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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.
This enables readers to click through to find maps of the surrounding area on external web sites like Google Maps. to be automatically plotted on maps. To learn how to add geographic coordinates to a page using templates, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates.
Articles (and coordinates) can be found through the pages using the templates in Category:Coordinates templates. All coordinates are available for download in Wikipedia database dumps. To get the coordinates from the XML format dump of all articles (enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2, 4 GB), the dump needs to be parsed for pages containing ...
The Military Grid Reference System ( MGRS) [ 1] is the geocoordinate standard used by NATO militaries for locating points on Earth. The MGRS is derived from the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid system and the Universal Polar Stereographic (UPS) grid system, but uses a different labeling convention. The MGRS is used as geocode for the ...
Center the screen on your location by double-clicking on it, then use the View in Google Maps button at the top (Google Earth 4.1 and newer). This will open Google Maps within Google Earth. You can see the center coordinates in decimal format in the address bar, but unfortunately you cannot copy them directly.
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.
I added a new subsection: Finding lat/long info in Google Earth.I had to move the two sentences which were at the bottom of the parent section, to the top of that section, and to the next section, respectively, so the new subsection would flow nicely.
The HTML markup produced by this template emits an Geo microformat, which makes the location's coordinates (latitude & longitude) parsable, so that they can be, say, looked up on a map. As yet, the standard for doing this for off-world bodies is still under development, but is supported in some microformat parsers (e.g. Swignition ). For more ...