User talk:Aschrei

Welcome

Hello, Aschrei, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} and your question on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Help with GPS

{{helpme}} I want to know how to add a location (at google maps for example, with the GPS coordinates) on an article and how to link it to the facebook search.

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For most articles, you should just put this;

{{coord|<lat>|<long>|display=title}}

For example,

{{Coord|57|18|22.5|N|4|27|32.7|W|display=title}}

or

{{Coord|44.112|-87.913|display=title}}

That code should go at the end of the article (after the 'External links'). They add a little globe thingy, at the top of the article, which links to maps - e.g. [1]

If you need help on it, see Template:Coord.

If the article in question has an infobox thingy, then it is a bit different, because it is added as an infobox parameter.

For example, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire uses {{infobox UK place}}, and that infobox lets you use maps. So the coords are in the infobox with the lines,

|map_type = Nottinghamshire
|latitude = 53.0175
|longitude = -1.3060

I hope that helps. If you need more help, please ask again (with another {{helpme}}. Cheers, Chzz ► 05:17, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Re. Facebook - sorry, no idea. You'd have to ask Facebook for support on that. We can only help with Wikipedia stuff. Chzz ► 05:22, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]