Editing Encyclopedia:Obtaining geographic coordinates (section)

====Google Maps====
[http://maps.google.com/ Google Maps] can be used to find coordinates 3 different ways, although many other sites make use of Google imagery with specialist overlays.
* The simplest way to get coordinates from Google Maps is to right-click on the desired location and click "What's here?". The coordinates are now shown in the search box.
* Coordinates can also be extracted from generated links with the following procedure. First locate the place you require coordinates for, and double click on it to centre the map around that point. Then click "Link" at the top of the map, and the coordinates (in degrees and parts of a degree in decimals) appear in the address bar, e.g. "https://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.455558,-2.605047&spn=0.032304,0.069523". In this case the latitude is 51.455558, and the longitude is -2.605047. The reverse is possible by entering the lat and long into the search bar, with a space between them. 
* Copying the coordinates from the URL can be made easier with a Javascript-supporting browser, by adding any of the following [[bookmarklet]]s (create a new bookmark with this code as the URL):
** There is a [https://github.com/rottina/wiki-coords wiki-coords] bookmarklet, maintained in [[GitHub]].
** The following bookmarklet will create an output such as <code><nowiki>{{coord|51.5030515|-0.1281352}}</nowiki></code>: <blockquote><code><nowiki>javascript: (function () { var matches = location.toString().match("\/maps\/.*@([0-9.-]+),([0-9.-]+)"); prompt('',"{{coord|" + matches[1] + "|" + matches[2] + "}}"); }());</nowiki></code></blockquote>
** The following bookmarklet will create an output such as <code><nowiki>{{coord|51|30|10.99|N|0|07|41.29|W|display=title}}</nowiki></code>: <blockquote><code><nowiki>javascript:var matches = location.toString().match("\/maps\/.*@([0-9.-]+),([0-9.-]+)");coord=[matches[1],matches[2]];output='{{coord|';for(x in [0,1]){neg=(coord[x]<0);coord[x]=Math.abs(coord[x]);deg=Math.floor(coord[x]);minr=(coord[x]-deg)*60;min=Math.floor(minr);sec=Math.floor((minr - min)*60*100000)/100000;output+=deg+"|"+(min<10?'0':'')+min+"|"+(sec<10?'0':'')+sec.toFixed(2)+'|'+(x==0?(neg?'S|':'N|'):(neg?'W|':'E|')+"display=title}}");};void(prompt('Coordinates for Wikipedia',output));</nowiki></code></blockquote>
: To use these bookmarklets, centre the map on the desired point and then open the newly created bookmark. A coordinate template text will appear, ready to be pasted to Wikipedia.