Manual: Extending Maps

From the archive: written in 2009 and kept for the record. Much of it is out of date.

Today I finally announced the new releases of my extensions on a few wiki mailing lists. I also gave the Semantic Maps documentation another overhaul, and created a manual on how to extend maps.

This manual targets developers who want to add support for a mapping service to one of the features Maps and Semantic Maps support: parser functions, query printers and form inputs. I still have to create the manual for the later two features though. Currently, the subjects of adding a new mapping service, adding parser function support and creating new geocoder classes are covered.

I hope to get the Semantic Maps part done by tomorrow, as a nice conclusion to my GSoC project.

Jeroen De Dauw is founder and CEO of Professional Wiki and builds NeoWiki. More about me. Reply by email or on Mastodon, Bluesky or X.