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Find coordinates for

• Category:Articles needing coordinates
• Category:Articles missing geocoordinate data by country (stats 1 & stats 2}
• Category:Articles missing geocoordinate data by subject

Use Maybe-Checker: verify and/or add coordinates to articles in categories likely to need coordinates.

Artilces are also listed on WolterBot's cleanup listings (User:WolterBot/Cleanup statistics)

See also: Misplaced Pages:Obtaining geographic coordinates

Tag articles needing coordinates

{{coord missing|country name}} is added to articles needing coordinates. This makes them available for the previous step.

Fix

Fix coordinates possibly pointing to the wrong location:

• 0 pages in Category:Talk pages requiring geodata verification (notes on talk page reporting inaccurate coordinates).
• 0 pages requiring geodata verification

Fix coordinates with formatting errors:

• 0 pages in Category:Coord template needing repair
• coord-enwiki.log (updated daily)
• Check for errors with WP:GEO#Coordinates search tool
• Check coord templates among the 37 pages in Category:ParserFunction errors
• Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Coord/input/ERROR
• Coordinates out of range: lat >90°, <-90° ; long >180°, < -180° (Note: coordinates for other planets may be outside that range).
• Coordinates around 0°,0° in article namespace
• tools:~sk/geo/enwiki_error_geo_list.htm (updated daily - quite a few false positives, see discussion)
• Irreguarly updated lists:
  • Possible manually-generated geodata errors
  • WP:GEO/coordinates to fix

More

• Make better examples, also showing use of decimals and scale.
• Create an export to OpenStreetmap of all points in the database.

--Mdupont (talk) 11:46, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

• Add an attribute for other planets and the moon and probably also star 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
  • Stray instances of: Coor title d, Coor title dm, Coor title dms, etc. (Careful! Bots generally skip broken coordinates).
  • 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 WT:GEO#Coordinates in US cities articles: where to display
• 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

• WikiProject Geographical coordinates