Difference between revisions of "AboutUsMaps"

AboutUsMaps refers to a variety of technologies at AboutUs to provide different maps on article and category pages. These include:

• DomainBox Maps
• Google Maps
• Category Intersect Map

Domain Box Maps

Easy Way

Click "edit wiki" and make sure you have this (or change it to this) in the domain template at the top of the page:

 map = <map section="Address"></map> | 

Then make sure the address that you want the map to pull from is formatted like this in its own section:

===Address===
:107 SE Washington Street
:Portland, OR 97214

Some international addresses don't map automatically and you'll need to experiment a little. Often simply removing the street address (just having city, state) works.

In addition, there is a technique to change the zoom level shown:

map = <map zoom="12" section="Address"></map> 

You will find the information here:

English: / Englisch:

http://econym.googlepages.com/index.htm

German / Deutsch:

http://philipp.gothic-singles.de/demo.php

http://www.ajax-info.de/google-maps-api-klasse-in-php

Maybe interesting, too: / Eventuell auch noch interessant:

http://www.webthreads.de/2006/07/google-maps-mit-neuem-zoom-feature/

http://www.google.com/apis/maps/index.html

Good luck and have fun with it !o)

Direct (Harder) Way: by adding Geo Codes

map = <map latitude="42.5454"  longitude="-83.2139"></map> | 

Here are quick instructions for finding latitue and longitude values from a google map.

Forcing google maps to turn off on a page

You can either remove the whole map tag from the domain box OR give it a nomap tag for section.

map = <map section="nomap"></map> | 

Google Maps

Instructions are at googlemap

• at this local

Following the example on John's page, linked above, you will need to insert the correct lat and lon coordinates for your location. I found this map, which will pop up your lat and lon. Just put your address in below the map, when you've found your location then copy and paste the info from the boxes on the right of the map. WillyP | talk

Category Intersect Maps

Instructions coming.