User:Plowboylifestyle~metawiki/Extensions/rendermap

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A map overlay rendering extension is more complicated and not as necessary as its counterparts. This is an easy way to get some great functionality. A map can be provided by any image and the wiki can add the rest.

Here is a mockup of what its output could look like:

1. Bay Pines, Florida
2. Kenreth City, Florida
3. Madeira Beach, Florida
4. Lealman, Florida
5. Pinellas Park, Florida
6. Interstate 375
7. Redington Beach, Florida
8. Sunshine Skyway Bridge

9. Seminole, Florida
10. Treasure Island, Florida
11. University of South Florida St. Petersburg
12. Tropicana Field
13. Sunken Gardens
14. Stetson University School of Law
15. HMS Bounty
16. Salvador Dalí Museum

This extension is not a search engine. It is a display mechanism for overlaying geocoordinates onto images. And providing a key with links. (It is a good first step in creating a graphical geosearch special page.) This function is already being done well manually by many editors (see The National Mall). This extension would automate that task, standardizing that aspect of the maps and make them editable.