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Feature Request - Reference geo coordinates from an article
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Author: arunganesh03

Description:
With some wonderful code, wikipedia now churns out clickable location maps of
countries which add a new degree of interactability to the wiki ex: http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institutes_of_Management . But the process of
marking each point using coordinates is tiring and cumbersome especially if
something like a clickable road map is to be made.
It would be very useful if one could reference the coordinates from an article
like geo:London would return the geographical coordinates of London and mark it
on the map. This can really unleash the power of location maps.


Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
OS: Windows XP
Platform: PC
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Referencing_geo_coordinates

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 9:37 PM
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Marking as WONTFIX: Semantic MediaWiki implements this kind of stuff, and enabling it on WMF wikis is another bug.