Kartographer

Kartographer is a MediaWiki extension that adds map capability See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Kartographer

You will need to run your own map tile server, or use one that is available to you. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_servers

Terminology

• DM – data model
• Dynamic as in "dynamic map frame" – scrollable, zoomable mini map in a wiki article, realized with Leaflet
• GeoData – MediaWiki extension that provides the informantion for the nearby feature
• GeoJSON – standard format to describe features on a map, e.g. points and shapes
• Kartographer – MediaWiki extension for displaying prerendered and dynamic maps
• Kartotherian – tile server as well as backend rendering service required for Kartographer
• Leaflet – JavaScript library for interactive maps
• Maki – icon set used for the markers on a map
• Marker – a location on a map marked with a pin and/or an icon
• MapBox – …
• MW – MediaWiki
• Nearby – in this context a feature that provides links to other articles on the same wiki that have coordinates close to a given location
• OSM – OpenStreetMap, data source for the base layer of all maps
• Static as in "static map frame" – the static .png rendering of a <mapframe> tag; note this is always present, but overlayed with a dynamic map frame, depending on the configuration
• Tile – see en:Tiled web map
• TopoJSON – extension to the GeoJSON standard that encodes topology
• VE – VisualEditor
• Wikivoyage – …
• WV – Wikivoyage