User:MarkS/Template:Place

Summary

A template to place details of a place on to the wiki page. The template places a text description in the page itself and a box on the right with links to further details on the place.

Parameters

The following parameters can be passed into the template:

Parameter name	Required	Purpose
name	Yes	The name of the place being referred to (eg. Nottingham).
type	Yes	The type of place. Recognised values are: village, city, town, district, province.
area	Yes	The area the place is in (eg. China)
subarea	No	A subarea of the area (for example a province of china). It is possible to not define the subarea and just use area instead.
lat	Yes	The latitude of the place.
long	Yes	The longitude of the place.
zoom	No	The zoom level to open linked to maps at. Default value is 12.
image	No	The title of the image to display. No image will be display if image is not defined
sortkey	No	The sortkey for categories. If sortkey isn't supplied the name of the place will be used as the sortkey.
list	No	URL of a mailing list for the place. If this is not supplied no archive link will appear.
archive	No	URL of an archive page for the place. If this is not supplied no archive link will appear.
forum	No	URL of a forum page for the place. If this is not supplied no forum link will appear.
wikipedia	No	The article name on wikipedia. Default value is name

Categories

If there is a category for the name of the place (eg. New York) then then this category is added to the page.

The template will allow the place to a category types in subarea (eg. Cities in Berkshire).

If the subarea is not defined then the template will also add the place to the category types in area (eg. Cities in UK). This increases the change the place will be allocated to a category that exists, but ensures that it if a more specfic category exists it isn't allocated to the parent category.

Examples

{{place|name=Reading|type=town|area=Berkshire|image=Image:UK_Reading_status.png|lat=51.445|long=-0.9685 |zoom=11}}

Result:

• Page is allocated to the Reading category if it exists
• Page is allocated to the Towns in Berkshire category.
• No link to mailing list, forum or archive is added.
• The image UK_Reading_status.png is added to the information box.

{{place|name=Los Angeles|type=city|subarea=California|area=United States|image=|lat=43|long=-75.5|zoom=7}}

• Page is allocated to the Lost Angeles category if it exists
• Page is allocated to the Cities in California category.
• Page is allocated to the Cities in United States category if the more specific category Cities in California does not exist
• No link to mailing list, forum or archive is added.
• No image of the place is added to the information box.

The template itself

{{{name}}}, {{{area}}}

Latitude : {{{lat}}}, Longitude : {{{long}}}

Browse {{{name}}} map

Edit map

[[:Category:Users in {{{name}}}|Users in {{{name}}}]] GPS traces Wallpaper image: jpeg, png Maplint informationfreeway Nearby parking, pub Check Map Features via Query-to-map Check streets with no-names

External links: OSM Inspector Osmaware: last day, hour, min OpenStreetBrowser OpenStreetBugs Keep Right! (Europe only) Coastline checker [[Wikipedia:{{{name}}}|Wikipedia article]] Google (& Image search) Webshots Geograph

Use this template for your city

{{{name}}} is a {{{type}}} in [[{{{area}}}]] at latitude {{{lat}}}, longitude {{{long}}}.