Help:Maps

From Wikipaddle

1 Making a map
- 1.1 Example
2 Finding coordinates
- 2.1 Wikipaddle coordinate finder
3 Tips

Making a map

On wikipaddle maps are created using the special googlemap tag. The tag first must be opened and told what size to be and where to look. The map can be told this using the following code.

<googlemap height="350" width="740" lat="51.551103372762388" lon="-0.8167035549146645" zoom="12">

(controls="?" can be large or small)

Coordinates can then be written into the map in the following order:

lat, lon, label goes here

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Example

This code here.

<googlemap controls="large" width="740" height="350" lat="51.551103372762388" lon="-0.8167035549146645">
 51.551103372762388,-0.8167035549146645,Hurley Weir
</googlemap>

Will out put this map.

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Finding coordinates

Coordinates needed to be put into the maps can be obtained from several sources. One option is to use a geocoding service to search for locations from address or zip code. As many of the locations on this wiki are not in built up areas they are unlikely to have an address or zip code near by for use in the geocoder. We recomend that you use the special Wikipaddle coordinate map for finding map coordinates.

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Wikipaddle coordinate finder

The wikipaddle coordinate finder can be easily accessed from the toolbox menu. Once at the coordinate finder page clicking on the map should open an info window displaying the lat and lon. This can then be put into the <googlemap> tag. For any difficulties using the coordinate finder or googlemap tag please post a message on the talk page.

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