Wiki143 talk: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)

See also: Wikipedia:Obtaining geographic coordinates

Tag articles needing coordinates

Template:Tlx is added to articles needing coordinates. This makes them available for the previous step.

Fix

As of December 20, 2025 13:24 (UTC)
User reported errors:

Category Articles requiring geodata verification not found 0 pages

Category Pages requiring geodata verification not found 0 pages

Category Talk pages requiring geodata verification not found 0 pages

Formatting errors:

Category Coordinates templates needing maintenance not found 0 pages

Category Coord template needing repair not found 0 pages

• Category:Pages with malformed coordinate tags
• Check coord templates among the 0 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 Template:Tl 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 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
  • 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