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== Google maps ==
To create new or edit existing Google maps on pages, click on the map button httphttps://www.madacamp.com/extensions/GoogleMaps/images/button_map_open.gif above the edit box.
Find the region to display, set the various size and display options and thereafter copy the resulting <googlemap>...<googlemap> code into the edit box and save the page.
Various display options include satellite view, map view, adding of place markers, drawing lines etc.
== Google paths ==
Go to maps.google.com
Click menu in top left corner -> Your places -> MAPS
Click CREATE MAP (bottom left of screen)
Click Import
Select a track on the computer (eg. Track_AMBOHIMANGA-IVATO.gpx) and
drag and drop into the Upload space
Click on the upper three dots
Export to KML/KMZ
Select "Export to a .KML file (full icon support use .KMZ)."
Download
Click Save File, to eg. FILENAME.gpx
In the file, there is a list of coordinates:
<pre><nowiki><coordinates></nowiki>
50.1606086176,-14.2578310333,12.63
50.1606914308,-14.2576493975,11.67
etc.
</coordinates></pre>
Run geoconvert.sh FILENAME.gpx to change format to:
<pre>
-14.2578310333, 50.1606086176
-14.2576493975, 50.1606914308
etc.
</pre>
Copy into a new Google map, eg.:
<pre><nowiki><googlemap version="0.9" lat="-19.105844" lon="47.33697" height="750"
controls="large" style="width:100%;max-width:600px;">
</nowiki>
2#B2FCFF00
-14.2578310333, 50.1606086176
-14.2576493975, 50.1606914308
etc.
<nowiki></googlemap></nowiki></pre>
Placemarker icons are done separately above the path code
== Scalable maps ==
== Adding RSS news feeds to pages ==
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) allows importing summaries and corresponding links to news articles. For example, a Google [httphttps://news.google.com news search] for any keyword or phrase can be imported. HOwever, Google does not include RSS feed URLs directly on their search result pages but it's not complicated to piece together the relevant feed URLs. For example, a search for the phrase "madagascar lemurs" can be included on a page as follows:
<pre><rss template="Google-feed" filterout="movie penguins">httphttps://news.google.com/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=%22madagascar+lemurs%22&cf=all&output=rss</rss></pre>
The output of this news search for the phrase ''madagascar lemurs'', filtering out results with the terms ''penguins'' and ''movie'', becomes:
<rss template="Google-feed" filterout="movie penguinsdeprecated">https://news.google.com/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=%22madagascar+lemurs%22&cf=all&output=rss</rss>
Other non-Google RSS feeds may include a feed icon [[File:RSS_icon.png|14px]] to indicate the whereabouts of RSS feeds.
To display a video from YouTube on this site, extract and copy the relevant video ID that is part of a YouTube URL, e.g.
[httphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OKs7qpJvRI&feature=related httphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<font color="#bd0000">vDYzsT3d06I</font>&feature=related] and place in the edit form as follows:
<nowiki><HTML5video type="youtube" width="600" height="338">vDYzsT3d06I</HTML5video></nowiki>
