Wikipedia 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: Obtaining geographic coordinates

Tag articles needing coordinates
is added to articles needing coordinates. This makes them available for the previous step.

Fix
As of July 29, 2024 (UTC)

User reported errors:

Formatting errors:


 * 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  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 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 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 Summer of Code 2009
 * Discuss, summarise and specify a set of changes to geohack, such as type list revision, support for linear features, bug fixes, &c