The HTML mark up produced by this template includes an , which makes the place-name and location by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue articles across Wikipedia, or via a browser tool operated by a person, to (for example) add the subject to an address book. Within the hCard is a , which additionally makes the (latitude & longitude) parsable, so that they can be, say, looked up on a map, or downloaded to a unit. For more information about the use of on Wikipedia, please see .
Sub-templates
If the place or venue has an "established", "founded", "opened" or similar date, use {{start date}} .
If it has a URL, use {{URL}}.
Please do not remove instances of these sub-templates.
Classes
hCard uses HTML classes including:
- adr
- agent
- category
- county-name
- extended-address
- fn
- label
- locality
- nickname
- note
- org
- region
- street-address
- uid
- url
- vcard
Geo is produced by calling {{coord}}, and uses HTML classes:
- geo
- latitude
- longitude
Please do not rename or remove these classes nor collapse nested elements which use them.
Precision
When giving coordinates, please use an . Do not use {{coord}}'s |name= parameter.