Wikipedia talk:Coordinate-referenced map templates

message: I created this article and I think it needs a lot of copyediting. Sorry, I am not a technical writer or wiki code genius. MPS 08:28, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's a great start, and useful as is, thanks for doing it!. Some things I'd like to see would be how to convert between Degrees Minutes Seconds to decimal (or if a handy dandy converter existed, even better), and how to convert from USGS map section references to  lat/long. I added a how to use Google similar to yours. If I have some time I'll see what I can do but I tend to drone on interminably... ++Lar: t/c 14:14, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: 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. I don't think I damaged the original author's intent. I verified the procedure for finding coordinates in Google Earth as I edited it. Feel free to hack away on it. Teratornis 18:18, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Finding lat/long info in Google Earth 

message: I understand this document is intended to be a policy, guideline, or process. I'm interested in maps, surveying, and coordinates, so I decided to take a look. Unfortunately, the page does not set the context so I can understand where this page fits in.
For example, who is the intended reader of this page? People who develop templates? People who use coordinate-referenced templates?
*Possible clues:
**See an introductory paragraph which links to this page: Template_talk:Geolinks-US-streetscale#Simple_How_to_for_noobs_and_non-programmers.
**I am not sure who the intended readers are, but I can self-report as an opportunistic reader. I wanted to learn more about how to insert coordinate-referenced templates into Wikipedia articles. See my Special:Contributions/Teratornis page for examples of articles I added coordinate-referenced templates to. (Warning: I'm far from an expert on this; I just copied and edited template references I found in similar pages.) Teratornis 15:24, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I interleaved my responses to Gerry Ashton's questions. If that is not the proper way to format the answers to a list of questions on a talk page, feel free to rearrange my replies. Teratornis 15:24, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Context

message: You could say that this is a draft guideline. I created this page in order to compile a useful reference of geloinks template information that is nowhere else on wikipedia. The intended audience is someone that wants to add a "see this location on the map" template to the article. An example is the Richmond, Virginia article. I added a geolinks template that looks like this 
{geolinks-US-countyscale|37.538346|-77.461507}} 
 
( click on any of the maps options to see a metro Richmond map )
... so a user who wants to use one of these geolinks templates on other articles has to go somewhere in wikipedia's guidelines to learn how to use them. Does this answer the question? I am not one to recklessly write policies, so I am not sure of the approval process for turning this into a guideline. I do think it is helpful if not perfectly written. MPS 03:33, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Response by original author

message: The Geolinks templates may be superseded by recent changes in the coord template which provide a list of mapping services when the geographical coordinate is clicked on.  Please participate in the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates#Geolinks-coord_Issues.  (SEWilco 16:14, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geolinks modification or coord replacement