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Insert a dynamic Google Map into wiki pages
- Nov. 4th 2008
- Support for driving directions with multiple targets as been added. Use like this:
[[GoogleMap(from="here",to="there",to="there too")]]
. The map will automatically be zoomed to make the driving directions full visible. Please be warned that there isn't yet any error handling implemented, so wrong addresses etc. will just get you a normal map. - Nov. 3rd 2008
- GoogleMapMacro is now implementing
IEnvironmentSetupParticipant
to create and update the needed DB table. Usetrac-admin
<trac path>upgrade
to update the Trac DB after installing GoogleMapMacro >[4732].
Description
This macro lets the user insert a full dynamic Google Map. Because a lot of javascript is used (by Google) a Google Map compatible browser is needed. Newer version of Firefox and MS Internet Explorer are compatible.
For javascript-less static maps use the similar GoogleStaticMapMacro.
Multiple Google Maps on the same wiki page are actively supported.
Feedback: I would like to get some user feedback for this macro. Tell me if you like it or not and what could be better. Feel free to request additional features as long there are supported by the Google Maps API by opening a feature request.
Dependencies
The recent version ([4801]) of this macro needs the AdvParseArgsPlugin in revision [4795] or later.
Bugs/Feature Requests
Table of Contents
Existing bugs and feature requests for GoogleMapMacro are here.
If you have any issues, create a new ticket.
Download
Download the zipped source from [download:googlemapmacro here].
Source
You can check out GoogleMapMacro from here using Subversion, or browse the source with Trac.
There is a develop version which can be unstable: check-out | browse
Installation
This macro is now provided as python package.
If you have installed an older single-file version of the macro please remove it from the plugins
directory and note the different component name (see below).
Configuration
A different Google Map API key is needed for every web domain which can be get for free from Google. Please check if the Google Map API Terms of Use apply for your Trac project. They do apply IMHO for non-pay open accessible Trac projects.
To enable the macro put the below text into your trac.ini
file, which is located in the config
directory of your trac installation.
You can define project wide default values for some arguments and also whether the geocoding (address-to-coordinates conversion) is done on by the trac server or by the clients web browser.
Google recommends server side geocoding with caching which is now implemented and can be enabled using geocoding = server
.
Please note that this creates a table googlemapmacro
in your trac database which is used for the caching.
Server side geocoding is recommended but disabled by default.
You need to restart trac to reread the macro file and the configuration file. If you select server side geocoding you also need to update the Trac database using trac-admin
<trac path> upgrade
.
[components] tracgooglemap.* = enabled [googlemap] api_key = <Your Google API key (long hex number)> ## Server side geocoding (address-to-coordinates conversion) incl. caching (recommended). ## Please note that this creates a table 'googlemapmacro' in your trac database. ## Possible settings are 'server' or 'client' (without the quotes). Default is 'client' in order not to change the DB unasked. #geocoding = server ## Optional default settings, e.g: #default_size = 400x400 #default_zoom = 6 #default_target = newwindow
Usage
The macro knows the following arguments, which can be used in the normal key1=value1,key2=value2,...
syntax. If a value includes one or more comma then it must be set in double quotes (" "
).
If a key-less value is given it will be taken as center
coordinates if it's in the proper format otherwise it's taken as an address
. Unknown (or misspelled) keys or key-less values except the first are silently ignored.
address
- Sets the center of the map to the given address. The value must be surrounded by quotes if it includes commas, e.g.
"Street, City, Country"
. If anaddress
but nozoom
value was given an appropriate value will be guessed based on the address accuracy returned by Google. At the moment this isn't very accurate but soon Google might improve this. center
- Sets the center of the map to the given coordinates. The format is
{latitude}:{longitude}
or"{latitude},{longitude}"
. zoom
- Sets zoom factor. Allowed values are between 0 (whole world) and 19 (single house). Very high zoom values might not be supported by Google Maps for all parts of the world.
size
- The size either in the format
{width}x{height}
as numbers in pixel, e.g.:300x400
means 300px wide and 400px high or in the format{width}{unit}:{height}{unit}
where unit can be any CSS unit (em, ex, px, in, cm, mm, pt, pc). types
(optional)- Sets the map types selectable by the user, separated by colons ('
:
'). If not given the standard types of Google Maps are used (Normal, Satellite, Hybrid). The following types are available (values are case-insensitive):normal
Normal street-mapsatellite
Satellite picturehybrid
Satellite picture with streets as overlayphysical
Terrain map
type
(optional)- Sets the initial map type. See the
types
argument for the available types. If this argument is not given the first listed type undertypes
is used initially. controls
(optional)- Sets the used map controls. Multiple controls can be given, separated by colon ('
:
'). The value is case-insensitive. If not set the controlsMapType
andLargeMap
are used. If set but empty no controls are displayed. The following controls are available (descriptions taken from the Google Map API page):LargeMap
: Control with buttons to pan in four directions, and zoom in and zoom out.SmallMap
: Control with buttons to pan in four directions, and zoom in and zoom out, and a zoom slider.SmallZoom
: Control with buttons to zoom in and zoom out.Scale
: Control that displays the map scale.MapType
: Standard map type control for selecting and switching between supported map types via buttons.HierarchicalMapType
: Drop-down map type control for switching between supported map types.OverviewMap
: Collapsible overview mini-map in the corner of the main map for reference location and navigation (through dragging).
marker
- (New) Allows the user to set labeled markers on given location of the map.
The format for a marker is
{latitude}:{longitude};{Letter};{TracLink};{Title}
or"{Address}";{Letter};{TracLink};{Title}
. If the string 'center' is used instead of an address the center of the map is marked. The optional marker letter can be either A-Z or 'o', '.' or empty for a plain marker. An optional TracLink can be given which may be opened in a new window (seetarget
) when clicked on the marker. An optional marker title can be set which will get displayed when the mouse cursor is over the marker. From revision [4801] on multiple markers can be given which replaces themarkers
argument. markers
- (Old) Can be used to set multiple markers which are are separated using the '
|
' character. Optional values can be kept empty, e.g.:"{Address}";;;My Address
would display the address with the title 'My Address'. Trailing semicolons can be skipped. Addresses, links and titles which include either ',
', ';
' or '|
' must be enclosed in double quotes (" "
). target
- If set to '
new
' or 'newwindow
' all hyperlinks of the map markers will be opened in a new window (or tab, depending on the browser settings) or in the same window otherwise. from
,to
- Request driving directions '
from
'->'to
'. Multipleto
addresses are allowed. Noaddress
orcenter
need to be given.
Examples
Using geographic coordinates
Please use a colon, not a comma, as separator for the coordinates.
[[GoogleMap(center=50.0:10.0,zoom=10,size=400x400)]] or [[GoogleMap("50.0:10.0",zoom=10,size=400x400)]] or [[GoogleMap(50.0:10.0,zoom=10,size=400x400)]]
Using an address
Please use semicolons, not commas, as separators in the address.
[[GoogleMap(address="Street, City, Country",zoom=10,size=400x400)]] or [[GoogleMap("Street, City, Country",zoom=10,size=400x400)]] or, if you really want to: [[GoogleMap(Street; City; Country,zoom=10,size=400x400)]]
Please note that the address is converted into coordinates by user-side javascript every time the wiki page is loaded. If this fails no map will be shown, only an empty gray rectangle.
Server side address conversion including caching is underway.
Using both
If both address and center coordinates are given, then the result depends on the `geocoding` setting:
server
- The address is resolved on the trac server and the coordinates are completely ignored.
client
- The map is first centered at the given coordinates and then moved to the given address after (and if) it was
resolved by the client-side JavaScript code.
[[GoogleMap(center=50.0:10.0,address="Street, City, Country",zoom=10,size=400x400)]]
Select Map Types
To show a map with the standard map types where the satellite map is preselected:
[[GoogleMap("Street, City, Country",zoom=10,size=400x400,type=satellite)]]
To only show a satellite map (please note the added 's
'):
[[GoogleMap("Street, City, Country",zoom=10,size=400x400,types=satellite)]]
To show a map with hybrid and satellite map types (in this order) where the satellite map is preselected:
[[GoogleMap("Street, City, Country",zoom=10,size=400x400,types=hybrid:satellite,type=satellite)]]
To show a map with hybrid and satellite map types (in this order) where the hybrid map is preselected:
[[GoogleMap("Street, City, Country",zoom=10,size=400x400,types=hybrid:satellite)]] or [[GoogleMap("Street, City, Country",zoom=10,size=400x400,types=hybrid:satellite,type=hybrid)]]
Markers
To create three markers: one at the center of the map (A), one at the next street (B) and one at coordinates 10.243,23.343 (C):
[[GoogleMap("Street, City, Country",zoom=10,size=400x400,markers=center;A|"Next street, City, Country";B|10.243:23.343;C)]]
The same with hyperlinked markers:
[[GoogleMap("Street, City, Country",zoom=10,size=400x400,markers=center;A;wiki:MyWikiPage|"Next street, City, Country";B;ticket:1|10.243:23.343;C;http://www.example.com/)]]
Recent Changes in the Release Branch
- 17140 by rjollos on 2018-04-16 20:16:26
-
TracGoogleMapMacro 0.6: Fix unintended name change
- 17139 by rjollos on 2018-04-16 20:14:38
-
TracGoogleMapMacro 0.6: Conform to PEP8
- 15265 by rjollos on 2016-02-11 04:29:08
-
Remove unnecessary svn:mime-type on js and html files
svn:mime-type was set to "plain" for many files.
(more)
Recent Changes in the Develop Branch
Author/Contributors
Author: martin_s
Contributors:
ToDo/Planned
- Implement some error handling for driving directions.
- Default values in config file for all arguments.
- Maybe merge source with GoogleStaticMapMacro to allow addresses there, too.
- Argument
static=yes
to render a static map while using GoogleMapMacro format.