S. Burton ( talk) 20:58, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi. We're trying to create the Template:Infobox UK place over at cywiki ( cy:Nodyn:Gwybodlen lle'r DU is what we have), but are having problems with our version of the above template; cy:Nodyn:Location map/marker is what we have, but while trying it out on cy:Alloway, we get the error (click in to show error, for some reason it's not showing up!)
Greetings,
Is there a way we (someone) can make a more concentrated version of the Colombia and Buenos Aires maps. I think they cover too much of the surrounding geography and could work better if they were more narrowly focused. Thanks. Digirami ( talk) 21:30, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
So it turns out that {{ Location map+}} and {{ Location map many}} float left by default. See Template:Location map+/testcases#Check float. So I tweaked the sandbox version of this template so float defaults right which is the current default for this template. See Template:Location map/testcases#Check float default. It is very late right now and I'm sleepy so please check by hack before the sandbox goes live.
The other default should be checked as well, so let's hold off awhile. I really think that all three templates should have the same defaults.
Sorry that I said in a sandbox edit summary that it was good to go. I really thought it was. – droll [chat] 07:11, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
I've done fairly good check of the articles and templates that transclude Location map+, and I fixed a few things. There was nothing really bad. So, I think, the modification of that templates is OK. I looked for any other differences in default behavior and did not find anything of significance. – droll [chat] 23:14, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
none
, which I don't think is a god idea.
Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) -
talk
10:03, 26 June 2011 (UTC)Once things settle down a bit, I'd like to talk about some minor modifications.
Of course the documentation needs to be updated to reflect the options that Location map+ has that Location map did not have. I'll work on these one at a time unless others would care to take on a task. Are there tweaks that others would like to see? – droll [chat] 15:25, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
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Currently the template does not pass {{{relief}}}
. This is fixed in the {{
Location map/sandbox}} version. It has been tested and I am confident that the fix will work. –
droll
[chat]
08:56, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
Apologies if this an old chestnut, but I have searched for information without success. It would be useful, at the List of castles in England page, to have each location on a map clickable to access geohack mapping facilities. All that would be necessary is to have the small location image linked to the required href, in the same way that the whole map image is currently linked to the map source page. Is this facility available, has it been requested, if not can it please be implemented? Paravane ( talk) 17:51, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
{{
Location map+}}
? --
Redrose64 (
talk)
18:51, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
{{
Location map+}}
the link is only to a wiki page, a similar facility but it would be useful to be able to link instead to geohack, and it could be done via the location image spot. It might also be helpful if it could be done by opening a new browser window, to avoid leaving the wiki page.
Paravane (
talk)
19:19, 17 July 2011 (UTC){{Location map+ |Berkshire |width=300 |float=right |AlternativeMap = Berkshire UK district map (blank).svg |caption=Castles of Berkshire | places = {{Location map~ |Berkshire |lat=51.483889 |long=-0.604444|label='''Windsor''' |position=bottom |mark=Green pog.svg |link=http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Windsor_Castle¶ms=51_29_02_N_0_36_16_W_type:landmark}} }}
This works for Windsor. I strip the others for simplicity. I do not recommend the use of {{ Location map start}} because it currently receives little support. P.S. I got the URL by going to the Windsor Castle page and clinking on the coordinates link. I have a another idea and if it works I'll get back to you on your talk page. – droll [chat] 20:15, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
{|align=right |{{Location map+|Scotland|caption=Location map Scotland|width=200 |places= {{Location map~|Scotland|label=Ardnamurchan Point |position=right |lat_deg=56.726 |lon_deg=-6.224 }} {{Location map~|Scotland|label=Cape Wrath |position=top |lat_deg=58.6248 |lon_deg=-5.0015 }} {{Location map~|Scotland|label=John o' Groats |position=right |lat_deg=58.64 |lon_deg=-3.07 }} {{Location map~|Scotland|label=Lamberton, Scottish Borders |position=bottom |lat_deg=55.808 |lon_deg=-2.055 }} {{Location map~|Scotland|label=Mull of Galloway |position=left |lat_deg=54.6351 |lon_deg=-4.8563 }} {{Location map~|Scotland|label=Rattray Head |position=left |lat_deg=57.5091 |lon_deg=-1.7832 }} }} |{{Location map+|Scotland mainland|caption=Location map Scotland mainland|width=200 |places= {{Location map~|Scotland mainland|label=Ardnamurchan Point |position=right |lat_deg=56.726 |lon_deg=-6.224 }} {{Location map~|Scotland mainland|label=Cape Wrath |position=bottom |lat_deg=58.6248 |lon_deg=-5.0015 }} {{Location map~|Scotland mainland|label=John o' Groats |position=right |lat_deg=58.64 |lon_deg=-3.07 }} {{Location map~|Scotland mainland|label=Lamberton, Scottish Borders |position=bottom |lat_deg=55.808 |lon_deg=-2.055 }} {{Location map~|Scotland mainland|label=Mull of Galloway |position=left |lat_deg=54.6351 |lon_deg=-4.8563 }} {{Location map~|Scotland mainland|label=Rattray Head |position=left |lat_deg=57.5091 |lon_deg=-1.7832 }} }} |{{Location map+|Scotland2|caption=Location map Scotland2|width=200 |places= {{Location map~|Scotland2|label=Ardnamurchan Point |position=right |lat_deg=56.726 |lon_deg=-6.224 }} {{Location map~|Scotland2|label=Cape Wrath |position=top |lat_deg=58.6248 |lon_deg=-5.0015 }} {{Location map~|Scotland2|label=John o' Groats |position=right |lat_deg=58.64 |lon_deg=-3.07 }} {{Location map~|Scotland2|label=Lamberton, Scottish Borders |position=bottom |lat_deg=55.808 |lon_deg=-2.055 }} {{Location map~|Scotland2|label=Mull of Galloway |position=left |lat_deg=54.6351 |lon_deg=-4.8563 }} {{Location map~|Scotland2|label=Rattray Head |position=left |lat_deg=57.5091 |lon_deg=-1.7832 }} }} |}
The coordinates for {{
Location map Scotland mainland}}
are somewhat off. The horizontal scale is about right, but the vertical scale is significantly compressed, see central map at right. The places mapped are at or near the extremities of the Scottish mainland:
Ardnamurchan Point,
Cape Wrath,
John o' Groats,
Lamberton, Scottish Borders,
Mull of Galloway,
Rattray Head. The other two maps are shown for comparison. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
14:49, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi. In mobile view there is a bug in German Wikipedia's copy of "Location map". As you can see here, the horizontal position of the marker is wrong, as it varies with browser window width. The English version works just fine.
Are there some changes you made to the original template in order to fix location map for mobile view? Regards, -- Church of emacs ( Talk) 07:23, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
The red dots on the maps for Cheetham Close and Rivington services are in the wrong place, but when clicking of the coordinates and selecting one of the maps at GeoHack they are in the correct place. Could someone please look into the problem and fix it. Thanks HLE ( talk) 18:25, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
Had a problem with my browser, but now appears ok. Thanks anyway. HLE ( talk) 15:40, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
{{
Infobox UK place}}
, which I believe does not make use of Location map's caption but supplies its own caption (outside of Location map). The good news for me is that my employer's IT department has announced an upgrade from IE6. The bad news is that the rollout has been postponed due to compatibility issues. --
Dr Greg
talk
20:08, 5 August 2011 (UTC)Why not just use
Poof, here's a static map:
Probably link it back to Google maps to satisfy their terms of use and you are all set. Of course if Google goes down so do you, but they wouldn't be so rude as to do that. Jidanni ( talk) 22:53, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
How about because they are not free? ro.wp and de.wp already gave up the static maps in favor of OSM, which is free and quite good in most countries (certainly better than the static maps). If you want to test it, just go to the German and Romanian interwiki from Bucharest and click on "Karte" and the globe, respectively. You should see a very nice map with related articles on top.-- Strainu ( talk) 00:56, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
Also the red dot (now a pushpin) would finally stay on the map even in when viewed devices without CSS. Where currently your maps all lose their red dots. Jidanni ( talk) 23:47, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
Allow us to compare how your years of effort,
match up with my 93 seconds experiment,
That's right, tons of placenames on the map for free too. Why reinvent the wheel? Sure it is corporate lock-in... but doesn't Google just love Wikipedia too? Save your duplicated effort for something ... that at least looks as good. (Yes, I recommend still hardwiring the coordinates into the markers= instead of relying on the luck of the name match.) Jidanni ( talk) 00:03, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
OK, let's talk a little about map types.
Maybe what you really want is a physical map... yes, that would be more proper for an encyclopedia. Voila,
Oops, there go the aforementioned tons of placenames. Errg... Yuck. Well, its all about choice. You be the judge. So I do believe we have a deal. Sign on the dotted line.......☻ Jidanni ( talk) 00:21, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
The reason that it's not being used doesn't have to do a lot with Google's Terms as Use as much as with our own (Wikimedia Foundation) Privacy Policy. Hotlinking to a third-party service violates that policy by sending data about the readers to Google without their consent. Krinkle ( talk) 20:46, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
See WP:Templates for discussion#Template:Location map polarx. Thank you. 198.102.153.2 ( talk) 17:09, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
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I believe that on the Location Map included in the article, the locations of where Alan Canfora and William Schoeder were shot have been switched: I believe that Canfora was relatively close to the National Guard and was wounded in the hand; Schroeder was shot at a great distance and killed. If the Location Map cannot be edited, perhaps a note could be added to the text noting the discrepancy.
Tcroach ( talk) 20:29, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
{{
location map}}
template, and does not deal with specifics. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
20:54, 4 September 2011 (UTC)I've seen a few comments that when readers click on the map, they (reasonably) expect it to link to a higher resolution version of the locator map. Instead, they end up with version of the underlying blank map - which isn't what they expect, and is entirely useless for that reader. The ideal behaviour would be for it to give what the reader expects, but that is probably hard to do.
However, disabling the link entirely (by use of link=, as {{ flag}} does) should be easy to do. Some benefits include removal of the link to an "irrelevant" file and also in cases where the label has a defined link, it means if the reader misses the label, they won't get the wrong link. The biggest complication is that this might break the file's attribution path. Thoughts?-- Nilf anion ( talk) 00:45, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
Disabling the default link to the image description page is problematic. Many images, including images of maps, are not in the public domain. For example the image used by {{
Location map USA}} is licensed under both the the
Creative Commons
Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-SA 3.0) and the
GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). Its my understanding that the link to the image description page satisfies the attribution requirement of the CC BY-SA 3.0 license, and the requirement that of the text of the
GFDL be included with licensed document. I'm not an expert on this, so I might be wrong. One way around this is to include a link to the description page by using something like
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Is there a procedure to make or request for a new map? Another user made a request to use an old map of Italy ( File:Kingdom of Italy 1919 map.svg) for the 1934 FIFA World Cup, and probably it can be used in other articles, too. (The Giro d'Italia in that year, the national football competitions, et cetera.) -- EdgeNavidad ( Talk · Contribs) 09:52, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
In the examples given, a certain USA map is called / sourced by {{Location+|USA2..., but how does one know that name beforehand? It may have been USA3 for all I know. Where does one see the name? - as the file name happens to be "File:Usa edcp relief location map.png". JMK ( talk) 19:33, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
{{
Location map+|USA2|...}}
, because there isn't a template named {{
Location+}}
. See
Category:Location map by country templates where
Template:Location map USA2 is listed. Basically, if you see something in there, you omit the Template:Location map
part, which in this case gives USA2
. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
20:04, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
{{
location map}}
or {{
location map+}}
, because it's not linked to any template in the Location map family. Such a template would need to be created; but this may not be necessary: see
File:Channel Islands location map.svg, which
is linked to a suitable template. This is
Template:Location map Channel Islands, i.e. use {{
location map|Channel Islands|...}}
or {{
location map+|Channel Islands|...}}
. To see it in a real-world example, have a look at
Guernsey Airport. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
21:00, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
And could someone perhaps prepare an Alaskan location map with the islands and peninsulas excluded? That would be useful as one can focus on the mainland, with a more useful scale. JMK ( talk) 19:49, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
I have begun to create regional maps of Italy to illustrate the Italian Army unit disposition over the last fifty years. The first template I created is for the province of South Tyrol: Template:Location map South Tyrol relief. However when I tried to create a map+ map for the Alpine Brigade Tridentina I get the following error message: Alpine Brigade Tridentina#unit dispositions 1989. Could someone please point out the error to me? I can't find it! Also I would like to create maps for the Italian regions: namely relief maps for each of the following:
Maps for Sicily and Sardinia already exits. Can anyone help? What's the best way to create this maps. Thanks in advance for any help, noclador ( talk) 09:22, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
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For whatever reason, a person might want to increase label width but not increase label font size. Right now, the only way to increase the width of the label is to change the font of the label (the width is a static 6em's). Open up the source, search for: width: 6em; (emphasis added -- it only occurs once) and change that to width: {{{label_width|6}}}em; (emphasis added). Then add something in the documentation about a label width value and that it should be given as a straight number but that it'll be parsed in em rather than px, so as to scale with an increased font size if the font is changed by a screen reader. Banaticus ( talk) 04:27, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
Can someone please help me find the correct border coordinates for this map: Location map Northern Italy relief? I have been trying for an hour to figure out how to find the correct border coordinates, but whatever I tried the result (when adding cities like: Verona, Turin, Udine, etc.) was that they were either to far in the East, to high in the North, off to the right or off the map!. If anyone has the ability to figure out the coordinates - please be so kind add them to the template. Thanks very much in advance!!! noclador ( talk) 08:39, 28 November 2011 (UTC)