Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geographical coordinates/Archive 11

message: Please help with the discussion at Wikipedia:Peer review/Ridge Route/archive1; thank you. --NE2 01:04, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: How should coordinates be formatted?

message: With some wonderful code, wikipedia now churns out clickable location maps of 
countries which add a new degree of interactability to the wiki ex: Indian_Institutes_of_Management . But the process of 
marking each point using coordinates is tiring and cumbersome especially if 
something like a clickable road map is to be made.
It would be very useful if one could reference the coordinates from an article, 
like geo:London would return the geographical coordinates of London and mark it 
on the map. This can really unleash the power of location maps. Also posted on bugzilla here-- PlaneMad|YakYak 16:40, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference geo coordinates from an article 

message: I've created :Template:LocateMe. Should it go on their talk pages (as in the few examples currently tagged) or on the articles themselves (like other clean-up tags, such as clean-up itself, or "uncited" and so on? For now, please start using it (and advocating its use) if appropriate - just type  (or whatever month we're in after this one)) on talk pages. Andy Mabbett 23:33, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template to request coords 

message: As a newcomer to this project, might I suggest that the following questions go on the project page (or in a FAQ linked from it), with better answers than these "starters":
*Q: How precise should the coordinates be?
**A: Only as precise as needed for the size of place or structure; for a city, for instance, two or three decimal places or the nearest whole minutes  - no need for seconds.
*Q: The place is very big - what coordinates should I give?
**A: For a building, the main entrance; for a city, the nominated centre point (e.g from which road distances are measured), if there is one, or the location of the main administration building (Town or City Hall, etc.); for a park or open space, the approximate centre.
Though the points are currently covered, they're not immediately apparent; and a "FAQ" format is more easily absorbed by first-time visitors.
:Comments? Additions? Brickbats? Andy Mabbett 23:45, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  FAQs? 

message: If we were to implement coordinates into the roads articles, how would we do it? --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 01:15, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: See Ridge Route. Andy Mabbett 14:24, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:USRD|U.S. Roads]]

message: Did anything ever come of the May 2005 suggestion to add Coordinate Display Format into User Preferences? I'd be strongly in favour. Andy Mabbett 12:47, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion: Add Coordinate Display Format into User Preferences 

message: Quarl is done updating  and adding additional backwards compatibility. Please see his summary at Template_talk:Coord#Updates and comment there. We'll now need to look at how this works for wikicode parsers. I think he's done a great job. Andy Mabbett 11:49, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: May I take the chance to ask for another little feature: a title arguments. With lots of inline coordinates (i.e. Ridge Route) external usability of the data would be greatly enhanced. My ideal solution, forget about the display= argument, request a title= for every inline coordinate and put the one coordinate without it in the title. --Dschwen 21:45, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please ask on Template_talk:Coord#Updates. Andy Mabbett 21:50, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: <span style="color:red;font-weight:bold;">Update</span>