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| Oct 16 2017, 8:53 PM |
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| Oct 16 2017, 8:53 PM |
When using WMF maps, it'd be great to be able to right click on the map and get the latitude / longitude of the spot that you've clicked on. This would allow easier additions of nearby locations to articles for editors.
More can be found in this discussion: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Kartographer#Stub_Question_regarding_retrieving_lat-lon_from_the_map
Thanks for the response- I am willing to contribute but no-longer have the skills to do innovative coding. However I did try to copy the example from the documentation to my en:Sandbox (well I proved that didn't work) so tried to copy an example to my Mediawiki talk page- that did, I changed the lat/lon to London, previewed it and the map changed. I did another change, and previewed and right clicked on the point I wanted- and a pop-up box appeared with the Latitude/ Longitude and the Zoom. Excellent, I saved it, did a right-click and it had gone! I got the usual suspects instead. So it works when in edit preview mode, but not in normal display mode. At least that gives us a lead. I will dual post this
This feature is in the ext.kartographer.preview module, which is load only during page preview. I'm also in favour of activating this feature all the time.