WT:WikiProject Geographical coordinates/to do
=Find coordinates for =
- :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)
=Tag articles needing coordinates=
{{tlx|coord missing|country name}} is added to articles needing coordinates. This makes them available for the previous step.
=Fix =
As of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}}, {{CURRENTYEAR}} {{CURRENTTIME}} (UTC) {{Purge|Refresh}}
User reported errors:
:{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Articles requiring geodata verification|pages}} pages | :{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Pages requiring geodata verification|pages}} pages | :{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Talk pages requiring geodata verification|pages}} pages |
Formatting errors:
:{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Coordinates templates needing maintenance|pages}} pages | :{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Coord template needing repair|pages}} pages |
- :Category:Pages with malformed coordinate tags
- [//toolserver.org/~magnus/catscan_rewrite.php?categories=ParserFunction_errors&templates_yes=Coord&doit=1#results Check coord templates] among the {{PAGESINCATEGORY:ParserFunction errors}} 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=
- Provide advice on the use of {{tl|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