No changes have been made to the Maps extension following your bug report about the Http class. If the name of the class has changes in MediaWiki core, then the extension will fail. I'll have

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a look at it for the next release, to make sure nothing breaks.

The issue you describe is caused by the geocoding of the provided address(es) failing. Make sure your proxy settings are correct, so the geocoding service is reachable.

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No changes have been made to the Maps extension following your bug report about
the Http class. If the name of the class has changes in MediaWiki core, then
the extension will fail. I'll have

Note, backwards compatibility is maintained so the old HttpRequest will still work (but you should be using MWHttpRequest if possible). However with that said, Semantic maps used Http::get which is a wrapper around HttpRequest (now MWHttpRequest), so semantic maps should not have to change anything at all on that front.

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Note, backwards compatibility is maintained so the old HttpRequest will still
work (but you should be using MWHttpRequest if possible). However with that
said, Semantic maps used Http::get which is a wrapper around HttpRequest (now
MWHttpRequest), so semantic maps should not have to change anything at all on
that front.

Oh, ok, that's nice.

This bug report is purely about failing geocoding service then. I'm afraid I can't really do much about that. You can try switching the used geocoding service. I'm open to suggestions on how to improve the geocoding capabilities.

corneelbooysen wrote:

It seems the problem was that I was testing the code on a private server.

I moved it to a public server and the Map extension is now working fine.
http://semanticstreams.com/wiki117/index.php?title=New_York

Thanks for all the help... I am new to this. :-)

Corneel.