Topic on Extension talk:GeoData

This is my site installation

Product	Version
MediaWiki	1.32.0
PHP	7.2.17-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 (apache2handler)
MariaDB	10.1.38-MariaDB-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ICU	60.2
Elasticsearch	5.6.16

this is the LocalSettings.php configuration

wfLoadExtension( 'GeoData' );

$wgGeoDataBackend = 'elastic';

and this is the (partial) output of update.php script

...geo_tags table already exists.

...geo_killlist doesn't exist.

...coordinates are already DECIMAL in geo_tags.

When I try the new GeoData parser function (taken from Extension Page example):{{#coordinates:primary|26|04|N|178|46|E|}}

I get this Fatal error

Fatal error: The format of the coordinate could not be determined. Parsing failed.

What am I missed?

Any help is greatly appreciated

Do you have the 'Maps' extension installed? If so, this will cause the error.

Yeah, they both provide the #coordinates parser function:

• Extension:GeoData ...adds a new parser function, {{#coordinates:}}, that saves coordinates to the database.
• Extension:Maps ...provides the #coordinates parser function which allows conversion between all supported coordinate formats.

If you don't care about the GeoData part of this, you can edit Module:Coordinates on your own wiki, find the part that says this:

local function coord_wrapper(in_args)
	-- Calls the parser function {{#coordinates:}}.
	return mw.getCurrentFrame():callParserFunction('#coordinates', in_args) or ''
end

and replace it with this:

local function coord_wrapper(in_args)
	-- Calls the parser function {{#coordinates:}}.
	local result = mw.getCurrentFrame():callParserFunction('#coordinates', in_args)
	if string.find(result, "The format of the coordinate could not be determined") ~= nil then
		-- We wanted the #coordinates parser function from Extension:GeoData, 
		-- but we got the one from Extension:Maps instead :(
		result = nil
	end
	return result or ''
end

Thanks so much.

I'll give it a try.

I think Extension:Maps should opt to change the name of its function to something more relevant to its function, and clear the way for using both extensions simultanously.

That would be handy!