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The standard style for OpenStreetMap, like most Web maps, uses the Web Mercator projection. Web Mercator, Google Web Mercator, Spherical Mercator, WGS 84 Web Mercator [1] or WGS 84/Pseudo-Mercator is a variant of the Mercator map projection and is the de facto standard for Web mapping applications. It rose to prominence when Google Maps adopted ...
marker_size marker-size no The size (height and width) of the marker image that is placed. Default is 7 pixels wide. If the size is set to 0, then no image will be shown. It is assumed the shown marker image is a square so the height is equal to its width.
A tiled web map, slippy map [1] (in OpenStreetMap terminology) or tile map is a map displayed in a web browser by seamlessly joining dozens of individually requested image or vector data files. It is the most popular way to display and navigate maps, replacing other methods such as Web Map Service (WMS) which typically display a single large ...
No description. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status url url the URL for the Google Map URL required access-date access-date the full retrieval date Example 2024-08-09 Date suggested title title Give a title for the map; otherwise, it will be the article name. Example Sydney Opera House String optional ...
New for 2024, label-size can have additions to place a background fill and/or an outline around a label. text-size=12,background will use the standard background map-color as a solid fill under the area of the text - handy if the label is being confused by other map details.
It was created by Keyhole, Inc, which was acquired by Google in 2004. KML became an international standard of the Open Geospatial Consortium in 2008. [1] [2] Google Earth was the first program able to view and graphically edit KML files, but KML support is now available in many GIS software applications, such as Marble, [3] QGIS, [4] and ArcGIS ...
One can think of geographical features as the "source code" behind a map, whereas the WMS interface or online tiled mapping portals like Google Maps return only an image, which end-users cannot edit or spatially analyze.
Google Maps is an example of a web application that uses Ajax techniques. A web client, such as a web browser, can act as its own server, accessing data from many different servers, such as Gopher, FTP, NNTP (Usenet) and HTTP, to build a page. HTTP supports uploading documents from the client back to the server.