Guide to including Interactive Maps in your Posts

OneClimate makes extensive use of interactive Google Maps - see the Guide to using Interactive Maps.

It is also possible to include maps in your own posts like this one which shows farmer's markets in aneighbourhood in North London. This guide will tell you how. We have to admit it's not as easy to do this as it might be, but rest assured we are working on simplifying the process. But, for now, this is how you do it.

To include a map you must insert some special text in the post which OneClimate interprets as an instruction to include a map. The special text starts with a square bracket , then "MAP" and ends with "][/MAP]" - in between these you put some parameters which control how big the map is, which part of the Earth it covers, and what the map shows. You have to separate each parameter with a semi-colon.

The parameters are:

CENTRE=longtitude,latitude, where longtitude and latitude are numbers between -180.0 and 180.0 degrees, for example CENTRE=-0.1350,51.5708

ZOOM=zoomno, where zoomno is a number between 1 and 18 which controls the scale of the map. 18 shows the whole world and 1 shows the most detailed local level. You'll probably have to experiment this to cover the area you want. An example would be ZOOM=4

SIZE=width, height, where width and height are the size of the map in pixels on the OneClimate web page. So, for example, SIZE=300,250 will mean the map will 300 pixels wide and 250 pixels high in your post.

LOCATIONS=(longtitude, latitude, description), (longtitude, latitude, description), .... which are the locations you want to show on the map with a pin - for each location you give the longtitude, latitude and a description. An example showing two locations would be LOCATIONS=(-0.13569831, 51.564586,Archway Farmers Market),(-0.1270,51.5707,Sunnyside Gardens Organic Market)

Putting this all together, the special text which creates the map in this guide page is:

Guide to Including Maps