+General purpose
Wikibivouac is proudly powered by OpenLayers. OpenLayers is an open source javascript library that makes map creation accessible to anyone. OpenLayers relies on the concept of map, layers and features. You instanciate a map with its controller (navigation, zoom, layers switcher). You add layers and per layer you load data from the web mapping services (as google maps for instance) of your choice. And in the layers you can add features as markers, polylines and polygons.
+Contribution
A Wikibivouac User enters information into a html+javascript form. This data, particularly the address, is parsed thru geocoder (a google web service to tranlate addresses into gps coordinates). Then all the information are treated and stored in a MySQL database.
+Navigation
The wikibivouac markers are retrieved from the database using PHP, then data is treated to be added into a javascript array. Wikibivouac implements openlayers to loop the javascript markers’s array to plot points with detailed info embedded in clickable pop ups.
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