Shows the location of a given point on a Google Map

Description

A plugin that shows the location of a given point on a Google Map.

Installation

Apply for a Google Map API Key.

Edit your WEB-INF/xwiki.cfg file as follows:

(Note that the above key is a fake API key).

Copy the plugin jar to the %xwikipath%/WEB-INF/lib/ directory of your xwiki installation.

Restart your XWiki instance

Usage

The first parameter specifies the latitude of the location, the second parameter specifies the longitude of the location, the third parameter specifies the zoom level (a value between 1 and 19), and finally the last parameter specifies the title of the location.

Example

Result

(The following is only an image, the real result would be interactive)

Acknowledgment

The development of this plugin was in part supported by award no. OCI-0724806 from the National Science Foundation.

Prerequisites & Installation Instructions

Follow these steps:

• Add the JAR in your container classpath (WEB-INF/lib)
• Edit xwiki.cfg and add the following line to the list of plugins :
  xwiki.plugins=\
        [...]
         ... ,\
       <plugin package>
• Restart your container
• Verify the plugin is properly installed by typing the following in a wiki page :
  {{velocity}}
  $xwiki.<plugin name>.name
  {{/velocity}}

  If the installation has been successful, you will see <plugin name>.