Template:Coord/doc

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Quick guide

Lookup coordinates from address

• https://www.gps-coordinates.net

Quick how to
To add 57°18′22″N 4°27′32″W to the top of an article, use {{Coord}} {{Coord}}, thus: {{Coord|57|18|22|N|4|27|32|W|display=title}} These coordinates are in degrees (angle), minutes of arc, and seconds of arc. "title" means that the coordinates will be displayed next to the article's title at the top of the page and before any other text or images.
To add 44.112°N 87.913°W / 44.112; -87.913 to the top of an article, use either {{Coord|44.112|N|87.913|W|display=title}} (which does not require minutes or seconds but does require the user to specify north/ south and east/west) or {{Coord|44.112|-87.913|display=title}} (in which the north and east are presumed by positive values while the south and west are negative ones) These coordinates are in decimal degrees.
Degrees, minutes and seconds, when used, must each be separated by a pipe ("|"). Map datum must be WGS84 Avoid excessive precision (0.0001° is <11 m, 1″ is <31 m). Maintain consistency of decimal places or minutes/ seconds between latitude and longitude. Latitude (N/S) must appear before longitude (E/W).
Optional coordinate parameters follow the longitude and are separated by an underscore ("_"): dim: dim:N (viewing diameter in metres) region: region:R (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 or ISO 3166-2 code) type: type:T (landmark or city(30,000), for example) Other optional parameters are separated by a pipe ("|"): display |display=inline (the default) to display in the body of the article only, |display=title to display at the top of the article only, or |display=inline,title to display in both places. name name=X to label the place on maps (default is PAGENAME) Thus: {{Coord|44.117|-87.913|dim:30_region:US-WI_type:event |display=inline,title|name=accident site}} Use |display=title (or |display=inline,title) once per article, for the subject of the article, where appropriate.
Order: the template is placed in articles after any navigation templates, but before all categories, including the Defaultsort template. For full details, refer to {{Coord/doc}} {{Coord/doc}}. Additional guidance is available: obtaining coordinates

Purpose

{{Coord}} provides a standard notation for encoding locations by their latitude and longitude coordinates. It is primarily for specifying the World Geodetic System WGS84 geographic coordinates of locations on Earth, at the same time emitting a machine-readable Geo (microformat). However, it can also encode locations on natural satellites, dwarf planets, and planets other than Earth.

Features

Latitude and longitude may be specified (with appropriate precision) either in decimal notation or as degrees/minutes/seconds. By default, coordinates appear in the format used to specify them. However, the format= parameter can be used to force display in a particular format. The template also accepts and displays coordinates formatted as degrees and decimal minutes as found on charts and maritime references.

The template displays the formatted coordinates with a hyperlink to GeoHack on tswiki. GeoHack displays information customized to the location, including links to external mapping services.

For terrestrial locations, a blue globe appears to the left of the hyperlink. Clicking on the globe activates the WikiMiniAtlas (requires JavaScript).

By default, coordinates appear "in line" with the adjacent text. However, the display= parameter can be used to move the coordinates up near the page title—or display them in both places at once.

The template outputs coordinates in three formats:

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

Logged-in users can customize how coordinates appear in their browsers.

You can extract information from the Coord template for use in mathematical expressions. For details, see Module:Coordinates.

Caveats

The template must not be modified without prior discussion.

Tools which read Wikipedia database dumps (such as Google Earth) often ignore inline coordinates. To ensure that coordinates are seen by these tools, one set should be displayed beside the title. However, if multiple title coordinates appear on a single page, they will overlap, making them illegible.

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}}

The hemisphere identifiers (N/S) and (E/W), if used, must be adjacent to the enclosing pipe "|" characters, and cannot be preceded or succeeded by spaces.

There are two kinds of parameters, all optional:

• Coordinate parameters are parameters that {{Coord}}

{{Coord}} passes to the map server. These have the format parameter:value and are separated from each other by the underscore character ( _ ). The supported coordinate parameters are dim:, globe:, region:, scale:, source:, and type:. See coordinate parameters for details and examples.

• Template parameters are parameters used by the {{Coord}}

{{Coord}} template. These have format parameter=value and are separated from each other by the pipe character ( | ). The supported template parameters are display=, format=, name=, and notes=.

• display= can be one of the following:

• display=inline – Display the coordinate inline (default)
• display=title – Display the coordinate at the top of the article, beside the article's title
  • shortcut: display=t
• display=inline,title – Display the coordinate both inline and beside the article's title
  • shortcut: display=it
• display=title,inline has the same effect as display=inline,title

Note: the title attribute indicates that the coordinates apply to the entire 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.

• format=dec reformats the coordinates to decimal degrees format.
• format=dms reformats the coordinates to degrees | minutes | seconds format.

• name= can be used to annotate inline coordinates for display in map services such as the WikiMiniAtlas. If omitted, the article's title (PAGENAME) is assumed.

Note: a name= parameter causes {{Coord}}

{{Coord}} to emit an hCard microformat using that name, even if used within an existing hCard. Do not use when the name is that of a person (e.g for a gravesite), as the generated hCard would be invalid. Also, do not use square brackets in names.

• notes= specifies text to be displayed immediately following the coordinates. This is primarily intended for adding footnotes to coordinates displayed beside the title.

Helper functions

Helper functions are available to manipulate tho output from {{Coord}}

{{Coord}} when it appears in a container template such as an infobox.

To extract the latitude from a Coord template

Use:

{{#invoke:coordinates|coord2text|{{Coord|57|18|22|N|4|27|32|E}}|lat}} → 57.30611

and similarly to extract the longitude, use:

{{#invoke:coordinates|coord2text|{{Coord|57|18|22|N|4|27|32|E}}|long}} → 4.45889

Note: this method removes the microformat markup, and should not be used inside templates which emit parent microformats, such as infoboxes or table-row templates.

Examples

{{coord|43.651234|-79.383333}}	43.651234°N 79.383333°W / 43.651234; -79.383333	Toronto – Fully decimal – western hemisphere implied by negation
{{coord|43.65|-79.38}}	43.65°N 79.38°W / 43.65; -79.38	Toronto – low precision decimal
{{coord|43.6500|-79.3800}}	43.6500°N 79.3800°W / 43.6500; -79.3800	Toronto – medium precision decimal with trailing zeroes
{{coord|43.653500|N|79.384000|W}}	43.653500°N 79.384000°W / 43.653500; -79.384000	Toronto – high precision decimal with explicit hemisphere notation
{{coord|43|29|N|79|23|W}}	43°29′N 79°23′W	Toronto – degrees & minutes
{{coord|43|29|13|N|79|23|02|W}}	43°29′4″N 79°23′0″W	Toronto – degrees, minutes & seconds
{{coord|43|29|12.6|N|79|23|02.4|W}}	43°29′12.6″N 79°23′02.4″W	Toronto – degrees, minutes, seconds & fractions of seconds
{{coord|55.752222|N|37.615556|E}}	55.752222°N 37.615556°E / 55.752222; 37.615556	Moscow – N & E
{{coord|55.752222|N|37.615556|E|format=dms}}	55°45′08″N 37°36′56″E	Convert to dms format
{{coord|39.098095|-94.587307|format=dms}}	39°05′53″N 94°35′14″W	Decimal conversion without N/S/E/W
{{coord|55.752222|N|37.615556|E|format=dec|name=Moscow}}	55.752222°N 37.615556°E / 55.752222; 37.615556 (Moscow)	Convert to decimal and label on some maps
{{coord|33|55|S|18|25|E}}	33°55′S 18°25′E	Cape Town – S & E
{{coord|35|00|N|105|00|E}}	35°00′N 105°00′E	People's Republic of China
{{coord|22|54|30|S|43|14|37|W}}	22°54′30″S 43°14′37″W	Rio – S & W
{{coord|22|S|43|W}}	22°S 43°W	A Degree Confluence Project.
{{coord|52|28|N|1|55|W|region:GB_type:city|notes=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fallingrain.com/world/UK/0/Birmingham.html|title=Birmingham}}</ref>|display=inline,title}}	52°28′N 1°55′W	Birmingham – with display, notes, and parameter settings; note that these coordinates are also displayed at the top of this page.
{{coord|51|25.813|N|0|43.945|E}}	51°25.813′N 0°43.945′E	Navigation buoy in the River Medway, England.
{{coord|51|36.287|N|8|32.018|W}}	51°36.287′N 8°32.018′W	Lighthouse at the Old Head of Kinsale as defined by the Commissioners of Irish Lights.

Coordinate parameters

The first unnamed parameter following the longitude is an optional string of coordinate parameters, separated by underscores. These parameters help GeoHack select suitable map resources.

Per-user display customization

To always display coordinates as DMS values, add this to your common.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 common.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 common.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. (You can either clear your cache or manually refresh this URL: [1].)

To disable display of the blue globe adjacent to coordinates, add this to your common.js:

var wma_settings = {enabled:false}

Note that this will disable meta:WikiMiniAtlas.

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

Incorrect uses and maintenance category

The template has some input checks built in. Most errors display a bold, red message inline and categorize the article in the hidden maintenance category Pages with malformed coordinate tags. There are currently 0 pages in that category. See the category description for further instructions.

Class names

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

Template Data

This template uses overloading which does not work well with the VisualEditor's TemplateData. Consider using "Edit source" instead of the visual editor until this defect is corrected.

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly error report for this template.

TemplateData for Coord

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. To use this template you will need to use positional parameter following one of these schemes: {{coord | D | M | S | NS | D | M | S | EW | geo | opts}}, {{coord | D | M | NS | D | M | EW | geo | opts}}, {{coord | D| NS | D| EW | geo | opts}} {{coord | sD | sD | geo | opts}} where D is degrees, M is minutes, S seconds, sD signed decimal degrees, NS is N or S, EW is E or W, opts are named parameter and geo are the coordinate parameters described on the main doc page.

Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
1	1	Either degrees latitude or a signed decimal degrees latitude	Number	required
2	2	Either: minutes latitude, signed decimal degrees longitude or 'N' or 'S'.	String	required
3	3	Either: second latitude, degrees longitude, 'N' or 'S' or GeoHack parameters	String	optional
4	4	Either: degrees longitude, 'N', 'S', 'E' or 'W' or GeoHack parameters	String	optional
5	5	Either: degrees longitude, minutes longitude or GeoHack parameters	String	optional
6	6	Either: minutes longitude, 'E' or 'W' or GeoHack parameters	String	optional
7	7	Either second longitude, or GeoHack parameters	String	optional
8	8	'E' or 'W'.	String	optional
9	9	GeoHack parameters. Example: dim:30_region:US-WI_type:event	String	optional
Display	display	Where it is displayed. Can be one of: 'inline' in the body of the article, 'title' at the top of the article or 'inline,title' both Default inline	String	optional
Name	name	a label to place on maps (default is PAGENAME)	String	optional
Notes	notes	text displayed immediately following the coordinates	String	optional
Format	format	How the coordinates are displayed, either 'dec' or 'dms'	String	optional