Template:Coord/doc

This template, {{coord}}, produces a link to a list of map sources, based on the geographical coordinates and other parameters, and provides a standardized notation for the coordinates.

The template is for WGS84 geographical coordinates (latitude;longitude) on Earth, which can be entered in either decimal notation, or degrees/minutes/seconds parameters, with the appropriate precision.

It links to Template:Coor URL, then displays the coordinates. Clicking the blue globe activates the WikiMiniAtlas (needs Javascript).

The template outputs data in:

• Degree/minutes/seconds ("DMS", precision is degrees, or degrees/minutes, or degrees/minutes/seconds, based on input)
• Decimal (precision by number of decimal places, based on input)
  • A computer-readable Geo microformat.

{{coord}} is used by tools which parse the raw Wikipedia database dumps, such as Google Earth. To ensure that the coordinates are parsed correctly display=title must be used. See How do I get my Wikipedia article to show up in the Google Earth Geographic Web layer?. The template must not be modified without prior discussion.

See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates.

Subtemplates

name	function
Coord/input/d	converts coordinates from input in degrees format {{coord|12|N|12|W}}
Coord/input/dm	converts coordinates from input in degrees/minutes format {{coord|12|12|N|12|12|W}}
Coord/input/dms	converts coordinates from input in degrees/minutes/seconds format {{coord|12|12|12|N|12|12|12|W}}
Coord/display/inline	creates output to display coordinates inline
Coord/display/title	creates output to display above the article (generally to the right of the article's title)
Coord/display/inline,title	creates output to display coordinates inline and above the article

Superseded templates

This single template supersedes {{coor d}}, {{coor dm}}, {{coor dms}}, {{coor at d}}, {{coor at dm}}, {{coor at dms}}, {{coor title d}}, {{coor title dm}}, {{coor title dms}}, and the Geolinks and Mapit templates. All parameters can be used as before - see Usage.

Examples:

{{coord|12|34|N|45|33|W|display=title}}	Replaces {{coor title dm|12|34|N|45|67|W}}
{{coord|12|34|12|N|45|33|45|W|display=inline,title}}	Replaces {{coor at dms|12|34|12|N|45|33|45|W}}
{{coord|10.2|-20.3|display=inline}} or {{coord|10.2|-20.3}}	Replaces {{coor d|10.2|N|-20.3|E}}
{{coord|44.4|-111.1|type:city_region:US|display=inline,title}}	Replaces {{Geolinks-US-cityscale|44.4|-111.1}}
{{coord|51.01234|-1.56789|type:landmark_region:GB|display=inline,title}}	Replaces {{Geolinks-UK-buildingscale|51.01234|-1.56789}}
{{coord|-35.5|150.1|type:landmark_region:AU|display=inline,title}}	Replaces {{Mapit-AUS-suburbscale|lat=-35.5|long=150.1}}

Display

By default coordinates are displayed in the format in which they are specified.

To always display coordinates as DMS values, add this to your monobook.css:

.geo-default { display: inline } .geo-nondefault { display: inline }
.geo-dec { display: none } .geo-dms { display: inline }

To always display coordinates as decimal values, add this to your monobook.css:

.geo-default { display: inline } .geo-nondefault { display: inline }
.geo-dec { display: inline } .geo-dms { display: none }

To display coordinates in both formats, add this to your monobook.css:

.geo-default { display: inline } .geo-nondefault { display: inline }
.geo-dec { display: inline } .geo-dms { display: inline }
.geo-multi-punct { display: inline }

If CSS is disabled, or you have an old copy of MediaWiki:Common.css cached, you will see both formats. (The cache for Common.css takes 31 days to expire, and the changes were made 2007-04-04. You can either clear your cache or manually refresh this URL: [1].)

See also Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Geographical coordinates.

Usage

{{coord|latitude|longitude|coordinate parameters|template parameters}}
{{coord|dd|N/S|dd|E/W|coordinate parameters|template parameters}}
{{coord|dd|mm|N/S|dd|mm|E/W|coordinate parameters|template parameters}}
{{coord|dd|mm|ss|N/S|dd|mm|ss|E/W|coordinate parameters|template parameters}}

There are two kinds of parameters, all optional:

• Coordinate parameters: Recognised by the map server, given in the format parameter:value and separated from each other with the underscore character '_'. Common coordinate parameters include type, region, and scale. See Coordinate Parameters for a comprehensive list.

• Template parameters: Used by the template itself, given in the format parameter=value and separated from each other with the pipe character '|'. The supported template parameters are display, name and format.
  • display can be one of the following:
    • display=inline - Display the coordinate inline (default)
    • display=title - Display the coordinate by the article title (replaces {{coor title dms}} family)
    • display=inline,title - Display the coordinate both inline and at title (replaces {{coor at dms}} family)
      Note: using the title attribute indicates that the coordinates apply to the article, and not just one of (perhaps many) places mentioned in it — so it should only be omitted in the latter case.
  • format can be used to force dec or dms coordinate display for all readers
  • name can be used to annotate inline coordinates for display in map services and other external use. It should not be used with coordinates in the article title or within an infobox, as in those cases the name is implicit from the article title.

Examples

{{coord|43.651234|-79.383333}}		Toronto - Fully decimal - N & W
{{coord|43.65|-79.38}}		Toronto - less precise
{{coord|43.6500|-79.3800}}		Toronto - medium precision with trailing zeroes
{{coord|43.651234|N|79.383333|W}}		Toronto - decimal with Northing & Westing
{{coord|43|29|N|79|23|W}}		Toronto - degrees & minutes
{{coord|43|29|4|N|79|23|0|W}}		Toronto - degrees, minutes & seconds
{{coord|43|29|4.5|N|79|23|0.5|W}}		Toronto - degrees, minutes, seconds & fractions of seconds
{{coord|55.752222|N|37.615556|E}}		Moscow - N & E
{{coord|55.752222|N|37.615556|E|format=dms}}		Convert to dms format
{{coord|39.098095|-94.587307|format=dms}}		Decimal conversion without N/S/E/W
{{coord|55.752222|N|37.615556|E|​format=dec|name=Moscow}}		Convert to decimal and label on some maps
{{coord|33|55|S|18|25|E}}		Cape Town - S & E
{{coord|35|00|N|105|00|E}}		China, People's Republic of
{{coord|22|54|30|S|43|14|37|W}}		Rio - S & W
{{coord|22|S|43|W}}		A degree confluence
{{coord|52|28|59|N|1|53|37|W|​display=inline,title|region:GB_type:city}}		Birmingham - with display and parameter settings; note display also in title of this page.

Coordinate Parameters

Following the geographical coordinate, further parameters can optionally be supplied, separated by underscores. This will help in finding suitable map resources, and will become more important when the Wikimaps become fully functional.

type:T

Sets the type of this location, which will be used for the reverse mapping of the points. Will also set the default map scale. Types are:

Type	Description	Scale
country	(e.g. "type:country")	1:10,000,000
state	Where applicable e.g. U.S. states	1:3,000,000
adm1st	Administrative unit of country, 1st level (province, county) e.g. County (United States), Cantons of Switzerland	1:1,000,000
adm2nd	Administrative unit of country, 2nd level	1:300,000
city(pop)	City, town or village with specified population. Commas will be ignored in pop. There should be no blanks.	1:30,000 ... 1:300,000
city	City, town or village, unspecified population. Will be treated as a minor city.	1:100,000
airport		1:30,000
mountain	peaks, mountain ranges	1:100,000
isle	Isles, islands	1:100,000
waterbody	Bays, fjords, lakes, reservoirs, ponds, lochs, loughs, meres, lagoons, estuaries, inland seas...	1:100,000
forest	Forests and woodlands	1:50,000
river	Rivers and canals	1:100,000
glacier	Glaciers, ice caps	1:50,000
edu	Schools, colleges, universities	1:10,000
pass	mountain passes	1:10,000
railwaystation	stations and stops of railway, train, railroad, metro, rapid transit, underground, subway, elevated railway, etc.	(1:10,000)
landmark	Cultural landmark, building of special interest, tourist attraction and other points of interest.	1:10,000

Scales in parentheses aren't yet defined in the extension.

Sample:

• {{coord|46|43|N|7|58|E|type:mountain}} gives

scale:N

Sets the desired map scale as 1:N. This will override the default scale. The scale: parameter can be omitted.

region:R

Sets the preferred map region of coverage, used in selecting appropriate map resources for the area. The region should be supplied as either a two character ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, or an ISO 3166-2 region code. Examples:

US United States US-NY United States, New York CA Canada DE Germany DE-TH Germany, Thuringia CH Switzerland FR France

GB United Kingdom IN India BR Brazil AU Australia NO-03 Oslo, Norway NL Netherlands LK Sri Lanka

Sample:

• {{coord|46.9524|N|7.4396|E|region:CH}} focuses the section for Switzerland at .
• {{coord|52.5164|N|13.3775|E|region:DE-BB}} focuses the section for Germany at .

globe:G

Specifies other worlds than Earth. Such as Moon.

source:S

Specifies, where present, the data source and data format/datum, and optionally the original data, presented in parentheses. This is initially primarily intended for use by geotagging robots, so that data is not blindly repeatedly copied from format to format and Wikipedia to Wikipedia, with progressive loss of precision and attributability.

Class names

The class names geo, latitude and longitude are used to generate the microformat and MUST NOT be changed.

External links

• Google Earth Geographic Web Layer FAQ – Information on how Google uses Wikipedia's coordinate information.