On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 5:58 PM, SV Billabong <svbillab...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I know this may sound stupid but where do we post "bugs" in the > wikipedia positions? The West Island wikipedia for Coco's Keeling > (-12.1729,96.8596 zoom 12) is really for the west island in Montreal > (45.4837,-73.7526 zoom 11).
> Also where do we add wikipedia positions for those pages that don't > have geo-references?
Thanks for that.. it's sooo hard to find anything these days!! I read
somewhere that 1 billion pages get added to the web each day (has to
be a misprint)!!
Turns out it didn't help (but at least I know how to add things to
wikipedia now). The West Island page has none of the coord statements
referred to in the doc. However the geocoder returns the Coco Keeling
West Island location when given "West Island", the title of the
wikipedia article. So there must be a hidden last ditch effort to try
and locate articles via the geocoder.
Anyway thanks for your help, I'm filling my brain one day at a time
It seems that the api version must be constantly kept v=2.x. Because
v=2.130d, like in the example, does not work with the new layers
anymore. v=2 that gives 2.131f now does't either.
> >I've just realised in getting this to work, that to add both Wikipedia
> >and Panoramiolayersto your map, you have to add 4 buttons to your
> >map which is a bit OTT! Takes up a lot of room and looks ugly.
> >I wish it were possible to have a drop down tick box to enable.disable
> >these tiles like on the actual Google Maps website, much neater.
> I've thrown together a layer control checkbox. It's not quite as fancy
> as the one on maps.google.com.
> The bit that maps.google.com does, but I can't work out how to do is the
> mouseout handling.
> I've made my control rectangular, rather than the "tabbed" shape used by
> maps.google.com so I don't have to worry about doing mouseovers and
> mouseouts of non-rectangular objects, but I still can't get the mouseout
> to do what I want.
> I get a container mouseout event when the mouse goes over a checkbox, so
> if I close the thing on container mouseout, the checkbox goes away just
> as you try to click it. What I ended up doing was setting a timeout so
> that the control goes away 5 seconds after you open it, which isn't
> quite as pretty, but it does the job.
> A side effect of having a rectangular container is that things get a bit
> ugly if you use longer text for your checkbox labels. You'd need to make
> the MoreControl and LayerControl wide enough for your longer text to
> make it look nice again.
There might be a "label" column with short layer names. Also a
separate column with ISO language codes would make it easier to
automatically select the language.
Hey Esa- Interesting suggestion, I've added a column for the language codes. What would you suggest the short layer names be, however? That's not obvious, and would likely depend on developer preference.
> There might be a "label" column with short layer names. Also a > separate column with ISO language codes would make it easier to > automatically select the language.
