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Quick guide

Quick how to
To add 57°18′22″N 4°27′32″W to the top of an article, use Template:Tl, thus: {{Coord|57|18|22|N|4|27|32|W|display=title}} These coordinates are in degrees, minutes, and seconds of arc. 'title' means that the coordinates will be displayed next to the title.
To add 44.112°N 87.913°W / 44.112; -87.913 to the top of an article, use either {{Coord|44.112|N|87.913|W|display=title}} or {{Coord|44.112|-87.913|display=title}} These coordinates are in decimal degrees.
Degrees, minutes and seconds must be separated by a pipe ("|"). Map datum must be WGS84 (except for off-earth bodies). Avoid excessive precision (0.0001° is <11 m, 1″ is <31 m). Latitude (N/S) must appear before longitude (E/W).
Optional coordinate parameters follow the longitude and are separated by an underscore ("_"): dim: dim:N (viewing diameter in metres) region: region:R (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 or ISO 3166-2 code) type: type:T (landmark or city(30,000), for example) Other optional parameters are separated by a pipe ("|"): display Template:Para (the default) to display in the body of the article only, Template:Para to display at the top of the article only, or Template:Para to display in both places. name name=X to label the place on maps (default is PAGENAME) Thus: {{Coord|44.117|-87.913|dim:30_region:US-WI_type:event |display=inline,title|name=accident site}} Use Template:Para (or Template:Para) once per article, for the subject of the article, where appropriate.
Per WP:ORDER, the template is placed in articles after any navigation templates, but before any Persondata or Defaultsort templates, or Categories. For full details, refer to Template:Tl. Additional guidance is available: obtaining coordinates, converting coordinates

Purpose

{{Coord}} provides a standard notation for encoding locations by their latitude and longitude coordinates. It is primarily for specifying the WGS84 geographic coordinates of locations on Earth, at the same time emitting a machine-readable Geo microformat. However, it can also encode locations on natural satellites, dwarf planets, and planets other than Earth.

• To specify celestial coordinates, use Template:Tl instead.
• Tag articles which lack coordinates (but need them) with Template:Tl.
• If the subject's location is truly unknown or disputed, note this with Template:Tl.

See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates.

Features

Latitude and longitude may be specified (with appropriate precision) either in decimal notation or as degrees/minutes/seconds. 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 displays the formatted coordinates with a hyperlink to GeoHack. GeoHack displays information customized to the location, including links to external mapping services.

For terrestrial locations, a blue globe () appears to the left of the hyperlink. Clicking on the globe activates the WikiMiniAtlas (requires JavaScript).

By default, coordinates appear "in line" with the adjacent text. However, the display= parameter can be used to move the coordinates up near the page title—or display them in both places at once.

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.

Logged-in users can customize how coordinates appear in their browsers.

Caveats

The template must not be modified without prior discussion.

Tools which read Wikipedia database dumps (such as Google Earth) often ignore inline coordinates. To ensure that coordinates are seen by these tools, one set should be displayed beside the title. See How do I get my Wikipedia article to show up in the Google Earth Geographic Web layer?. However, if multiple title coordinates appear on a single page, they will overlap, making them illegible.

Superseded templates

This single template supersedes Template:Tl, (and others in that family which have since been redirected to it), plus the Geolinks and Mapit templates. Most parameters can be used as before – see Usage.

Examples:

{{coord|10.2|N|-20.3|E|type:city}}	Replaces {{coor d|10.2|N|-20.3|E|city}}
{{coord|44.4|-111.1|type:city_region:US|display=inline,title}}	Replaces {{Geolinks-US-cityscale|44.4|-111.1}}
{{coord|51.01234|-1.56789|type:landmark_region:GB|display=inline,title}}	Replaces {{Geolinks-UK-buildingscale|51.01234|-1.56789}}
{{coord|-35.5|150.1|type:landmark_region:AU|display=inline,title}}	Replaces {{Mapit-AUS-suburbscale|lat=-35.5|long=150.1}}
{{coord|12|34|12|N|45|33|45|W|display=title}}	Replaces {{CoorHeader|12|34|12|N|45|33|45|W}}

Usage

{{coord|latitude|longitude|coordinate parameters|template parameters}}
{{coord|dd|N/S|dd|E/W|coordinate parameters|template parameters}}
{{coord|dd|mm|N/S|dd|mm|E/W|coordinate parameters|template parameters}}
{{coord|dd|mm|ss|N/S|dd|mm|ss|E/W|coordinate parameters|template parameters}}

The hemisphere identifiers (N/S) and (E/W), if used, must be adjacent to the enclosing pipe "|" characters, and cannot be preceded or succeeded by spaces.

There are two kinds of parameters, all optional:

• Coordinate parameters are parameters that Template:Tl passes to the map server. These have the format parameter:value and are separated from each other by the underscore character ( _ ). The supported coordinate parameters are dim:, globe:, region:, scale:, source:, and type:. See coordinate parameters for details and examples.

• Template parameters are parameters used by the Template:Tl template. These have format parameter=value and are separated from each other by the pipe character ( | ). The supported template parameters are display=, format=, name=, and notes=.

• display= can be one of the following:

• display=inline – Display the coordinate inline (default)
• display=title – Display the coordinate at the top of the article, beside the article's title (replaces Template:Tl family)
  • shortcut: display=t
• display=inline,title – Display the coordinate both inline and beside the article's title (replaces Template:Tl family)
  • shortcut: display=it
• display=title,inline has the same effect as display=inline,title

Note: the title attribute indicates that the coordinates apply to the entire article, and not just one of (perhaps many) places mentioned in it — so it should only be omitted in the latter case.

• format= can be used to force dec or dms coordinate display.

• format=dec reformats the coordinates to decimal degrees format.
• format=dms reformats the coordinates to degrees | minutes | seconds format.

• name= can be used to annotate inline coordinates for display in map services such as the WikiMiniAtlas. If omitted, the article's title (PAGENAME) is assumed.

Note: a name= parameter causes Template:Tl 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.

• notes= specifies text to be displayed immediately following the coordinates. This is primarily intended for adding footnotes to coordinates displayed beside the title.

Displaying all coordinate links on one map

The template Template:Tl can be used in an article with coordinates. This template creates links to mapping services which display all the coordinates on a single map, and links to other services which allow the coordinates to be used or downloaded in a variety of formats.

Examples

{{coord|43.651234|-79.383333}}	43.651234°N 79.383333°W / 43.651234; -79.383333	Toronto – Fully decimal – western hemisphere implied by negation
{{coord|43.65|-79.38}}	43.65°N 79.38°W / 43.65; -79.38	Toronto – low precision decimal
{{coord|43.6500|-79.3800}}	43.6500°N 79.3800°W / 43.6500; -79.3800	Toronto – medium precision decimal with trailing zeroes
{{coord|43.651234|N|79.383333|W}}	43.651234°N 79.383333°W / 43.651234; -79.383333	Toronto – high precision decimal with explicit hemisphere notation
{{coord|43|29|N|79|23|W}}	43°29′N 79°23′W	Toronto – degrees & minutes
{{coord|43|29|4|N|79|23|0|W}}	43°29′4″N 79°23′0″W	Toronto – degrees, minutes & seconds
{{coord|43|29|4.5|N|79|23|0.5|W}}	43°29′4.5″N 79°23′0.5″W	Toronto – degrees, minutes, seconds & fractions of seconds
{{coord|55.752222|N|37.615556|E}}	55.752222°N 37.615556°E / 55.752222; 37.615556	Moscow – N & E
{{coord|55.752222|N|37.615556|E|format=dms}}	55°45′08″N 37°36′56″E	Convert to dms format
{{coord|39.098095|-94.587307|format=dms}}	39°05′53″N 94°35′14″W	Decimal conversion without N/S/E/W
{{coord|55.752222|N|37.615556|E|format=dec|name=Moscow}}	55.752222°N 37.615556°E / 55.752222; 37.615556 (Moscow)	Convert to decimal and label on some maps
{{coord|33|55|S|18|25|E}}	33°55′S 18°25′E	Cape Town – S & E
{{coord|35|00|N|105|00|E}}	35°00′N 105°00′E	People's Republic of China
{{coord|22|54|30|S|43|14|37|W}}	22°54′30″S 43°14′37″W	Rio – S & W
{{coord|22|S|43|W}}	22°S 43°W	A degree confluence.
{{coord|52|28|N|1|55|W|region:GB_type:city|notes=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fallingrain.com/world/UK/0/Birmingham.html|title=Birmingham}}</ref>|display=inline,title}}	52°28′N 1°55′W	Birmingham – with display, notes, and parameter settings; note that these coordinates are also displayed at the top of this page.

References

Template:Reflist

Coordinate parameters

The first unnamed parameter following the longitude is an optional string of coordinate parameters, separated by underscores. These parameters help GeoHack select suitable map resources, and they will become more important when Wikimaps becomes fully functional.

type:T

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates/type:}}

scale:N

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates/scale:}}

dim:D

The dim: parameter defines the diameter of a viewing circle centered on the coordinate. While the default unit of measurement is metres, the km suffix may be appended to indicate kilometres.

GeoHack uses dim: to select a map scale such that the viewing circle appears roughly 10 centimetres (4 in) in diameter on a 72 dpi computer monitor. If no dim:, type:, or scale: parameters are provided, GeoHack uses its default viewing circle of 30 kilometres (19 mi).

Samples

Subject	View diameter	Markup	Result
Western Hemisphere	10,000 kilometres (6,200 mi)	{{coord|0|N|90|W|dim:10000km}}	0°N 90°W
Ohio	400 kilometres (250 mi)	{{coord|40.5|-82.5|dim:400km}}	40.5°N 82.5°W / 40.5; -82.5
Dresden	20,000 metres (12 mi)	{{coord|51.033|13.73|dim:20000}}	51.033°N 13.73°E / 51.033; 13.73
Statue of Liberty	100 metres (330 ft)	{{coord|40.6892|-74.0445|dim:100}}	40.6892°N 74.0445°W / 40.6892; -74.0445

region:R

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates/region:}}

globe:G

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates/globe:}}

source:S

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates/source:}}

Per-user display customization

To always display coordinates as DMS values, add this to your common.css:

.geo-default { display: inline }
.geo-nondefault { display: inline }
.geo-dec { display: none }
.geo-dms { display: inline }

To always display coordinates as decimal values, add this to your common.css:

.geo-default { display: inline }
.geo-nondefault { display: inline }
.geo-dec { display: inline }
.geo-dms { display: none }

To display coordinates in both formats, add this to your common.css:

.geo-default { display: inline }
.geo-nondefault { display: inline }
.geo-dec { display: inline }
.geo-dms { display: inline }
.geo-multi-punct { display: inline }

If CSS is disabled, or you have an old copy of MediaWiki:Common.css cached, you will see both formats. (You can either clear your cache or manually refresh this URL: [1].)

To disable display of the blue globe adjacent to coordinates, add this to your common.js:

var wma_settings = {enabled:false}

Note that this will disable WikiMiniAtlas.

See also Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Geographical coordinates.

Incorrect uses and maintenance category

The template has some input checks built in. Most errors display a bold, red message inline and categorize the article in the hidden maintenance category Pages with malformed coordinate tags. There are currently 0 pages in that category. See the category description for further instructions.

A more thorough daily report of coordinates needing repair is at tools:~dispenser/view/File viewer#log:coord-enwiki.log.

See also: WT:GEO#To do

Internals

See Template:Coord/doc/internals and Category:Coord template.

Subtemplates

The following templates are "subroutines" of Template:Tl. Separating them out drastically reduces the pre-expand size of Template:Tl. They shouldn't be invoked directly.

name	function
Template:Tl	displays coordinates inline
Template:Tl	displays coordinates inline and above the article
Template:Tl	displays coordinates above the article (generally to the right of the article's title)
Template:Tl	generates microformats and link to GeoHack
Template:Tl	reads coordinates in decimal degrees {{Coord|12|-12}}
Template:Tl	reads coordinates in decimal degrees with directional letters {{Coord|12|N|12|W}}
Template:Tl	reads coordinates in degrees/minutes format {{Coord|12|12|N|12|12|W}}
Template:Tl	reads coordinates in degrees/minutes/seconds format {{Coord|12|12|12|N|12|12|12|W}}
Template:Tl	generates error message if the inputs do not match any of the above formats
Template:Tl	generates error message for range checks and such
Template:Tl	generates error message for missing latitude
Template:Tl	pads a positive number with trailing zeroes until it matches the precision of a negative number
Template:Tl	selects a format for converting decimal degrees, based on the precision of the inputs

Coordinates in PDF

For generating PDF, printed books, and Open Office export format, two templates are substituted for the regular templates:

• Template:Coord/display/title/Print for Template:Tl
• Template:Coord/link/Print for Template:Tl
• Template:Coord/display/inline,title/Print for Template:Tl

Samples are available at:

• Help:Books/Feedback/Tests/coord 1
• Help:Books/Feedback/Tests/coord 2

Class names

The class names geo, latitude and longitude are used to generate the microformat and MUST NOT be changed.

Template Data

This template uses overloading which does not work well with the VisualEditor/TemplateData. Consider using "Edit source" instead of the visual editor until this defect is corrected. To facilitate visual editing in the mean time, consider using Template:Tl for signed decimal degrees, Template:Tl when degrees minutes and seconds are specified, and Template:Tl when just degrees and minutes are given.

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.

TemplateData for Coord

Encodes the latitude and longitude coordinates of a location, provides a link to map of the location. This template does not work well with the Visual Editor, consider using {{coordDec}} for signed decimal degrees, {{coordDMS}} when degrees minutes and seconds are specified {{coordDM}} when only degrees and minutes are specified. To use this template you will need to use positional parameter following one of these schemes: {{coord | D | M | S | NS | D | M | S | EW | geo | opts}}, {{coord | D | M | NS | D | M | EW | geo | opts}}, {{coord | D| NS | D| EW | geo | opts}} {{coord | sD | sD | geo | opts}} where D is degrees, M is minutes, S seconds, sD signed decimal degrees, NS is N or S, EW is E or W, opts are named parameter and geo are the coordinate parameters described on the main doc page.

Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
1	1	Either degrees latitude or a signed decimal degrees latitude Default empty Example empty Auto value empty	Number	required
2	2	Either: minutes latitude, signed decimal degrees longitude or 'N' or 'S'. Default empty Example empty Auto value empty	String	required
3	3	Either: second latitude, degrees longitude, 'N' or 'S' or GeoHack parameters Default empty Example empty Auto value empty	String	optional
4	4	Either: degrees longitude, 'N', 'S', 'E' or 'W' or GeoHack parameters Default empty Example empty Auto value empty	String	optional
5	5	Either: degrees longitude, minutes longitude or GeoHack parameters Default empty Example empty Auto value empty	String	optional
6	6	Either: minutes longitude, 'E' or 'W' or GeoHack parameters Default empty Example empty Auto value empty	String	optional
7	7	Either second longitude, or GeoHack parameters Default empty Example empty Auto value empty	String	optional
8	8	'E' or 'W'. Default empty Example empty Auto value empty	String	optional
9	9	GeoHack parameters. Example: dim:30_region:US-WI_type:event Default empty Example empty Auto value empty	String	optional
Display	display	Where it is displayed. Can be one of: 'inline' in the body of the article, 'title' at the top of the article or 'inline,title' both Default inline Example empty Auto value empty	String	optional
Name	name	a label to place on maps (default is PAGENAME) Default empty Example empty Auto value empty	String	optional
Notes	notes	text displayed immediately following the coordinates Default empty Example empty Auto value empty	String	optional
Format	format	How the coordinates are displayed, either 'dec' or 'dms' Default empty Example empty Auto value empty	String	optional