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Karl, as I was driving to work today, I stopped into a car wash.  It then hit me that we really, really should include the latitude/longitude coordinates field in our Infoboxes, even for Persons, I suppose.  The main reason is that I truly envision that eventually Centiare will fully encorporate a "Google Maps" type of application, and this will be the best way to pinpoint businesses, and of course, all of their branch/store/franchise locations.  Do you agree?  If so, I would like to leave it to you to modify the templates to include the "correct" lat/long labels. --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 07:40, 7 December 2006 (PST)
 
Karl, as I was driving to work today, I stopped into a car wash.  It then hit me that we really, really should include the latitude/longitude coordinates field in our Infoboxes, even for Persons, I suppose.  The main reason is that I truly envision that eventually Centiare will fully encorporate a "Google Maps" type of application, and this will be the best way to pinpoint businesses, and of course, all of their branch/store/franchise locations.  Do you agree?  If so, I would like to leave it to you to modify the templates to include the "correct" lat/long labels. --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 07:40, 7 December 2006 (PST)
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:No problema - infobox_city has two tags for long/lat. It will be a cinch to add these to the person, company & NPO templates. I'll make them optional, of course, so that we don't get a bunch of garbage rendered if they're left blank. It will be interesting to monitor the adoption rate. [[User:Centiare|Centiare]] 08:07, 7 December 2006 (PST)
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:Done. Simply add [[Template:Mapit-US-cityscale]] to any page, along with the specified coordinates. Then, add the semantically tagged coordinates to the ''reference'' element in any infobox. See [[Directory:Centiare|Centiare]] for example.
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:''Questions'':
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:* For the lat/long semantic attributes, do we want decimal coordinates (as used in the template), or traditional? Right now I'm using traditional.
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:* What level of granularity do we need? I used [[Directory:Huntington Beach|Huntington Beach]] for Centiare, but it only provides a general view. [[User:Centiare|Centiare]] 09:29, 7 December 2006 (PST)
    
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