Editing Incubator escapee wiki:WikiProject Geographical coordinates (section)

===Coordinate templates===
There are two ways of specifying coordinates:

# {{tlx|coord}} – Accepts multiple data formats and supports a style sheet preference for display format, plus a [[Geo (microformat)|Geo microformat]]. <code>Coord</code> may be placed anywhere in the article source text, inline, with prose text. For example "<code>Mount Everest is at <nowiki>{{coord|27|59|16|N|86|56|40|E}}</nowiki></code>", which displays as "Mount Everest is at {{coord|27|59|16|N|86|56|40|E}}". To display coordinates at the page's top, near the article's title, in a skin-dependent way, use <code>display=title</code> (see example at [[Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric dam]]). To display both inline and top, use <code>display=inline,title</code>.
# Infoboxes – Many [[:Category:Infobox templates|infobox templates]] for places have a parameter, typically {{para|coordinates}}, for specifying a place's coordinates. The template internally uses {{tl|coord}} and may therefore also display in the title area. See [[Template:Infobox Settlement]] and [[Template:Infobox Mountain]] for documentation, or, usage examples at [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] and [[Mount Everest]].

(Before September 2008, there was a widely-used family of templates of the form ''coor ...''. These are deprecated and have been replaced by {{tl|coord}}. For an overview of choices: [[/comparison|WikiProject Geographical coordinates/comparison]].)

====Parameters====
Following the geographical coordinate, further parameters can optionally be supplied, separated by underscores. This helps display suitable map resources (see [[Template:GeoTemplate]]), and will help [[m:Category:Wikimaps|Wikimaps]] become fully functional.

[[User:EncMstr/Coord|For example:]]
:{{tlx|coord|61.1631|-149.9721|type:landmark_globe:earth_region:US-AK_scale:150000_source:gnis|5=name=Kulis Air National Guard Base}} displays {{coord|61.1631|-149.9721|type:landmark_region:US-AK_scale:150000_source:gnis|name=Kulis Air National Guard Base}}
It has
* type:landmark
* globe:earth
* region:US-AK
* scale:150000
* source:gnis

===== type:''T'' =====
{{shortcut|WP:COORD TYPE}}
{{/type:}}

===== dim:''D'' =====
{{/dim:}}

===== scale:''N'' =====
{{shortcut|WP:COORD SCALE}}
{{/scale:}}

===== region:''R'' =====
{{shortcut|WP:COORD REGION}}
{{/region:}}

===== globe:''G'' =====
{{/globe:}}

===== source:''S'' =====
{{shortcut|WP:COORD SOURCE}}
{{/source:}}

==== Name ====
{{tl|coord}} takes <code>|name=''name''</code>

If an article contains several ''display=inline'' coordinates, each of these may be supplied with a unique ''name''. This name will be used to display the coordinate on the [[:meta:WikiMiniAtlas|WikiMiniAtlas]], and will cause the template 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.

==== <span id="Display">Display preferences</span> ====
{{UF-coord-classes}}

==== Format ====
* <code>format=dec</code> will reformat the coordinates to <span style="text-decoration:underline;">decimal degrees</span> for all readers.
* <code>format=dms</code> will reformat the coordinates to <span style="text-decoration:underline;">degrees | minutes | seconds (dms)</span> format for all readers.

====Creating new templates====
When creating new templates or infoboxes, use {{tl|coord}}. Unless a template uses the coordinate data in another way, the {{tl|coord}} template should be the field value. For example, {{tl|infobox lake}} accepts <code><nowiki>coords = {{coord|45|N|6|E|type:waterbody}}</nowiki></code>.

If coordinate data are used directly by a template, use the following parameter names for coordinates:

{|
|-
|
* lat_d
* lat_m
* lat_s
* lat_NS
||
* long_d
* long_m
* long_s
* long_EW

|}

A provision for accepting decimal coordinates is recommended. For example, allow <code>lat_d = 45.678 | long_d = -123.456</code> and omission of the remaining parameters.

Where the [[United Kingdom]]'s [[Ordnance Survey]] grid references are used as the coordinates, use {{tlx|oscoor}}.

For articles which have no coordinates, but need them, use {{tlx|coord missing}}.