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[edit]- Category:Articles needing coordinates
- Category:Articles missing geocoordinate data by country
- Category:Articles missing geocoordinate data by subject
- Observatories
- Concentration camps needing coordinates
Use Maybe-Checker: verify and/or add coordinates to articles in categories likely to need coordinates.
Articles are also listed on WolterBot's cleanup listings (User:WolterBot/Cleanup statistics)
See also: Wikipedia:Obtaining geographic coordinates
Tag articles needing coordinates
[edit]{{coord missing|country name}}
is added to articles needing coordinates. This makes them available for the previous step.
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- Category:Pages with malformed coordinate tags
- Check coord templates among the 36 pages in Category:ParserFunction errors
- Replace links in articles to: ACME Mapper, Maplandia (spammy), MapQuest, Microsoft (Bing 1, Bing 2, Live 1, Live 2,
MSN,Encarta 1,Encarta 2, MSR,Terraserver,Terraserver-USA,Virtual Earth), TopoQuest,TopoZone, Wikimapia Yahoo! Maps, and Google Maps (Local, DE, FR, NL, UK)
More
[edit]- Provide advice on the use of {{Attached KML}} on the WP:GEO page. KML means Keyhole Markup Language, using XML
- Make better examples, also showing use of decimals and scale.
- Add an attribute for
other planets and the moon and probably alsostar maps. - Extend NASA World Wind support to include layers (by type) and labels.
- Rewrite the article Geographic coordinate system linked from many coordinates. Related articles: latitude, longitude.
- Convert existing data to templates
- Identify special formats not yet converted, e.g. E12 23 54 N23 34 52
- Clean up / reduce redundancy in U.S. city articles (rambot/smackbot generated), see past discussion
- Suggestions for extensions at mw:Summer of Code 2009#MediaWiki core and new extensions
- Discuss, summarise and specify a set of changes to geohack, such as type list revision, support for linear features, bug fixes, &c