Maps examples/Google Maps shapes (points, circles, lines, rectangles and polygons)

Usage of the points, circles, lines, rectangles and polygons parameters. Creating polygons manually can be rather tedious without visual aid, hence we have the MapEditor special page with which the below example was created.

{{#display_map:
 52.429222277955134,13.359375~Capital of Germany~Crazy people here!~ ~ ~Berlin; 53.38332836757156,3.33984375; 52.5897007687178,2.548828125; 52.855864177853995,3.515625; 53.33087298301704,1.7578125
 |circles=57.42129439209404,23.90625:326844.60518253763~I'm a circle~of doom!
 |polygons=62.103882522897855,5.09765625:58.309488840677645,5.712890625:58.95000823335702,10.8984375:61.68987220046001,12.83203125:63.35212928507874,11.865234375:64.1297836764257,13.974609375:65.58572002329473,14.326171875:68.56038368664157,18.28125:68.52823492039876,20.126953125:69.2249968541159,20.56640625:69.2249968541159,21.708984375:68.6245436634471,23.466796875:69.00567519658819,25.400390625:69.96043926902487,26.630859375:70.1403642720717,28.564453125:69.25614923150721,28.828125:69.83962194067463,31.201171875:70.75796562654924,29.8828125:71.10254274232307,25.576171875:70.72897946208789,22.67578125:69.99053495947653,18.10546875:67.84241647327927,13.095703125:68.33437594128185,15.908203125:63.704722429433225,9.4921875:63.782486031165014,8.61328125~Meanwhile in Norway~ ~#0B4173~ ~ ~#3373CC
|lines=53.225768435790194,23.466796875:53.9560855309879,29.1796875:56.46249048388979,31.11328125:59.31076795603884,30.673828125:60.84491057364915,27.333984375:60.930432202923335,21.26953125:59.17592824927136,16.611328125:56.218923189166624,16.259765625:54.1109429427243,19.599609375:53.225768435790194,23.466796875~You're serrounded!~ ~#B0920C
 |rectangles=51.83577752045248,33.837890625:46.37725420510028,23.37890625~I'm a square
 |centre=Denkmark
 |zoom=4
 |height=500
 |service=googlemaps3
}}

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