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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. Additional features.
The steps for adding a geolink can be summarized as follows: Find the coordinates (generally latitude and longitude) of the geographic location you want to link. Select the template with the appropriate scale for the map to zoom into. Add the coordinates to the template using the template's format. Place the template reference into the article.
format=dms will reformat the coordinates to degrees | minutes | seconds (dms) format for all readers. Creating new templates. When creating new templates or infoboxes, use {}. Unless a template uses the coordinate data in another way, the {} template should be the field value.
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.
Click the email icon. The geographical coordinates are embedded in the email link which is then displayed. The coordinates are the two numbers displayed immediately after the letters "cp=". The latitude and longitude are separated by a tilde ( ~ ). The latitude is displayed first, and both coordinates are displayed in decimal degrees format.
The aim of WikiProject Maps is to improve the quality of maps across the Wikimedia Foundation. The Maps for Wikipedia page is an overview of different formats and tools for maps available on Wikipedia. The Map conventions page provides advice for creating and improving maps. The Map workshop page can be used to add your map requests and your ...
To use this userbox template, place the following line of Wikitext on your user page: {{User coord|c1|...|c8|format=|verb=|display=|float=|nocat=}} where: c1...c8 are the two, four, six, or eight geographic coordinate parameters used by Template:Coord. format= is the optional coordinates format: format=dec convert coordinates to decimal degrees ...
This template takes geographic coordinate data in the form provided by Wikidata (dms), formats the data into the form required by Template:Coord, and then calls Template:Coord to create links to GeoHack. The basic form is: