Tracker Geocoding DOES NOT work.

• Error
• Usability

This is an issue that has been pervasive since Tiki 3.x through 5.3. I believe I had advocated for the need to have a usable Google Geolocator comparable w/Mediawiki (SMW Mapping). I have included a screen shot of both how Tiki displays the mapping and my other site in Mediawiki.

Here's the deal: If you go to Google Maps for a tracker situation in Tiki it first kicks you to another page. This, in and of itself is a problem; however, can be fairly easily overcome. The real problem is that the geocoder does not work! Let me explicitly describe this: you click the Find Address button and nothing happens. So, why put the feature in? Even if it did work, you are now on another page, so you've lost your train of thought and have to click a BACK button which does not exist.

I spoke with folks on this; we even sent folks up to several TikiFests to describe in person during Tiki 3.x. My opinion is that displaying visual locations is more crucial than bells and whistles such as 3D, Web Conferencing, etc. Collaboration is great, but take the simple aspects of displaying (in a definitive, user friendly aspect) where the next TikiFest will be. I mean a person in Germany may not know where Kallispel, Montana, is.

I fervently believe that the ability to both geocode on the same page and display samesaid page is integral to any type of wiki.

With that said, I commend the coders for moving this far with the mapping.

Paul wrote: "Pull the coding from mediawiki, as its all open source, and incorporate it into Tiki."

Marc answers: "It's not that simple. 1- the licenses are not compatible. MediaWiki is GPL, Tiki is LGPL 2- What was needed/missing was mostly a project to fund the revamp of this feature. And this happened via the CartoGraf project: http://profiles.tiki.org/CartoGraf Also, we are using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenLayers which is very helpful (and an appropriate license). At the stage we are at now, it's a good time to show examples of what MediaWiki can do and we can see how to do them as well. Thanks!"

This bug has been demonstrated on show2.tiki.org

Please demonstrate your bug on show2.tiki.org

This bug has been demonstrated on show.tikiwiki.org

Please demonstrate your bug on show.tikiwiki.org