Egil had carefully arranged that {{coor}} would be the only place where the URL of his Mapsources script would be held. Netoholic started to copy this URL into other templates to reduce the number of levels of nesting. Would a few people please visit Template talk:coor#Discussion and confirm that I was right to tell him to stop it. -- RHaworth 16:56, 2005 July 12 (UTC)
There is a version for the english and german Wikipedia available.
Over in Wikipedia:WikiProject Mountains, we are considering expanding our infobox to cover mountain ranges. The natural location data for ranges would be a bounding box of lat/long, rather than a single point (perhaps with a scale).
Is there any way to modify the coor template & web site to accept a bounding box? The bounding box can be converted back to a center location and scale. I would just hate to have Wikipedia editors do this conversion manually.
Discussion about this is starting at Wikipedia Talk:WikiProject Mountains#Include mountain ranges?
-- hike395 07:19, July 22, 2005 (UTC)
Which geographical coordinate can be chosen when there are different ones? For example, for Drygalski Island, there are several different geographical coordinates (see Talk:Drygalski Island and Talk:Geographic coordinates (obtaining)). Are there guidelines or hints which one to choose? Which geographical coordinate is the most correct one? -- Citylover 12:34, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
I noticed that Template:Airport infobox does not provide a link from the coordinates of the airport. This wikiproject says that infobox coordinates should be defined in terms of Template:coor and suggests Template:Infobox Dutch municipality 3 as an example. Unfortunately, that example does not use Template:coor any more. Is this a job for someone who understands the intricacies of Template:coor, and perhaps D6 bot if needed to format the calls to the airport infobox? I'm happy to help if required. -- Scott Davis Talk 08:37, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
Hallo,
I am a Japanese user. I'm very interested in this project.
We have 2 reference frames in Japan. One is international one, Japanese Geodetic Datum2000, almost equal to ITRF and WGS84. Onother one is Tokyo Datum (Tokyo 97), old one. The both differences of latitude and longitude are about 8-15 seconds. Because some map services for Japan including Google map use Tokyo Datum, I'd like to get Tokyo Datum from the project. Could you arrange the project?
The data to convert are:
-- ? 13:00, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Has anyone noticed the rather nice placement of coordinates on the German Wiki, using the template de:Vorlage:Geokoordinate, for example on de:Sony-Center. -- Solipsist 15:29, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The Germans have been changing theirs a bit, and have replaced "Geokoordinate" with "Koordinate Artikel" that uses: span id="coordinates" class="coordinates" style="white-space:nowrap;" William Allen Simpson 02:15, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
The Portuguese Wikipedia has implemented a wonderful solution I would like to see emulated here in the English Wikipedia, where coordinate info is placed at the top/right of articles. See for yourself here. It seems fairly easy to implement, but we probably need an admin or a developer to get it work. What does everyone think? Isn't it a great idea? — Cantus… ☎ 04:27, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
The Portugese uses: div id="coordinates" class="noprint" p class="coordinates" William Allen Simpson 02:15, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
At the Dutch WP, we have implemented the same options, although we allow them both, and have different templates. 2 templates are implemented in nl:Ei_van_Kortrijk :
-- LimoWreck 09:59, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
It does mean going through and fixing the text by hand (since it would not longer be embedded in the article). I'd prefer the top placement to be the method used here, too, but don't see the need for the second "display" copy of the coordinates.
Also, their standard solution was to put the template at the end footer of the article, rather than the top (although it displays at the top). For other templates here, there is a hint on standard placement. Placement of the template at the start of the article would be best.
Actually, they have variants that are text-inline as well, such as de:Template:Koordinate Text Artikel, so that placing coordinates in the text automagically puts them in the header as well.
As for implementation, it would be easy to add the code to the existing {{coor d}}, {{coor dm}}, and {{coor dms}} templates. A separate family (perhaps called {{ coord header d}} and so on?) could be made that don't have an inline portion and only put it in the header. I have a working example at {{ coorHeader}} that doesn't require any changes to the site-wide stylesheets. — Saxifrage ✎ 11:35, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
It turns out (unsuprisingly—I should have expected it) that the template as-is breaks when pages are viewed with skins other than Monobook, such as the significantly-popular Classic. [1] This means that moving to this style of coordinates template does require Developer support, in that we need to get the CSS out of the template and into Mediawiki:Monobook.css so that it plays nice with the other skins. Until such a thing happens, {{ CoorHeader}} should be considered an experimental template. — Saxifrage ✎ 03:44, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
This seems to have moved to implementation but I think I may have missed the discussion on whether it was a good idea. I would have voiced opposition at that time had I known. I think that for some articles, forcing the coords to display at the top of the article is not appropriate. Many articles I've had a hand in use {{Coor title d}} embedded inside {{ Geolinks-US-streetscale}}. There doesn't seem to be a clear process for not usiing that nesting where it's not appropriate and I don't want to fork either one. So how should I proceed? Just lump it and consider it a done deal? ++ Lar: t/ c 14:12, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
Egil had carefully arranged that {{coor}} would be the only place where the URL of his Mapsources script would be held. Netoholic started to copy this URL into other templates to reduce the number of levels of nesting. Would a few people please visit Template talk:coor#Discussion and confirm that I was right to tell him to stop it. -- RHaworth 16:56, 2005 July 12 (UTC)
There is a version for the english and german Wikipedia available.
Over in Wikipedia:WikiProject Mountains, we are considering expanding our infobox to cover mountain ranges. The natural location data for ranges would be a bounding box of lat/long, rather than a single point (perhaps with a scale).
Is there any way to modify the coor template & web site to accept a bounding box? The bounding box can be converted back to a center location and scale. I would just hate to have Wikipedia editors do this conversion manually.
Discussion about this is starting at Wikipedia Talk:WikiProject Mountains#Include mountain ranges?
-- hike395 07:19, July 22, 2005 (UTC)
Which geographical coordinate can be chosen when there are different ones? For example, for Drygalski Island, there are several different geographical coordinates (see Talk:Drygalski Island and Talk:Geographic coordinates (obtaining)). Are there guidelines or hints which one to choose? Which geographical coordinate is the most correct one? -- Citylover 12:34, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
I noticed that Template:Airport infobox does not provide a link from the coordinates of the airport. This wikiproject says that infobox coordinates should be defined in terms of Template:coor and suggests Template:Infobox Dutch municipality 3 as an example. Unfortunately, that example does not use Template:coor any more. Is this a job for someone who understands the intricacies of Template:coor, and perhaps D6 bot if needed to format the calls to the airport infobox? I'm happy to help if required. -- Scott Davis Talk 08:37, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
Hallo,
I am a Japanese user. I'm very interested in this project.
We have 2 reference frames in Japan. One is international one, Japanese Geodetic Datum2000, almost equal to ITRF and WGS84. Onother one is Tokyo Datum (Tokyo 97), old one. The both differences of latitude and longitude are about 8-15 seconds. Because some map services for Japan including Google map use Tokyo Datum, I'd like to get Tokyo Datum from the project. Could you arrange the project?
The data to convert are:
-- ? 13:00, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Has anyone noticed the rather nice placement of coordinates on the German Wiki, using the template de:Vorlage:Geokoordinate, for example on de:Sony-Center. -- Solipsist 15:29, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The Germans have been changing theirs a bit, and have replaced "Geokoordinate" with "Koordinate Artikel" that uses: span id="coordinates" class="coordinates" style="white-space:nowrap;" William Allen Simpson 02:15, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
The Portuguese Wikipedia has implemented a wonderful solution I would like to see emulated here in the English Wikipedia, where coordinate info is placed at the top/right of articles. See for yourself here. It seems fairly easy to implement, but we probably need an admin or a developer to get it work. What does everyone think? Isn't it a great idea? — Cantus… ☎ 04:27, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
The Portugese uses: div id="coordinates" class="noprint" p class="coordinates" William Allen Simpson 02:15, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
At the Dutch WP, we have implemented the same options, although we allow them both, and have different templates. 2 templates are implemented in nl:Ei_van_Kortrijk :
-- LimoWreck 09:59, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
It does mean going through and fixing the text by hand (since it would not longer be embedded in the article). I'd prefer the top placement to be the method used here, too, but don't see the need for the second "display" copy of the coordinates.
Also, their standard solution was to put the template at the end footer of the article, rather than the top (although it displays at the top). For other templates here, there is a hint on standard placement. Placement of the template at the start of the article would be best.
Actually, they have variants that are text-inline as well, such as de:Template:Koordinate Text Artikel, so that placing coordinates in the text automagically puts them in the header as well.
As for implementation, it would be easy to add the code to the existing {{coor d}}, {{coor dm}}, and {{coor dms}} templates. A separate family (perhaps called {{ coord header d}} and so on?) could be made that don't have an inline portion and only put it in the header. I have a working example at {{ coorHeader}} that doesn't require any changes to the site-wide stylesheets. — Saxifrage ✎ 11:35, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
It turns out (unsuprisingly—I should have expected it) that the template as-is breaks when pages are viewed with skins other than Monobook, such as the significantly-popular Classic. [1] This means that moving to this style of coordinates template does require Developer support, in that we need to get the CSS out of the template and into Mediawiki:Monobook.css so that it plays nice with the other skins. Until such a thing happens, {{ CoorHeader}} should be considered an experimental template. — Saxifrage ✎ 03:44, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
This seems to have moved to implementation but I think I may have missed the discussion on whether it was a good idea. I would have voiced opposition at that time had I known. I think that for some articles, forcing the coords to display at the top of the article is not appropriate. Many articles I've had a hand in use {{Coor title d}} embedded inside {{ Geolinks-US-streetscale}}. There doesn't seem to be a clear process for not usiing that nesting where it's not appropriate and I don't want to fork either one. So how should I proceed? Just lump it and consider it a done deal? ++ Lar: t/ c 14:12, 13 April 2006 (UTC)