Editing Incubator escapee wiki:WikiProject Geographical coordinates (section)

==Goals==
# [[File:Undcstrmrc.png|30px]] Should provide a uniform markup for all geographic coordinates
# [[File:Undcstrmrc.png|30px]] Should provide a user-preferred appearance for all geographic coordinates
# [[File:Greentree.jpg|30px]] Markup should be easy and natural to use
# [[File:Check mark.svg|☑.svg]] [[File:Undcstrmrc.png|30px]] Should be able to have a uniform, extensible way of accessing all types of map resources, avoiding having direct external links to maps in articles
# [[File:Check mark.svg|☑.svg]] Clicking on a reference navigates directly to a page with external pointers to various resources, with coordinates automatically embedded where possible. The resources can be maps of various kinds, topological charts, satellite photos and others.
# [[File:Check mark.svg|☑.svg]] Create a database of points, enabling generation of navigatable maps with a clickable icon appearing for every location for which there is a Wikipedia article. This has been implemented for [[NASA World Wind]], [[Google Earth]] (see [[#View Wikipedia in Google Earth|below]]) and Google maps (see [[#Visualization of Wikipedia articles with Google Maps|below]]).
# [[File:Check mark.svg|☑.svg]] Serve as a tool for finding Wikipedia articles describing ''nearby'' locations. See also [[meta:Wikipediatlas]].
# [[File:Question dropshade.png|30px]] Adhere to existing [[Internet standards for geographic coordinates]] as far as possible{{Clarify}} such as using WGS84 for terrestrial coordinates