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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 inputs. Some internal rewriting has also been done, which was needed to address some of these bugs, and will enable future awesomeness increase. The included OpenLayers library has also been upgraded to 2.9.1. (changes to Maps, changes to SM). People running any 0.6.x are advised to upgrade. Especially people using Semantic Maps in conjunction with Semantic Forms, as both 0.6 and 0.6.1 contain undesired behaviour in the forms.

A new release of Semantic Bundle, which will include these versions of the mapping extensions, is likely to soon be released as well

Downloads

• Maps 0.6.3 (7z)
• Maps and Semantic Maps 0.6.3 (7z)

See also

• The release notes on the documentation wiki

About 10 months ago I moved to Gent (see blog post), and stayed at facilities provided by the university. Now that the school year is over, and I’m not a student any more, I have to move again. I’m getting my own studio in the Zebrastraat, which is where my mom currently lives. i’m staying at her place for about 2 weeks until my studio’s contract starts. Read as: free food and no dishes -> more programming time

Some pictures of me moving, taken with my new HTC desire <3:

My old setup, stripped down already for moving.

My printer, which I was hoping might just appear at it’s destination due to uncertainty, but no such luck.

My new, temporary, setup @ my moms place.

Obviously, my final setup at my own studio will be over 9000 times more awesome :d

After doing a pile of research on how to best create an extension management platform for MediaWiki as my Google Summer of Code project, I realized that a lot of the work that I wanted to do was already done in some form or another, and decided to somewhat augment my goals. Since I can build upon Configure, and the Deployment Framework of Ontoprise, it should now be possible to also take care of the MediaWiki and extension configuration that I put as optional in my original proposal. To have some transparency here, and not to cause misconceptions, I created an awesome new roadmap.

I did an attempt to get some feedback by posting my roadmap on wikitech-l, but apparently everyone is either happy with it, or more likely, Parkinson’s Law of Triviality is in play here. So feedback and suggestions are definitely welcome, you can post them on the discussion page.

As Configure is doing an awesome job already without making significant changes to any existing code, I decided to start off with the Deployment Framework. I’m currently in the process of figuring out how it works exactly, so I’m able to extend it’s features, and build a GUI in the form of several MediaWiki special pages on top of it. This will have some immediate pay-off as Ontoprise will be able to use this improved version directly.

Both my presentations for Wikimania 2010 have been accepted, of which one is about my project, which will give me a change to explain to people what I’m doing and why it’s so awesome

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 handling of distances has also been considerably improved: there is a new #distance parser function, additional distance related parameters in #geodistance, and new settings that allow you to customize the default distance behaviour. In Semantic Maps a rather important bugfix has been made which solves a problem with editing articles with forms that contain maps that arose in 0.6.1. (changes to Maps, changes to SM). People running 0.6 and 0.6.1 are advised to upgrade. Especially people using Semantic Maps in conjunction with Semantic Forms, as both 0.6 and 0.6.1 contain undesired behaviour in the forms.

Read this announcement on the documentation wiki

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 coordinates when editing existing ones or inserting new ones.