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Find the coordinates (generally latitude and longitude) of the geographic location you want to link; Select the template with the appropriate scale for the map to zoom into; Add the coordinates to the template using the template's format; Place the template reference into the article; Suggestions for accomplishing each step are below.
Find the feature or the location you want to know the geographical coordinates of, either by manually using the map and zooming in, or by entering a place name or address into the search field. Right -click on the map at the site where you want the pushpin to appear.
The HTML markup produced by this template emits an Geo microformat, which makes the location's coordinates (latitude & longitude) parsable, so that they can be, say, looked up on a map. As yet, the standard for doing this for off-world bodies is still under development, but is supported in some microformat parsers (e.g. Swignition ).
Articles (and coordinates) can be found through the pages using the templates in Category:Coordinates templates All coordinates are available for download in Wikipedia database dumps . To get the coordinates from the XML format dump of all articles (enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2, 4 GB), the dump needs to be parsed for pages containing ...
To change this template's initial visibility, the |state= parameter may be used: {{Geographical coordinates | state = collapsed}} will show the template collapsed, i.e. hidden apart from its title bar. {{Geographical coordinates | state = expanded}} will show the template expanded, i.e. fully visible.
To add to the top of an article, use {{}}, {{Coord|57|18|22|N|4|27|32|W|display=title}} These coordinates are in degrees, minutes, and seconds of arc. "title" means that the coordinates will be displayed next to the article's title at the top of the page (in desktop view only; title coordinates do not display in mobile view) and before any other text or images.
Sample catscan to resolve conflicts of coordinates for title line define in the main templates (Geolinks-start, coor title dm, coor at dm) and an infobox: CategoryIntersect tool (sample should find Italian cities likely to include Infobox CityIT and one of the other templates that place the coordinates: currently no conflicts)
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