Difference between revisions of "Help:How to add maps to articles"

Revision as of 16:53, 9 January 2009

You can now embed parts of maps.hitchwiki.org into articles on hitchwiki. It's quite simple:

Go to maps.hitchwiki.org, zoom to the place you want to embed and if you want, add some markers.
Click on link here in the box to the left.
A tag for hitchwiki will show up ("To include in hitchwiki.org:"). Just copy&paste this string (<map lat='xx.xxxxxxxxxx' lng='x.xxx' zoom='xx' view='x' />) to your article.

Note that this feature works only for users with javascript enabled browsers.

There are some more parameters, that you can add:

float='right' to put in on the right of the page.
width='200' or height='300' to change the size.
view='3' defines the source of map:
- "0" sets the standard Google Maps view
- "1" the satellite view
- "2" the satellite view including the map material
- "3" sets the OpenStreetMap material on first place.

If something doesn't work for you or you have questions, please contact MrTweek.

For some examples, see these articles:

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 * <code>float='right'</code> to put in on the right of the page.
 * <code>width='200'</code> or <code>height='300'</code> to change the size.
-* <code>view='3'</code> defines the source of map: "0" sets the standard Google Maps view, "1" the satellite view, "2" the satellite view including the map material, and "3" sets the [http://www.openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap] material on first place.
+* <code>view='3'</code> defines the source of map:
+** "0" sets the standard Google Maps view
+** "1" the satellite view
+** "2" the satellite view including the map material
+** "3" sets the [http://www.openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap] material on first place.
 If something doesn't work for you or you have questions, please contact [[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]].