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Maps and Semantic Maps 0.6.5 are now available for download. This release contains mainly internal changes to improve code modularity and fix some security concerns. Several bugs have been fixed as well, and a new hook has been added to…Read more ›

Last 3 days I’ve been at the 2010 edittion of Wikimania, one of the biggest yearly wiki events. This year it was in Gdansk, Poland. I went by Plane from Eindhoven, together with Maarten, a moderator on the Dutch Wikipedia with >5 year history, who drove me to the airport. I’ll start with the things [...]

Maps and Semantic Maps 0.6.4 are now available for download. This release contains several new features, amongst which basic KML support for Google Maps, a new OSM service implementation and re-added service links support to the Geographical ... [More] Coordinates data-type in Semantic Maps. Everyone running 0.6.2 or older is advised to upgrade as soon as possible. [...] [Less]

Maps and Semantic Maps 0.6.3 are now available for download. This release is one aimed to improve stability and addresses a number of bugs that where present in 0.6.x. Some notable fixed issues are a failure of parsing any coordinates containing a degree symbol that surfaced in 0.6.2, and the failing of non-Google Maps form [...]

Maps and Semantic Maps 0.6.2 are now available for download. This release contains improvements to parameter handling, case insensitivity has been re-added, and using default parameters together with named ones will work more intuitive. In Maps the ... [More] handling of distances has also been considerably improved: there is a new #distance parser function, additional distance related [...] [Less]

Maps and Semantic Maps 0.6.1 are now available for download. This release does not add any new features to 0.6, but contains multiple important bugfixes (Maps, SM). People running 0.6 are advised to upgrade. Especially people using Semantic Maps 0.6 in conjunction with Semantic Forms, as the mapping form inputs in 0.6 will output invalid [...]

Maps and Semantic Maps 0.6 are now available for download. Maps 0.6 requires Validator 0.3, which is included in the release distribution, and can also be found on SVN. Semantic Maps 0.6 requires Maps 0.6, Validator 0.3 and Semantic MediaWiki 1.5.1 or above. See the download page for full dependency and compatibility tables. This is [...]

One of the big changes in the upcoming 0.6 release of Semantic Maps will be the from the ground up rewritten semantic datatype for Geographical coordinates. Although the changes themselves do not directly add any value for the user, they enable some pretty neat improvements to existing features, and the creation of many new ones. [...]

I’ve been working on Maps and Semantic Maps 0.6, the next big, awesome, release of both MediaWiki extensions, for over a month now. I also released an early alpha on the 3th of April. All planned new features have been implemented, and known bugs from 0.5.x have been fixed. So you might wonder why 0.6 [...]

During the past two weeks I’ve been putting some effort in making some big changes to the source of Maps and Semantic Maps, and adding some awesome new features. Although not every to-do for the 0.6 release has been completed, I’ve made an early alpha version available which allows you to try out some of [...]