Coordinate-referenced map templates
The process of
supplying freely licensed maps for direct use in
Wikipedia articles is important to make the
articles complete, especially for offline
versions. A complementary effort, however, is
adding
latitude and longitude coordinates to
articles about geographically fixed entities.
This enables readers to click through to find
maps of the surrounding area on external web
sites like Google Maps. It also allows article
titles, links, etc. to be automatically plotted
on maps.
To learn how
to add geographic coordinates to a page using
templates, please see
Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates.