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Very neat! Ed

Contents 1 Taqueria la Tica 2 interface notes 3 Redirect / category 4 Category page mapping

[edit] Taqueria la Tica

I tried to do a map for this restaurant but couldn't manage to get it right - looks like Empire at least on my Firefox setup defaulted to a global view so I had to zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom in a few times to get where I was going to go.

Ok... it defaults to Ann Arbor now if you come directly from ArborWiki. Repalviglator 09:21, 3 November 2006 (PST)

[edit] interface notes

I had a heckuva time figuring out how to actually make a map *show up* in arborwiki upon "attaching" it. I went into "edit" and then saved edits, and it worked? Additionally, the maps don't really play nicely with the rest of the page as it is right now. See, e.g. Corner Brewery - I'd prefer that the map join the align-right picture in the sidebar, rather than taking over half the page width. Finally, I think the default zoom level is too close - and the zoom level appearing on the wiki page doesn't seem to be the zoom level that the map shows up in when created in Empire? This is probably an Empire feature: add the ability to set, per-map, a default zoom level. -Murph.

• Hi Murph-- yeah, there are a lot of interface issues. We're working, & sorry for the confusion. -MattH 17:15, 13 November 2006 (PST)
  • The reason the map doesn't display right away is because the MediaWiki page is cached on your computer. It's annoying that there's no immediate feedback. I'm trying to find some way to force pages to reload after a map is attached.
  • Some places are fairly large and need a lot of screen real-estate, and some like CB are smaller. I agree that the map is too large right now, and I'll play around with the sizes. Hopefully Kyle can find an elegant way to deal with different zoom levels.
  • Right now, Empire doesn't know anything about which zoom level you were on when you created a location. It attempts to pick the best zoom level upon display based on which locations are showing. Would it help if for ArborWiki maps, the default view always included Ann Arbor as a reference? That way, if something was in AA, it the map would show all of AA with the location marked, and if it was outside (like Cedar Point or something) it would show both AA and the outside location(s). Repalviglator 23:37, 14 November 2006 (PST)

[edit] Redirect / category

A map was apparently attached to Ypsilanti at some point - cool. But when you request Ypsilanti, and are redirected to Category:Ypsilanti, the map appears, while, when you request Category:Ypsilanti directly, the map does not. -Murph.

• The Category:Ypsilanti problem happened because Empire associated the phrase "Ypsilanti" with the that map, but not the phrase "Category:Ypsilanti". Better maps for category pages -- ones that show multiple locations -- are being built! -MattH 17:16, 13 November 2006 (PST)
  • Cool deal. I don't mean to sound like I'm complaining - I think that Empire's a pretty amazing thing to hook up to ArborWiki. I'm just trying to test out its limits. -Murph.

[edit] Category page mapping

The next big question is how we want to do category page mapping. There are a couple ways it could happen, but I'm not entirely happy with what I've come up with. (MattH 06:33, 27 November 2006 (PST))

• Automatically add a larger map (one that stretches the whole screen) to each category page that tries to put all the articles in the category onto the map. This could get very annoying on pages that have lots of articles, or only a few.
• Let editors choose what category pages get maps, and what's on them.
•  ?