Template:Infobox mapframe

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This template generates a mapframe map, suitable for infoboxes, with minimal user input. This template only works with single features (points, lines, or shapes); use {{maplink}} if more advanced options, such as displaying multiple features, are required.

If coordinates are not supplied, they will be fetched from the page's Wikidata item. In such cases, if |point= is not set, then a point feature marker is displayed at those coordinates unless the Wikidata item has an (P402) specified.

• See Category:Infobox mapframe without OSM relation ID on Wikidata for pages which have items without (P402)
• Troubleshooting shapes guidance is found at Module talk:mapframe/FAQ

Usage

Note: When in mainspace, parameter |id= is not required (except to use a different page's data)

Basic

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"></syntaxhighlight> When used without parameters, or with only |id=, the map will display either a shape, line, or point feature, depending on the data available on Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.

• If the Wikidata item does not specify a (P402) value, then a point marker will be displayed by default in addition any OSM shape or line feature.
• If the Wikidata items does not specify a (P625) or a (P3896) value, then no map will be displayed

Expand Basic usage examples
Point feature (Wikidata coordinates): <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"></syntaxhighlight> Line feature: <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"></syntaxhighlight> Shape feature: <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"></syntaxhighlight>

Using specified coordinates instead of Wikidata

Point feature only, no shapes or lines: <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"></syntaxhighlight> Point feature and shape/line feature if available: <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"></syntaxhighlight>

Specify coordinates using the {{Coord}} templates, e.g. |coord={{Coord|32.1|S|116.2|E}}

• If |coord= is specified, then by default only that coordinate will be displayed (no line or shape features)
• If |coord= is specified and |wikidata=yes is used, then those coordinate will be displayed, along with any line or shape features linked to the Wikidata item.

Expand Specified coordinates examples
Point feature (with coordinates specified, no shape/line feature from Wikidata item): <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"></syntaxhighlight> Point feature (with coordinates specified, along with shape/line feature from Wikidata item): <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"></syntaxhighlight>

Customizing which features are displayed

Inverse shape

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"></syntaxhighlight> Replace the shape with an inverse-shape (geomask) by setting |shape=inverse

Expand Inverse shape example
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Turn point marker on or off

Force point marker to be displayed: <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"></syntaxhighlight> Prevent point marker from being displayed: <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"></syntaxhighlight>

Turn shape feature off

Prevent shape feature from being displayed: <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"></syntaxhighlight>

Turn line feature off

Prevent line feature from being displayed: <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"></syntaxhighlight>

Show a geomask from a related Wikidata item

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"></syntaxhighlight> Set |geomask= to a Wikidata item id (Q-number), or property id (P-number) such as (P17)

Expand Geomask examples
Use the item linked from the (P17) statement as a geomask: <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"></syntaxhighlight> Use the item (Q1199) as a geomask: <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"></syntaxhighlight>

Determine zoom from object length or area

Use |length_km= or |length_mi= or |area_km2= or |area_mi2=

Expand Zoom from length/area examples
Determine zoom from object length in kilometres or miles <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"></syntaxhighlight> <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"></syntaxhighlight> Determine zoom from object area in square kilometres or square miles <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"></syntaxhighlight> <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"></syntaxhighlight>

Parameters

All parameters are optional.

• Basic parameters:
  • id – Id (Q-number) of Wikidata item to use. Default: item for current page
  • coordinates or coord – Coordinates to use, instead of any on Wikidata. Use the {{Coord}} template, e.g. |coord={{Coord|12.34|N|56.78|E}}. Default: coordinates from Wikidata
  • wikidata – Set to <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" id="" style="" inline="1">yes</syntaxhighlight> to show shape/line features from the wikidata item, if any, when |coord= is set. Default: not specified
• Customise which features are displayed:
  • shape – Turn off display of shape feature by setting to <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" id="" style="" inline="1">none</syntaxhighlight>. Use an inverse shape (geomask) instead of a regular shape by setting to <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" id="" style="" inline="1">inverse</syntaxhighlight>. Default: not specified
  • point – Turn off display of point feature by setting to <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" id="" style="" inline="1">none</syntaxhighlight>. Force point marker to be displayed by setting to <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" id="" style="" inline="1">on</syntaxhighlight>. Default: not specified
  • line – Turn off display of line feature by setting to <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" id="" style="" inline="1">none</syntaxhighlight>. Default: not specified
  • geomask – Wikidata item to use as a geomask (everything outside the boundary is shaded darker). Can either be a specific Wikidata item (Q-number), or a property that specifies the item to use (e.g. P17 for (P17), P131 for (P131)). Default: not specified
  • switcher – set to <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" id="" style="" inline="1">auto</syntaxhighlight> or <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" id="" style="" inline="1">geomasks</syntaxhighlight> or <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" id="" style="" inline="1">zooms</syntaxhighlight> to enable Template:Switcher-style switching between multiple mapframes. Default: not specified
    • <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" id="" style="" inline="1">auto</syntaxhighlight> – switch geomasks found in (P276) and (P131) statements on the page's Wikidata item, searching recursively. E.g. an item's city, that city's state, and that state's country.
    • <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" id="" style="" inline="1">geomasks</syntaxhighlight> – switch between the geomasks specified as a comma-separated list of Wikidata items (Q-numbers) in the geomask parameter
    • <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" id="" style="" inline="1">zooms</syntaxhighlight> – switch between "zoomed in"/"zoomed midway"/"zoomed out", where "zoomed in" is the default zoom (with a minimum of <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" id="" style="" inline="1">3</syntaxhighlight>), "zoomed out" is <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" id="" style="" inline="1">1</syntaxhighlight>, and "zoomed midway" is the average
• Other optional parameters:
  • frame-width or width – Frame width. Default: 270
  • frame-height or height – Frame height. Default: 200
  • shape-fill – Color used to fill shape features. Default: #606060
  • shape-fill-opacity – Opacity level of shape fill, a number between 0 and 1. Default: 0.5
  • stroke-color or stroke-colour – Color of line features, and outlines of shape features. Default: #ff0000
  • stroke-width – Width of line features, and outlines of shape features; default is "5". Default: 5
  • marker – Marker symbol to use for coordinates; see mw:Help:Extension:Kartographer/Icons for options. Default: not specified (i.e. blank)
    • Can also be set to <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" id="" style="" inline="1">blank</syntaxhighlight> to override any default marker symbol
  • marker-color or marker-colour – Background color for the marker. Default: #5E74F3
  • geomask-stroke-color or geomask-stroke-colour – Color of outline of geomask shape. Default: #555555
  • geomask-stroke-width – Width of outline of geomask shape. Default: 2
  • geomask-fill – Color used to fill outside geomask features. Default: #606060
  • geomask-fill-opacity – Opacity level of fill outside geomask features, a number between 0 and 1. Default: 0.5
  • zoom – Set the zoom level, from "1" (map of earth) to "18" (maximum zoom in), to be used if the zoom level cannot be determined automatically from object length or area. Default: 10
  • length_km or length_mi or area_km2 or area_mi2 – Determine zoom level by passing in object's length (in kilometres or miles) or area (in square kilometres or square miles). Default: not specified
  • frame-coordinates or frame-coord – Alternate latitude and longitude coordinates for initial placement of map, using {{coord}}. Default: derived from item coordinates
• Deprecated parameters
  • frame-lat or frame-latitude – Alternate latitude coordinate for initial placement of map; default is derived from item coordinates
  • frame-long or frame-longitude – Alternate longitude coordinate for initial placement of map; default is derived from item coordinates

Examples for use within templates

Expand Infobox hospital
{{Infobox hospital}} (as of 5 October 2019) <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">	image3 =	caption3 = </syntaxhighlight>

Expand Infobox power station
{{Infobox power station}} (as of 2 April 2019): <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">| image2 =	caption2 = </syntaxhighlight>

Expand Infobox Australian road
{{Infobox Australian road}} (as of 5 October 2019): <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">	data3 = </syntaxhighlight>

FAQ

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Q1: Where to file a bug report when there is a problem with the base map? (e.g. a missing lake)

A1: If the problem also occurs on OpenStreetMap, it needs to be fixed there. If the problem is only on Wikimedia's maps, it can be reported on Phabricator (you can log in with you Wikipedia account). See mw:How to report a bug for instructions (for the tags, use Maps). (Alternatively, you can try mw:Help talk:Extension:Kartographer)

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Q2: Where to report other bugs or problems with the maps?

A2: This may be a problem with the Wikipedia module, or it may be an underlying software bug (there are lots of those).

• If the problem also occurs when using plain <mapframe>...</mapframe> tags, then it should be reported on Phabricator (you can log in with you Wikipedia account). See mw:How to report a bug for instructions (for the tags, use Maps). (Alternatively, you can try mw:Help talk:Extension:Kartographer)
• If the problem only occurs with Wikipedia's template/module, or you're not sure, report it here. (Alternatively, you can try Wikipedia:Village pump (technical))

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Q3: Why does the thumbnail map render as a static image when viewing pages, but is interactive when editing pages?

A3: On Wikipedia, and most wikis other than Wikivoyage, the emdeded thumbnail is a static map, and the full screen map needs to be opened before the map can be zoomed or panned. This is for for performance reasons, and to present some content if javascript is disabled, and for printing.
That preview mode shows an interactive map is a bug, phab:T203863 (and also a performance issue). Further explanation can be found in the comments on phab:T202793.

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Q4: Why is a line or shape feature from OpenStreetMap not being shown?

A4: There are several possible causes:

• The feature on OSM needs to be tagged with the Wikidata id, per mw:Help:Extension:Kartographer/OSM. It is not enough to just set (P402) on the Wikidata item.
• Only certain OSM relations (those with type=multipolygon, type=route, type=waterway and type=boundary) can be used, and not others like buildings and public transport master routes. See mw:Help:Extension:Kartographer/OSM#Limitation and phab:T156433.
• It can take 1 or 2 days after tagging on OSM before the data is available here.
• Wikimedia occasionally has problems replicating OSM data (e.g. phab:T218097), or intentionally disables replication due to other problems (e.g. phab:T243609)

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Q5: Why are line, shape, or point features are not shown after editing or adding a map, even though they were shown in the page preview?

A5: This is a bug related to generating thumbnail map images. It should fix itself in an hour or two. See phab:T269984 for details.

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Q6: A page using mapframe's |raw= parameter is showing error messages of "The time allocated for running scripts has expired." What can be done?

A6: If the amount of raw data to be processed is too large, that timeout message may be shown. You can try moving the raw data to Commons (example) or replacing the mapframe template with the equivalent wikitext using Special:ExpandTemplates (example)

Template data

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Infobox mapframe in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Infobox mapframe

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<templatedata> { "params": { "mapframe": { "aliases": [ "alias" ], "label": "mapframe", "description": "=yes will create a map", "type": "boolean", "default": "no" }, "mapframe-caption": {}, "mapframe-custom": {}, "qid": {}, "coordinates": {}, "mapframe-wikidata": {}, "mapframe-shape": {}, "mapframe-point": {}, "mapframe-line": {}, "mapframe-geomask": {}, "mapframe-switcher": {}, "mapframe-frame-width": {}, "mapframe-frame-height": {}, "mapframe-shape-fill": {}, "mapframe-shape-fill-opacity": {}, "mapframe-stroke-color": {}, "mapframe-stroke-width": {}, "mapframe-marker": {}, "mapframe-marker-color": {}, "mapframe-geomask-stroke-color": {}, "mapframe-geomask-stroke-width": {}, "mapframe-geomask-fill": {}, "mapframe-geomask-fill-opacity": {}, "mapframe-zoom": {}, "mapframe-length_km": {}, "mapframe-length_mi": {}, "mapframe-area_km2": {}, "mapframe-area_mi2": {}, "mapframe-frame-coordinates": {} } } </templatedata>

See also

• Wikipedia:Maps for Wikipedia, a list of mapping tools available on Wikipedia

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