Google Maps Plugin

This plugin seems to fail for any address outside the USA

I went to maps.google.com, put in the address and it recommended a different (but correct) address - I then pasted that in to the macro body and the macro still failed to display the location.

We should at least add a way to skip the geocoding step and provide an ICBM address directly.

I botched my Google Map key for my site. How do I dump the first one I put in a new one? That is without resorting to hacking of the database?

I'm a bit confused as to what this does. Does it add a link that will open up a map, or does it include the map itself in the page? The examples show the use without the result!

'cause I want the former, not the latter.

Just wanted to check if anyone else was seeing a failure of this plugin when using Internet Explorer (on PC) - only just noticed myself as I normally use FF (on both mac & PC). One of my colleagues (who's used the API before) seemed to think it was probably a bug in IE where the javascript has to be in a particular position on a page as mentioned here

Confluence v2.2-dr2 Build #510 (on Mac OS X 10.4.6), FF v1.5.03 on Mac & PC, IE v6.0.2900.2180 on Windows XP SP2

I can get the macro to work just fine in IE.
Firefox however presents me with a blank page.
Any clues?

Is it possible that our Confluence install is possibly bad? As I said - the map renders fine in IE 6 and IE 7 and Firefox with IE Tab on a PC. We get a blank page in all browsers on a Mac.

OK - I think I figured it out. It looks like the Builder Plugin is what is causing the blank page. I created a space without Builder and the map renders just fine.  In addition, in IE - with Builder and the map. the Builder menu doesn't render but the map does.

I can't get this to work for UK addresses no matter how I format it. It doesn't work even if I get the geocode co-ordinates:

Error locating address: Waterloo Road, Lambeth, SE1, UK
Error locating address: Waterloo Road, Lambeth, UK
Error locating address: Waterloo Road, Lambeth, Greater London, SE1, UK
Error locating address: -0.112503,51.504278
Error locating address: 51.504278,-0.112503
Error locating address: -0.1105, 51.5027

Does anyone have any ideas on getting around this?

Cheers!

With this plugin is there a way to display a large scale map with many points to display static on the map? It would work sweet for our confluence site to display all of our customers across the US.

 Good work Atlassan, your stuff is priceless to our company.

Troy 

Tried to run the macro in a space and received the following error:

com.opensymphony.xwork.config.ConfigurationException: There is no Action mapped for namespace /admin/plugins/gmaps and action name configure
 at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionProxy.(DefaultActionProxy.java:72)

Running the 0.2 version with:

Build Information:
Confluence Home: /var/www/confluence
Uptime: 2 days, 23 hours, 11 minutes, 38 seconds
Version: 2.2.7
Build Number: 524

Server Information:
Application Server: Apache Tomcat/5.5.12
Servlet Version: 2.4
Database Dialect: bucket.dialect.MySQLDialect
Database Driver Name: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
Database Driver Version: 3.0

Memory Information:
Total Memory: 319 MB
Free Memory: 155 MB
Used Memory: 164 MB

System Information:
System Date: Thursday, 24 Aug 2006
System Time: 13:23:03
System Favourite Colour: Taupe
Java Version: 1.5.0_05
Java Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
JVM Version: 1.0
JVM Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
JVM Implementation Version: 1.5.0_05-b05
Java Runtime: Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition
Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM
User Name: tomcat
User Timezone: America/Los_Angeles
Operating System: Linux 2.6.9-22.ELsmp
OS Architecture: i386
Filesystem Encoding: UTF-8

Another great feature here - the ability to map multiple addresses or lat/longs.
Right now I have a custom application to do this ...

I don't have commit privileges on this plugin, but I was able to hack together some new features and I've put the revised source code on the JIRA page for this plugin. Now international addresses can be mapped (except UK but I don't know why) and "plain language" locations can be mapped. If you can search it on Google Maps, you can also find it with my changes. For example, these locations now work:

Tallaght Ireland
Hyde Park Illinois

Has anyone gotten this to work with Confluence 2.3? Once I got around not being able to configure it via the repository, all I get is this:

I'm a confluence newbie, so I'm not sure where to find the stack trace (I checked all files ending with .log).

I am working with a brand new installation of confluence, evaluating it.  After reading through the preloaded pages, I started installing some interesting looking plugins.

 After installing but not using the Excel plugin, I installed this google maps plugin.  Immediately, I got and error with this cause listed:

org.apache.velocity.exception.MethodInvocationException: Invocation of method 'getActionName' in class com.atlassian.confluence.user.actions.LoginAction threw exception class java.lang.NullPointerException : null
 at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTMethod.execute(ASTMethod.java:309) caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
 at com.atlassian.plugin.impl.StaticPlugin.getResourceDescriptors(StaticPlugin.java:128)

My confluence install is now unuseable.  How do I bring it back to life? 

I installed the google map plugins to version 2.3.3, enter a map API key, and it worked for the address I first entered.  Then I tried to change the address to a different one, it gave me an error:

Error locating address: 11100 Johns Hopkins Rd, Laurel, MD

We know this is a valid address, I also tried other addresses, they all have the same problem.
My question is: how to re-configure the google map plugin, how to re-install an API key?
Thanks

• Ming

Hello, a few issues:

1) I tried displaying a map on IE7, and the map appears, but the pin doesn't -- I get a black splotch instead -- any ideas? Works fine in Firefox though.

2) I can't seem to display two maps on the same page.

3) Addresses as mentioned above (just a city or state) still give an "Error locating address" message. The coordinates seem to check out okay after running through the geocoder, but somehow the map doesn't display.

Any ideas? Would really appreciate some help and comments

Google maps Australia support would be nice after their relaunch, I've added a Jira issue here: http://developer.atlassian.com/jira/browse/GMAP-4

I'm willing to help out fix this, msg me if interested.

Google maps plugin should now work with confluence 2.3 again. Also try out new non US addresses, like "Sydney, Australia". Ming, I've tried your address "11100 Johns Hopkins Rd, Laurel, MD" and it works for me. Please let me know if you have any well formed addresses that do work in google maps and don't work in the plugin.

Any chance we could get this plugin updated to support proxied environments?  Our Confluence server does not have direct access to the Internet and even going through a proxy (from the server) is questionable.  It would be nice if the geocoding part could either be done client-side or bypassed (i.e. by entering the geocoordinates rather than the address).  Any chance on getting this feature added?

Added another release (0.4). You can now select 'maptype=Satellite' or 'maptype=Hybrid' for google earth satellite photography overlays.

Also new are the 'zoom', 'controls' and 'marker' attributes.

Zoom (1-17) comes in handy if you have smaller maps as google renders them pretty bad at a low zoom level.

Controls defaults to true and hides the map controls when set to false, same goes for the 'marker' attribute and the map marker.

Double clicking into the map should now zoom in/out with the left and right mouse buttons.

I'm struggling to get UK addresses working...any ideas? Have the latest version of the plugin (0.4), API key installed and international places such as "Sydney, Australia" work OK. I'm on standalone version 2.2.8

Has anyone got this working and offer me any clues? Any help gratefully rec'd.

PC. 

Any possibility of adding the ability input an KML file (as an attachment) so you can display multiple locations?

We'd like to be able to display a list map of our current customers, prospects, etc all on one map.

Running Version: 2.5.3 Build:#808  and UK lookups still don't work, German ones do, French ones do, even Beligian ones do, but the UK seems to be blank...

I get an error on the page (IE7) when I try a UK location, which I don't get with anywhere else that I've tried.

Line: 314
Char: 87
Error: 'null' is null or not an object
Code: 0
URL: http://f.q.d.n/display/space/page

Firefox doesn't display the error

I am able to zoom out and scroll the map to the UK, as long as it starts somehere that is recognised

edit: http://www.yourgmap.com/ appears to have the same problem, I wonder if there has been an API change...

Having trouble with this plugin:

When I insert a gmap, it displays the zoom bars, the buttons for sat/map/hybrid, but no map.

I had installed a key for www.site.name/display at the Google Maps API page... is that right?

Help would be appreciated - and someone please let me know if there is a more appropriate place to be asking for help with this.

Thx

same here

Char: 87
Error: 'null' is null or not an object
Code: 0

since last monday here (europe, netherlands) the gmap plugin stopped functioning , just controls no map.

only tested with MSIE-7. Seems a google side change.

Hi All,

As far as I can tell, it appears that the call to enable dragging on the map causes the map to fail to load (i.e. the controls are loaded but the actual map does not).

 Recompiling the plugin without the line (19):

map.enableDragging(); 

seems to fix the problem.

Cheers,

Keith 

Where can you get the source for this plugin ? The link above is empty ? i would like to recompile with the sugested exclusion.

Update:  Keith Brophy provided the recompiled version, it works again (in MSIE 7) and this version is attached gmaps-confluence-plugin-0.4-modified.jar .

Anyone have any luck with this? I have installed the modified version (.4-modified) and have not been able to get any browser to work, I just get a blank googlemaps template (with the "Map/Satellite/Hybrid" and zoom in out buttons.  

This bug is now being officially tracked by Atlassian:

 http://developer.atlassian.com/jira/browse/GMAP-5

Bill

I've rebuilt & released Keith's fix (thanks Keith!) as 0.4.1

Anyone know why I can't have to instance of "gmaps" tag on one page?

Andy,

without having done any research that's probably got to do with the Javascript implementation on the client using global variables - they get in each other's way. I couldn't get 2 maps to work either, for now all I can recommend is putting them on separate pages.

S.

For some reason, I just can't seem to get this to work.  I'm sure it's just me doing something dumb. Every time I try to access a page with a map on it, I get this error:

 "The Google Maps API key used on this web site was registered for a different web site."

I've tried every URL I can think of when generating the API key with no luck.

The actual URL of the Confluence installation looks like this:

http://name-of-server.mydomain.com:8090/

My Server Base URL is set to:

http://confluence.mydomain.com/

I also have Apache on my server set to proxy the "http://confluence.mydomain.com/" URL to "http://name-of-server.mydomain.com:8090/".

One question I have about this is that the server I'm running Confluence on sits in our internal network, behind our firewall.  The site is not accessible from the outside.  Could that be the issue?

What URL do I need to use when generating my API key? 

We have version 2.5.6 installed and it is having this same problem: "The Google Maps API key used on this web site was registered for a different web site."

Our site is behind a firewall, but shouldn't it still work?  I just installed it today, so it has never worked for me, but it would be very valuable if it did.  Any information on a workaround/solution would be appreciated.

Google suggests they support a single "directory" on the web server you signed up for, i.e http://www.site.com/directory. I don't know if this is new in the maps API, but it sounds like it could be the cause of what people have reported.

They also launched an enterprise version of google maps for applications. I need to research this further, stay tuned.

looks like they have indeed changed the license and it is no longer free except for public noncommercial websites. This would explain keys going "poof" for different URLs than the registered one. Google maps has come out of beta this year, I suspect that's why the enterprise version. Maybe someone from Atlassian can comment on the situation? do we need an enterprise license for this plugin to work?

I saw these 2 issues with gmap:

• if used inside {expand} the location of the address is not correctly centered on the map, completely out of view.

• if used before {rsvp}, the map can not be displayed, completely blank, if used after it's OK.

For anyone that wants to add multiple markers on the map - showing several addresses - now you can!

Currently Atlassian doesn't support this, to do it I've edited the velocity template - to show locations and their name.

So you would enter

{gmap} Eugene | San Francisco, CA
Hawaii | Maui, HI
MGM | Las  Vegas, CA {gmap}

And this will display multiple locations and their names.

To enable this - you will have to edit gmaps-macro.vm that is is inside templates directory.

There, replace the logic that sets the marker with this code:

original template code
....................

   //#else
            //map.disableDragging();
        #end
        //geoCode address and show map

## BEGIN NEW CODE
		  #set($addresses = $address.split("\n")  )

		  #foreach($addressAndMarker in $addresses)

			#if($addressAndMarker.indexOf("|") > -1)
		  		#set($locName  =  	$addressAndMarker.substring(0, $addressAndMarker.indexOf("|")) )
		  		#set($beginIndex =  ($addressAndMarker.indexOf("|") + 1))
		  		#set($locAddress = 	$addressAndMarker.substring($beginIndex) )
			#else
				#set($locName = "Address:")
				#set($locAddress = $addressAndMarker)
		  	#end
        geocoder.getLatLng("$locAddress",
            function(point) {
                map.setCenter(point, $zoom);
                #if($controls)
                    map.enableDoubleClickZoom();
                #end
                #if ($marker)
                    var marker = new GMarker(point);
                    map.addOverlay(marker);
                    GEvent.addListener(marker, 'click', function() {

                    marker.openInfoWindowHtml("<b>$locName</b><br>$locAddress");

                    });
                #end

            }
        );
        #end
        //end of loop
         //set maptype
         var maptype = getMapTypeForName(map, "$maptype");
         map.setMapType(maptype);
        //]]>
   }

##END NEW CODE

This worked for me.

There is a jira ticket for adding this functionality :

http://developer.atlassian.com/jira/browse/GMAP-3

After adding more and more addresses to the page, (after 10 addresses to be more precise), you will start noticing that your other addresses are not appearing.

This happens because for every request to geocoder you are getting error code 620 - geocoder only allows for 1 address lookup per second. Even timing the requests is a bit tricky still. So what I am doing now is I get the lat/long coordinates for each address and then append it to the address. So lets say you added 6 new addresses to your wiki page - after the requests came back from geocoder with their coordinates, you will see them displayed below the map. You would then copy them and edit the page again, replacing your address string with new one that you copied.

Long story short - this works well, just requires a little bit of extra collaborative work from your users. Here's the complete velocity template *gmaps-macro.vm*, you would want to edit it slightly - change the center of the map. And replace the template inside the jar file with it.

#if ($googleApiKeys.size() > 0)

<script type="text/javascript">
var googleApiKeys = new Array();

#foreach ($hostKeyPair in $googleApiKeys)
googleApiKeys['$hostKeyPair.host'] = '$hostKeyPair.key';
#end

var url = "http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=2&key=" + googleApiKeys[window.location.host];
document.write('<script src="' + url + '" type="text/javaScript"><\/script>');
</script>


<div id="map" style="width: ${width}px; height: ${height}px"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
//Eugene Neymark 2008 
//adding new functions to enable display of multiple markers on the map
//per google api license, geocoder can only accept 1 address lookup per second. 
//when adding new locations to wiki, plugin will issue geocoder requests 
//when we get the response back from geocoder, we will write out coordinates, 
//so next time we won't have to make lookup again

//make a marker to put on the map      
function addMarker(point,html) {
  var marker = new GMarker(point);
  GEvent.addListener(marker, 'click', function() { marker.openInfoWindowHtml(html); });
  return marker;
}

//this gets called when geocoder request returns 
function callback() {
	requests.pop();
	if(requests.length == 0) 
		displayMarkers();
}

//places a marker on the map
function placeMarker(lat, lng, html){
	var point = new GLatLng(lat,lng);
	var marker = addMarker(point,html);
	map.addOverlay(marker);
}

//display the markers on map, if marker was just retrieved from geocoder - display coordinates
function displayMarkers() {
	for (var i = 0; i < markers.length; i++) {
		try {
			var address = markers[i].address;
			var label = markers[i].label;
			var html = "<b>" + label +"</b><br>" + address;
			//we have the coordinates
			if(markers[i].latlng != "") {
				var lat = markers[i].latlng.split(",")[0];
				var lng = markers[i].latlng.split(",")[1];
				placeMarker(lat, lng, html);	
			} else {	//no coordinates..
				var point = cache.get(address);
				//we got something from cache - lets see what it is
				if(point && point.Placemark && point.Placemark.length > 0) {
					//got a point with placemark. sweeet
			 		var place = point.Placemark[0]
		    		placeMarker(place.Point.coordinates[1],place.Point.coordinates[0],html);
		    		//write out coordinates to enable optimization
		    		document.getElementById("mapCoordinates").innerHTML += label + "|" + address
		    		 + "|" + place.Point.coordinates[1]+ "," + place.Point.coordinates[0] +"<br>";
				}
				else if(point && point.Status && point.Status.code == 620) {
					//620 means we were sending too many requests too fast 
					document.getElementById("mapsErrorBox").innerHTML += address +" could not be mapped. too many simulataneous requests<br>";
				}
				else {
					//address not found
					alert("Unknown address, please check: " + address);
				}
			} //end of else - no coordinates
		} catch(e){alert("caugt an exception: " + e);}
   }//end of for loop
 }

 	//globals
	var cache = null;
	var geocoder = null;
	var map = null;
	var requests = [];
	var markers = [];
    
    window.onload = function(){
        //<![CDATA[
        map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("map"));
        geocoder = new GClientGeocoder();

        #if($controls)
            #if ($height.intValue() > 400)
            map.addControl(new GLargeMapControl());
            #else
            map.addControl(new GSmallMapControl());
            #end
            map.addControl(new GMapTypeControl());
            
			//take this out as per Keith Bropy causes maps not to load as of 07/2007 google maps API changes.
			//map.enableDragging();
        //#else
            //map.disableDragging();
        #end
        //geoCode address and show map   
             
        //set center of the map to redwood city  
        //****** Change it to fit your needs ********
		map.setCenter(new GLatLng(37.538074,-122.25358), $zoom);         
        
		#set($addresses = $address.split("\n")  )
		  
		  #foreach($addressAndMarker in $addresses) 

			#if($addressAndMarker.indexOf("|") > -1)
		  		#set($locName  =  	$addressAndMarker.substring(0, $addressAndMarker.indexOf("|")) )
		  		#set($toIndex =  ($addressAndMarker.indexOf("|") + 1))
		  		#set($locAddress = 	$addressAndMarker.substring($toIndex) )
				#set($latlng = "")				
				##do we have coordinates?  		
		  		#if($locAddress.indexOf("|") > -1)
					#set($toIndex =  ($locAddress.indexOf("|") + 1))		  			
		  			#set($latlng = $locAddress.substring($toIndex))
		  			#set($locAddress = 	$locAddress.substring(0, $locAddress.indexOf("|")) )
		  		#end
			#else
				#set($locName = "Address:")
				#set($locAddress = $addressAndMarker)
				
		    #end
        markers.push({address:"$locAddress",label:"$locName",latlng:"$latlng"});
        #end

	         
        //end of loop
        //set maptype
        var maptype = getMapTypeForName(map, "$maptype");
        map.setMapType(maptype);
		  
		cache = geocoder.getCache();

		//go through each marker and if coordinates are not there - send out request to geocoder to find them.
        for (var i = 0; i < markers.length; i++) {
			if(markers[i].latlng == "") {
				var address = markers[i].address;
				requests.push("sending request");
				//to prevent the error code 620 - we will try not to send all the requests at the same time
				var time = ((i+1)%6)*650;
				setTimeout("geocoder.getLatLng('" +address + "', callback)", time);	
			}//end of if latlng is not present
        } //end of for loop      

    		//if didnt send any requests, go display markers
 		if(requests.length == 0) 
			displayMarkers();       
        //]]>
   }//end of addonload

   function getMapTypeForName(map, name) {
	    var maps = map.getMapTypes();
	    for(var i=0;i<maps.length;i++) {
			if(maps[i].getName() == name) {
				return maps[i];
			}
		}
		//if it didn't work return the default type
		return maps[0];
   }

</script>
#else
<div class="errorBox" style="width: ${width}px; height: ${height}px">
    <p>
    An administrator must configure your server's Google API key before you can use the {gmaps} macro.
    </p>
    #if ($permissionHelper.isGlobalAdministrator($remoteUser))
    <p>
    <a href="$req.contextPath/admin/plugins/gmaps/configure.action">Configure API key &gt;&gt;</a>
    </p>
    #end
</div>
#end
<div id="mapsErrorBox">
</div>
<div id="mapCoordinates">
</div>

Hi, I don't have access to the gmaps-macro.vm. Was trying to create a user-macro (e.g., dcgmap) to see if I could do something similar. Tried to tweak the full code to meet my specific need but only received an error. Has anyone created someting that could allow us to use multiple locations by creating a custom user-macro instead? Please post OR email me directly khuffman (at) ngs.org

Hi,

 I am strying to get the gmaps plug in to work on my instance of confluence but having no luck - could someone please assist me?

I am hgoing to the "insert API" page and entering our root url for our iinstance which is http://mywiki.silentpartner.com.au/ and then going to http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html to get the key. When I save it then try the macro

i get an error that says:

"The google maps api key used on this website was resisted for a different web site. You can generate a new key at ....." 

Can anyone help?

Hi all,

i installed the latest Google Maps Plugin (gmaps-confluence-plugin-0.7.1.jar) in my Confluence Wiki (Version 2.9.1). Furthermore i obtained a test key to use the Google Maps API and registered the key within Confluence.

After embedding a marker, e.g. one of the described above i only see a Google Maps box with a message "An administrator must configure your servers Google API key before you can use the gmap macro" which i've already done so far ("Successfully saved API keys.").

I obtained a key for http://localhost:8080 -> Confluence runs under http://localhost:8080/mywiki/...
I also tried a key for http://myhost:8080 -> Confluence runs under http://myhost:8080/mywiki/...  (myhost == real host name)
I played around with it a while. The result is always a Google Maps box containing the message "An administrator must configure your servers Google API key before you can use the gmap macro".

My Wiki runs behind a firewall, but that shouldn't cause the problem. A small test of Google Maps API within a static web site runs successfully.

Any ideas? Is there any documentation for the latest (rewritten) plugin version?

Thanks for any help,
Steffen

The Google Maps Plugin (gmaps-confluence-plugin-0.7.1.jar) works for me, however some of the parameters are ignored:

• displaymap is without effect: always shows the hybrid map
• maptype and maptypecontrol is without effect: no controls are displayed

How is your experience? Are this bugs?

Cheers,

Bernd

Is it possible to have more than one {gmap} on a page? When I try this both maps display the content from the second {gmap}. I tried giving each instance a unique value for the name parameter but it did not seem to help.

have a little problem using this macro on a page with scaffold data.

does not work (well, maps showing, but with san francisco viewed instead of somehwere in germany)

{gmap}
{get-data:name=Lat}{get-data},{get-data:name=Long}{get-data}
{gmap}

if I remove the gmap macro, copy paste the data into gmap macro it renders

{gmap}
49.5,11.516667
{gmap}

any ideas`?

Jürgen