Template:Place
V・T・E {{{name}}}, {{{area}}}  |
| latitude: {{{lat}}}, longitude: {{{lon}}} |
| Browse map of {{{name}}} {{{lat}}}, {{{lon}}} |
| Edit map |
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External links:
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| Use this template for your locality |
{{{name}}} is a {{{type}}} in [[{{{area}}}|{{{area}}}]] at latitude {{{lat}}}, longitude {{{lon}}}.
Summary
Template:Place is a template to place details of a place on to the wiki page with the language set by the parameter "lang" or in the language of the current page returned by {{Langcode}} (this language code is determined by the namespace for DE,ES,FR,IT,JA,NL,RU or by the pagename prefix otherwise). Autotranslation is supported (see {{PlaceLang}}) but there are still specialized versions of this template.
The template places a text description in the page itself, and a box on the right with links to further details on the place. There are options for a slippy map centred on the left, and a static image in the box on the right.
The template puts the article in the correct categories: [[Category:Types in subarea]] and/or [[Category:Types in area]] and [[Category:name]] (if the category name exists) so there is no need to do that manually.
One does need to manually put the categories like [[Category:Types in subarea]] into categories like [[Category:Types in area|subarea]] and also into [[Category:subarea]], as well as placing [[Category:name]] into [[Category:Types in subarea]] and/or [[Category:Types in area]].
TemplateData
Template:Place is a template to describe details of a place
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| name | name | The name of the place being referred to (eg. Nottingham). This name is used to lookup category names (it may contain a disambiguating precision). | String | required |
| lang | lang | The two character language code for the results to be returned. Default is the language code determined by {{Langcode}} from the namespace or prefix of the current page name (which will be assumed to be 'en' if there's none). | String | optional |
| fullname | fullname | An alternate full name to display on the page (adding an article, or removing the disambiguating precision). If not set, the name parameter will be used. | String | optional |
| nativename | nativename | Native nominative name(s) in original spelling(s), displayed in the box below the name. If not set, nothing else will be displayed. | String | optional |
| in-name | in-name | An alternate locative name to display on the page (adding an article, or removing the disambiguating precision). If not set, the name parameter will be used as defined in Template:PlaceLang using default rules defined for the native language (with a 'in' preposition or similar). | String | optional |
| of-name | of-name | An alternate genitive name to display on the page (adding an article, or removing the disambiguating precision). If not set, the name parameter will be used as defined in Template:PlaceLang using default rules defined for the native language (with a 'of' preposition or similar). | String | optional |
| catname | catname | The effective name of the category to use for pages related to that place (without the namespace or language prefix). If not set, a category with the given 'name' (possibly suffixed in its 'subarea2' or 'subarea' or 'area' to disambiguate it) will first be used if it exists; then a category for 'type' in 'subarea2', or 'type' in 'subarea' will be checked; if still not found, the category for 'type' in 'area' will be used otherwise. | String | optional |
| sortkey | sortkey | The sortkey for categories. If sortkey is not supplied, the 'name' of the place will be used as the sortkey. | String | optional |
| type | type | The type of place (preferably in English as a singular noun, case is not significant). Recognized values are: village/ city/ ville/ town/ suburb/ hamlet/ hameau/ municipality /metropolitan borough and town/ county/ district/ canton/ kreis/ landkreis/ département/ province/ prefecture/ oblast/ région/ region/ state/ country/ pays/ sovereign state/ continent/ island/ isle. Some synonyms (including a few translated type names for compatibility reasons only) are recognized but they should map to existing types of places listed (with a plural name) in Category:Places, according to {{CategoryInPlaceLang}} (otherwise, unknown types will be categorized only as 'Places in ...' or supported translations); independently of categories, the type is used in the description and more freely translatable in {{PlaceLang}}, which allow all types to be translated easily from English or one of the compatibility synonyms. | String | required |
| subarea2 | subarea2 | A secondary subarea (for example, a county name) of the specified 'subarea'. Not used if there's no 'subarea' field specified. | String | optional |
| subarea | subarea | A subarea (for example, the name of a province of China) of the specified 'area'. It is possible to leave this 'subarea' undefined and just specify the 'area'. | String | optional |
| area | area | The area the place is in (usually a country name, for example China, or a continent name when describing a country) | String | required |
| lat | lat | The WGS84 latitude of the place (between -90.0 and 90.0 in decimal degrees: 0 on the equatorial circle, negative value in the Southern hemisphere). | Number | required |
| lon | lon | The WGS84 longitude of the place (between -180.0 and 180.0 in decimal degrees: 0 on the reference meridian passing near Greenwich, negative value in the Western hemisphere). | Number | required |
| zoom | zoom | The zoom level to open linked maps at. Default value is 12. | Number | optional |
| image | image | The title of the image to display. No image will be displayed if image is not defined | String | optional |
| map | map | "Yes" if you would like a slippymap included in the main page (width and height can also be used). No map will be displayed if this field is left blank or set to "No". | String | optional |
| list | list | URL of a mailing list for the place. If left blank, no link will appear. | String | optional |
| archive | archive | URL of an archive page for the place. If left blank, no link will appear. | String | optional |
| forum | forum | URL of a forum page for the place. If left blank, no link will appear. | String | optional |
| en.wikipedia | en.wikipedia | The article name on en.wikipedia.org (in English). Default value is name | String | optional |
| ar.wikipedia | ar.wikipedia | The article name on ar.wikipedia.org (in Arabic) | String | optional |
| bg.wikipedia | bg.wikipedia | The article name on bg.wikipedia.org (in Bulgarian) | String | optional |
| bn.wikipedia | bn.wikipedia | The article name on bn.wikipedia.org (in Bengali) | String | optional |
| ca.wikipedia | ca.wikipedia | The article name on ca.wikipedia.org (in Catalan) | String | optional |
| cs.wikipedia | cs.wikipedia | The article name on cs.wikipedia.org (in Czech) | String | optional |
| de.wikipedia | de.wikipedia | The article name on de.wikipedia.org (in German) | String | optional |
| el.wikipedia | el.wikipedia | The article name on el.wikipedia.org (in Greek) | String | optional |
| eo.wikipedia | eo.wikipedia | The article name on el.wikipedia.org (in Esperanto) | String | optional |
| es.wikipedia | es.wikipedia | The article name on es.wikipedia.org (in Spanish) | String | optional |
| fa.wikipedia | fa.wikipedia | The article name on fa.wikipedia.org (in Persan/Farsi) | String | optional |
| fi.wikipedia | fi.wikipedia | The article name on fa.wikipedia.org (in Finnish) | String | optional |
| fr.wikipedia | fr.wikipedia | The article name on fr.wikipedia.org (in French) | String | optional |
| gl.wikipedia | gl.wikipedia | The article name on gl.wikipedia.org (in Galician) | String | optional |
| he.wikipedia | he.wikipedia | The article name on he.wikipedia.org (in Hebrew) | String | optional |
| hi.wikipedia | hi.wikipedia | The article name on he.wikipedia.org (in Hindi) | String | optional |
| hr.wikipedia | hr.wikipedia | The article name on hr.wikipedia.org (in Croatian) | String | optional |
| hu.wikipedia | hu.wikipedia | The article name on hu.wikipedia.org (in Hungarian) | String | optional |
| id.wikipedia | id.wikipedia | The article name on id.wikipedia.org (in Indonesian) | String | optional |
| it.wikipedia | it.wikipedia | The article name on it.wikipedia.org (in Italian) | String | optional |
| ja.wikipedia | ja.wikipedia | The article name on ja.wikipedia.org (in Japanese) | String | optional |
| ka.wikipedia | ka.wikipedia | The article name on ka.wikipedia.org (in Georgian) | String | optional |
| kk.wikipedia | kk.wikipedia | The article name on kk.wikipedia.org (in Kazakh) | String | optional |
| ko.wikipedia | ko.wikipedia | The article name on ko.wikipedia.org (in Korean) | String | optional |
| mg.wikipedia | mg.wikipedia | The article name on mg.wikipedia.org (in Malagasy) | String | optional |
| mk.wikipedia | mk.wikipedia | The article name on mk.wikipedia.org (in Macedonian) | String | optional |
| ml.wikipedia | ml.wikipedia | The article name on ml.wikipedia.org (in Malalayam) | String | optional |
| ne.wikipedia | ne.wikipedia | The article name on ne.wikipedia.org (in Nepalese) | String | optional |
| nl.wikipedia | nl.wikipedia | The article name on nl.wikipedia.org (in Dutch) | String | optional |
| no.wikipedia | no.wikipedia | The article name on no.wikipedia.org (in Norwegian Bokmal) | String | optional |
| or.wikipedia | or.wikipedia | The article name on or.wikipedia.org (in Orya) | String | optional |
| pa.wikipedia | pa.wikipedia | The article name on pa.wikipedia.org (in Punjabi) | String | optional |
| pl.wikipedia | pl.wikipedia | The article name on pl.wikipedia.org (in Polish) | String | optional |
| pt.wikipedia | pt.wikipedia | The article name on pt.wikipedia.org (in Portuguese) | String | optional |
| ro.wikipedia | ro.wikipedia | The article name on ro.wikipedia.org (in Romanian) | String | optional |
| ru.wikipedia | ru.wikipedia | The article name on ru.wikipedia.org (in Russian) | String | optional |
| sk.wikipedia | sk.wikipedia | The article name on sk.wikipedia.org (in Slovakian) | String | optional |
| sl.wikipedia | sl.wikipedia | The article name on sl.wikipedia.org (in Slovenian) | String | optional |
| sq.wikipedia | sq.wikipedia | The article name on sq.wikipedia.org (in Albanian) | String | optional |
| sr.wikipedia | sr.wikipedia | The article name on sr.wikipedia.org (in Serbian) | String | optional |
| sv.wikipedia | sv.wikipedia | The article name on sv.wikipedia.org (in Swedish) | String | optional |
| ta.wikipedia | ta.wikipedia | The article name on ta.wikipedia.org (in Tamil) | String | optional |
| te.wikipedia | te.wikipedia | The article name on te.wikipedia.org (in Telugu) | String | optional |
| th.wikipedia | th.wikipedia | The article name on tr.wikipedia.org (in Thai) | String | optional |
| tr.wikipedia | tr.wikipedia | The article name on tr.wikipedia.org (in Turkish) | String | optional |
| uk.wikipedia | uk.wikipedia | The article name on uk.wikipedia.org (in Ukrainian) | String | optional |
| ur.wikipedia | ur.wikipedia | The article name on ur.wikipedia.org (in Urdu) | String | optional |
| vi.wikipedia | vi.wikipedia | The article name on vi.wikipedia.org (in Vietnamese) | String | optional |
| zh.wikipedia | zh.wikipedia | The article name on zh.wikipedia.org (in Chinese) | String | optional |
| wikidata | wikidata | The item id (Qnnn) on wikidata.org | String | optional |
| latlon | latlon | "Yes" if you would like to add link to LatLon.org public transport render. | String | optional |
| BestOfOSM | BestOfOSM | Inscription in BestOfOSM.org possible values are: BestOf/ Interesting/ Import/ Historic, categorize the page in the relevant category | String | optional |
| krdb | krdb | The database to use in the Keep Right link (CA: Canada; US: USA; XG: Central America and Caribbean; XC: South America; XA: Africa; EU: Europe; XD: Asia; AU: Australasia and Oceania). Default value is EU. See Template:Keepright for details. | String | optional |
| include | include | no description | Unknown | optional |
| long | long | The WGS84 longitude of the place (between -180.0 and 180.0 in decimal degrees: 0 on the reference meridian passing near Greenwich, negative value in the Western hemisphere). | Unknown | optional |
| osmose | osmose | no description | Unknown | optional |
| wikipedia | wikipedia | no description | Unknown | deprecated |
| welcome | welcome | to place a link to a welcome page below "Users in ..." | String | optional |
| width | width | The width of the map window in pixels. (Only number without unit.)
| Number | optional |
| height | height | The height of the map window in pixels. (Only number without unit.)
| Number | optional |
| layer | layer | Not currently working! Intended to change the map style (tile layer). (The Kartographer extension needs to be extended. See [[Template talk:Slippymap]].) | String | optional |
| nocat | nocat | switches off the categorization; set any string, e.g. "yes" or "nocat"
| String | optional |
| sidebar | sidebar | If set to "no", the sidebar will not be shown. | String | optional |
Categories
If there is a category for the name of the place (e.g. New York) then this category is added to the page.
The template will add the place to a category types in subarea (e.g. Cities in Berkshire).
If the subarea is not defined, the template will also add the place to the category types in area (eg. Cities in UK). This increases the chance the place will be allocated to a category that exists, but ensures that if a more specific category exists it isn't allocated to the parent category.
Usage
Full template
{{Place
|lang =xx (two character language code, default is from {{Langcode}})
|name =name
|nativename =native name (optional)
|in-name =in the native name (optional, see [[Template:PlaceLang]])
|of-name =of the native name (optional, see [[Template:PlaceLang]])
|type =something (village/city/ville/town/suburb/hamlet/hameau...
municipality/metropolitan borough and town...
county/district/canton/kreis/landkreis/département...
province/prefecture/oblast/région/region/state...
country/pays/sovereign state...
continent/island/isle)
|subarea2 =text (optional, name of a secondary subdivision of the following subarea)
|subarea =text (optional, usually province, prefecture or state name)
|area =text (usually country name, or continent when describing countries)
|lat =number, +/- (latitude of the place)
|long =number, +/- (longitude of the place)
|zoom =number 1-17 (optional, The zoom level to open linked
to maps at. Default value is 12. )
|image =image.png (optional, image in box)
|image caption = text (optional, description of the image in box)
|map =Yes (optional, slippymap included in the main page)
|width =# of pixels (optional, width of slippymap, default is equal to the text width)
|height =# of pixels (optional, width of slippymap, default is 400)
|layer =layer (optional, layer of slippymap, default is mapnik, documentation at [[Wiki:Maps]])
|latlon =Yes (optional, to add link to LatLon.org
public transport render.)
|sortkey =text (optional, If sortkey is not supplied the
name of the place will be used as the sortkey.)
|list =URL (optional, mailing list page for the place.)
|archive =URL (optional, archive page for the place)
|forum =URL (optional, forum page for the place)
|en.wikipedia=text (optional, article name on en.wikipedia.org,
default value is 'name')
|de.wikipedia=text (optional, article name on de.wikipedia.org)
|es.wikipedia=text (optional, article name on es.wikipedia.org)
|fr.wikipedia=text (optional, article name on fr.wikipedia.org)
|it.wikipedia=text (optional, article name on it.wikipedia.org)
|ja.wikipedia=text (optional, article name on ja.wikipedia.org)
|nl.wikipedia=text (optional, article name on nl.wikipedia.org)
|pt.wikipedia=text (optional, article name on ja.wikipedia.org)
|ru.wikipedia=text (optional, article name on ru.wikipedia.org)
|uk.wikipedia=text (optional, article name on uk.wikipedia.org)
|wikidata =Qnnn (optional, element id on wikidata.org)
|BestOfOSM =text (optional, possibles values are:
BestOf/ Interesting/ Import/ Historic)
|krdb =text (optional, database to use in the 'Keep Right' link. Default
value is EU. See [[Template:Keepright]] for details.)
}}
Blank template with required fields only
{{Place
|name =
|type =
|area =
|lat =
|long =
}}
Blank template with most available fields
{{Place|lang=en
|name =
|type =
|subarea2 =
|subarea =
|area =
|lat =
|long =
|zoom = 12
|image =
|map =
|width =
|height =
|layer =
|sortkey =
|list =
|archive =
|forum =
|de.wikipedia=
|en.wikipedia=
|es.wikipedia=
|fr.wikipedia=
|it.wikipedia=
|ja.wikipedia=
|ru.wikipedia=
|uk.wikipedia=
|wikidata =
|latlon =
|BestOfOSM =
|krdb =
}}
Example - UK town (no slippy map displayed, static image used instead)
| V・T・E Reading, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom |
| latitude: 51.445, longitude: -0.9685 |
| Browse map of Reading 51°26′42.00″ N, 0°58′06.60″ W |
| Edit map |
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External links:
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| Use this template for your locality |
Reading is a town in Berkshire, England, United Kingdom at latitude 51°26′42.00″ North, longitude 0°58′06.60″ West.
{{Place|lang=en
|name = Reading
|type = town
|subarea2 = Berkshire
|subarea = England
|area = United Kingdom
|lat = 51.445
|long = -0.9685
|zoom = 11
|image = File:UK Reading status.png
|wikidata=Q161491
}}
Example - US city (no static image, but using a slippy map below the description)
V・T・E Los Angeles, California, United States  |
| latitude: 34.0214, longitude: -118.4120 |
| Browse map of Los Angeles 34°01′17.04″ N, 118°24′43.20″ W |
| Edit map |
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External links:
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| Use this template for your locality |
{{Place|lang=en
|name = Los Angeles
|type = city
|subarea = California
|area = United States
|lat=34.0214|long=-118.4120
|map=yes|zoom=10|width=380|height=560
}}
Example - Nepal Region (no subarea, alternative image, and map used below the description)
| V・T・E The Western Development Region, Nepal पश्चिमाञ्चल विकास क्षेत्र Pashchimānchal Bikās Kshetra |
| latitude: 28.335, longitude: 83.947 |
| Browse map of the Western Development Region 28°20′06.00″ N, 83°56′49.20″ E |
| Edit map |
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External links:
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| Use this template for your locality |
{{Place|lang=en
|name=Western Development Region
|nativename=पश्चिमाञ्चल विकास क्षेत्र<br />''Pashchimānchal Bikās Kshetra''
|fullname=The Western Development Region
|in-name=in the Western Development Region
|of-name=of the Western Development Region
|type=region
|area=Nepal
|image=File:Subdivisions of Nepal EN.png
|image caption=Location map of subdivisions of Nepal
|forum=https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewforum.php?id=81 OpenStreetMap users: Nepal
|lat=28.335|long=83.947
|map=slippy|zoom=8|width=480|height=430
|krdb=XD
|en.wikipedia=Western Development Region, Nepal
|de.wikipedia=Entwicklungsregion West (Nepal)
|pl.wikipedia=Western Development Region
|wikidata=Q28462
}}
See also
- {{PlaceLang}} – Used internally to translate most texts displayed by the current template.
- {{CategoryInPlaceLang}} – Used internally to adapt the translated category names (warning! they must first be created separately, do not translate them blindly !)
- {{Country}} – Larger template including this one, with an additional top banner intended for places that are countries.