Template:UF-hcard-geo

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button to indicate the presence of an hCard microformat
button to indicate the presence of an hCard microformat
button to indicate the presence of a Geo microformat
button to indicate the presence of a Geo microformat

The HTML mark up produced by this template includes an hCard microformat, which makes the place-name and location parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue article 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 Geo microformat, which additionally makes the coordinates (latitude & longitude) parsable, so that they can be, say, looked up on a map, or downloaded to a GPS unit. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please see the microformat project.

hCard uses HTML classes including:

  • "adr"
  • "county-name"
  • "fn"
  • "label"
  • "locality"
  • "nickname"
  • "note"
  • "org"
  • "vcard"

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Geo is produced by calling {{coord}}, and uses HTML classes hCard uses HTML classes including:

  • "geo"
  • "latitude"
  • "longitude"

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Please do not rename or remove these classes.