Widget:Google Maps
This widget was created by Sergey Chernyshev
Using this widget
{{#widget:Google Maps
|key=ABQIAAAA0F7ZLa40T_P02VY1yTJ0chSZ8zUxHYe0Fkj4NlKOLtDwChkcqBRGc5lrabs9h5fNjIxfBrl2tT2JsA
|width=600
|height=400
|lat=
|lng=
|zoom=
|static=yes
|centermarker=no
}}
Parameters
- key - Google developer key for your site (you must get your own or it will not work).
- height and width define map dimensions, 420x350 is default
- lat - map center latitude
- lng - map center longitude
- zoom - zoom level (defaults to 16)
- xml - URL of XML (KML/GeoRSS) data source (only one can be used for now) *
- Markers:
- centermarker - if set, then marker is added in the center of the map
- Custom markers are defined using marker.name.lat and marker.name.lng
- Controls *:
- maptypecontrol - buttons that let the user toggle between map types (such as Map and Satellite)
- largemapcontrol - displays a large pan/zoom control used on Google Maps
- smallmapcontrol - displays a smaller pan/zoom control used on Google Maps
- smallzoomcontrol - displays a small zoom control (no panning controls) used in the small map blowup windows used to display driving directions steps on Google Maps
- scalecontrol - displays a map scale
- overviewmapcontrol - displays a collapsible overview map in the corner of the screen
- hierarchicalmaptypecontrol - displays a selection of nested buttons and menu items for placing many map type selectors
Map types
By default, map is displayed using dynamic user interface with movable map, controls, loadable XML and so on.
If you want static map image to be displayed, add static=yes which will tell widget to use Google Static Maps API. It does not support XML (KML or GeoRSS) and controls, but supports markers. Use this one when you want map to load faster and to avoid JavaScript slowing down your page. Static map is also used for graceful degradation when dynamic map is specified, but client doesn't support dynamic features like JavaScript.
Bookmarklet
Sometimes it's hard to get all the parameters you need for a map to display - coming up with longitude and latitude, correct zoom levels and so on might take too much time.
To help with this problem, we created a bookmarklet that you can use on Google Maps site to grab map widget code for current location with just one click.
Maps Widget Code Drag this bookmarklet to your links toolbar and just click it when you want to post a location on the map to your wiki.
You can insert this bookmarklet (with your Google Maps developer key preset) into your wiki using Google Maps bookmarklet widget.
