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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.
This template is primarily intended for the mass conversion of coordinate sets in lists. For individual sets of coordinates, the online conversion tool provided by Swisstopo may be preferred. For extended documentation, see de:Vorlage:CH1903-WGS84, from where this template has been copied.
Encodes the latitude and longitude coordinates of a location, provides a link to map of the location. This template does not work well with the Visual Editor, consider using {{coordDec}} for signed decimal degrees, {{coordDMS}} when degrees minutes and seconds are specified {{coordDM}} when only degrees and minutes are specified. To use this template you will need to use positional parameter ...
The coordinate format can be chosen via Tools → Options → 3D View → Show Lat/Long. There are many ways to obtain coordinates: Move the mouse pointer to where you want, then use the keyboard to select the Menu item Edit → Copy View Location to copy the coordinates to the clipboard. More convenient is the associated keyboard shortcut.
[[Category:Coordinates conversion templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page. Otherwise, add <noinclude>[[Category:Coordinates conversion templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character.
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 ).
Geographic coordinate conversion has applications in cartography, surveying, navigation and geographic information systems. In geodesy, geographic coordinate conversion is defined as translation among different coordinate formats or map projections all referenced to the same geodetic datum. [1]
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 ...