Well, the big advantage of widgets is that you can look at the source code. As it says in the Livecode Lesson ( http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/1005132-how-do-i-modify-a-livecode-widget ),

What do you do if a LiveCode widget is missing a property or message you need?

The source code for all the widgets provided 'out of the box' is accessible so you can take those widgets as a base and improve and extended them as you need.

Unfortunately, there is a non-obvious meaning to "out of the box" - what it means is "source code for all the widgets provided 'out of the box' *in the community version* is accessible ..."

So, sadly, you can't just go look at the source code to find out what you need.

However, in the dictionary under "Guide" you can find some more info / example about the map widget. In particular, it defines the format used for  region, coordinates, span and markers - which is probably all that you need (I think all the others parameters in the API are booleans).

Disclaimer: I have never used the map widget - everything I say here is taken at face value from the doc and the visible files within the widget folder of 9.6.0(rc1)

Alex.

On 25/05/2020 21:57, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote:
Back to my problems with inadequate documentation on widgets. The Map widget is 
probably very powerful, but the Dictionary entry simple tells you the names of 
the parameters. I can’t work out anything about the format of the data you can 
feed in, or what it looks like when it comes out. There isn’t even enough info 
to start a meaningful experiment, IMHO.

Does anyone know of a source of helpful documentation on this? I am as ever 
interested in the iOS version.

Thanks for any info.

Graham
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