Editing Incubator escapee wiki:WikiProject Geographical coordinates (section)

====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}}.