Template:Place/doc

Summary

Template:Place is a template to place details of a place on to the wiki page with the language set by the parameter "lang" or in the language of the current page returned by {{Langcode}} (this language code is determined by the namespace for DE,ES,FR,IT,JA,NL,RU or by the pagename prefix otherwise). Autotranslation is supported (see {{PlaceLang}}) but there are still specialized versions of this template.

The template places a text description in the page itself, and a box on the right with links to further details on the place. There are options for a slippy map centred on the left, and a static image in the box on the right.

The template puts the article in the correct categories: [[Category:Types in subarea]] and/or [[Category:Types in area]] and [[Category:name]] (if the category name exists) so there is no need to do that manually.

One does need to manually put the categories like [[Category:Types in subarea]] into categories like [[Category:Types in area|subarea]] and also into [[Category:subarea]], as well as placing [[Category:name]] into [[Category:Types in subarea]] and/or [[Category:Types in area]].

TemplateData

Template:Place is a template to describe details of a place

Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
name	name	The name of the place being referred to (eg. Nottingham). This name is used to lookup category names (it may contain a disambiguating precision).	String	required
lang	lang	The two character language code for the results to be returned. Default is the language code determined by {{Langcode}} from the namespace or prefix of the current page name (which will be assumed to be 'en' if there's none).	String	optional
fullname	fullname	An alternate full name to display on the page (adding an article, or removing the disambiguating precision). If not set, the name parameter will be used.	String	optional
nativename	nativename	Native nominative name(s) in original spelling(s), displayed in the box below the name. If not set, nothing else will be displayed.	String	optional
in-name	in-name	An alternate locative name to display on the page (adding an article, or removing the disambiguating precision). If not set, the name parameter will be used as defined in Template:PlaceLang using default rules defined for the native language (with a 'in' preposition or similar).	String	optional
of-name	of-name	An alternate genitive name to display on the page (adding an article, or removing the disambiguating precision). If not set, the name parameter will be used as defined in Template:PlaceLang using default rules defined for the native language (with a 'of' preposition or similar).	String	optional
catname	catname	The effective name of the category to use for pages related to that place (without the namespace or language prefix). If not set, a category with the given 'name' (possibly suffixed in its 'subarea2' or 'subarea' or 'area' to disambiguate it) will first be used if it exists; then a category for 'type' in 'subarea2', or 'type' in 'subarea' will be checked; if still not found, the category for 'type' in 'area' will be used otherwise.	String	optional
sortkey	sortkey	The sortkey for categories. If sortkey is not supplied, the 'name' of the place will be used as the sortkey.	String	optional
type	type	The type of place (preferably in English as a singular noun, case is not significant). Recognized values are: village/ city/ ville/ town/ suburb/ hamlet/ hameau/ municipality /metropolitan borough and town/ county/ district/ canton/ kreis/ landkreis/ département/ province/ prefecture/ oblast/ région/ region/ state/ country/ pays/ sovereign state/ continent/ island/ isle. Some synonyms (including a few translated type names for compatibility reasons only) are recognized but they should map to existing types of places listed (with a plural name) in Category:Places, according to {{CategoryInPlaceLang}} (otherwise, unknown types will be categorized only as 'Places in ...' or supported translations); independently of categories, the type is used in the description and more freely translatable in {{PlaceLang}}, which allow all types to be translated easily from English or one of the compatibility synonyms.	String	required
subarea2	subarea2	A secondary subarea (for example, a county name) of the specified 'subarea'. Not used if there's no 'subarea' field specified.	String	optional
subarea	subarea	A subarea (for example, the name of a province of China) of the specified 'area'. It is possible to leave this 'subarea' undefined and just specify the 'area'.	String	optional
area	area	The area the place is in (usually a country name, for example China, or a continent name when describing a country)	String	required
lat	lat	The WGS84 latitude of the place (between -90.0 and 90.0 in decimal degrees: 0 on the equatorial circle, negative value in the Southern hemisphere).	Number	required
lon	lon	The WGS84 longitude of the place (between -180.0 and 180.0 in decimal degrees: 0 on the reference meridian passing near Greenwich, negative value in the Western hemisphere).	Number	required
zoom	zoom	The zoom level to open linked maps at. Default value is 12.	Number	optional
image	image	The title of the image to display. No image will be displayed if image is not defined	String	optional
map	map	"Yes" if you would like a slippymap included in the main page (width and height can also be used). No map will be displayed if this field is left blank or set to "No".	String	optional
list	list	URL of a mailing list for the place. If left blank, no link will appear.	String	optional
archive	archive	URL of an archive page for the place. If left blank, no link will appear.	String	optional
forum	forum	URL of a forum page for the place. If left blank, no link will appear.	String	optional
en.wikipedia	en.wikipedia	The article name on en.wikipedia.org (in English). Default value is name	String	optional
ar.wikipedia	ar.wikipedia	The article name on ar.wikipedia.org (in Arabic)	String	optional
bg.wikipedia	bg.wikipedia	The article name on bg.wikipedia.org (in Bulgarian)	String	optional
bn.wikipedia	bn.wikipedia	The article name on bn.wikipedia.org (in Bengali)	String	optional
ca.wikipedia	ca.wikipedia	The article name on ca.wikipedia.org (in Catalan)	String	optional
cs.wikipedia	cs.wikipedia	The article name on cs.wikipedia.org (in Czech)	String	optional
de.wikipedia	de.wikipedia	The article name on de.wikipedia.org (in German)	String	optional
el.wikipedia	el.wikipedia	The article name on el.wikipedia.org (in Greek)	String	optional
eo.wikipedia	eo.wikipedia	The article name on el.wikipedia.org (in Esperanto)	String	optional
es.wikipedia	es.wikipedia	The article name on es.wikipedia.org (in Spanish)	String	optional
fa.wikipedia	fa.wikipedia	The article name on fa.wikipedia.org (in Persan/Farsi)	String	optional
fi.wikipedia	fi.wikipedia	The article name on fa.wikipedia.org (in Finnish)	String	optional
fr.wikipedia	fr.wikipedia	The article name on fr.wikipedia.org (in French)	String	optional
gl.wikipedia	gl.wikipedia	The article name on gl.wikipedia.org (in Galician)	String	optional
he.wikipedia	he.wikipedia	The article name on he.wikipedia.org (in Hebrew)	String	optional
hi.wikipedia	hi.wikipedia	The article name on he.wikipedia.org (in Hindi)	String	optional
hr.wikipedia	hr.wikipedia	The article name on hr.wikipedia.org (in Croatian)	String	optional
hu.wikipedia	hu.wikipedia	The article name on hu.wikipedia.org (in Hungarian)	String	optional
id.wikipedia	id.wikipedia	The article name on id.wikipedia.org (in Indonesian)	String	optional
it.wikipedia	it.wikipedia	The article name on it.wikipedia.org (in Italian)	String	optional
ja.wikipedia	ja.wikipedia	The article name on ja.wikipedia.org (in Japanese)	String	optional
ka.wikipedia	ka.wikipedia	The article name on ka.wikipedia.org (in Georgian)	String	optional
kk.wikipedia	kk.wikipedia	The article name on kk.wikipedia.org (in Kazakh)	String	optional
ko.wikipedia	ko.wikipedia	The article name on ko.wikipedia.org (in Korean)	String	optional
mg.wikipedia	mg.wikipedia	The article name on mg.wikipedia.org (in Malagasy)	String	optional
mk.wikipedia	mk.wikipedia	The article name on mk.wikipedia.org (in Macedonian)	String	optional
ml.wikipedia	ml.wikipedia	The article name on ml.wikipedia.org (in Malalayam)	String	optional
ne.wikipedia	ne.wikipedia	The article name on ne.wikipedia.org (in Nepalese)	String	optional
nl.wikipedia	nl.wikipedia	The article name on nl.wikipedia.org (in Dutch)	String	optional
no.wikipedia	no.wikipedia	The article name on no.wikipedia.org (in Norwegian Bokmal)	String	optional
or.wikipedia	or.wikipedia	The article name on or.wikipedia.org (in Orya)	String	optional
pl.wikipedia	pl.wikipedia	The article name on pl.wikipedia.org (in Polish)	String	optional
pt.wikipedia	pt.wikipedia	The article name on pt.wikipedia.org (in Portuguese)	String	optional
ro.wikipedia	ro.wikipedia	The article name on ro.wikipedia.org (in Romanian)	String	optional
ru.wikipedia	ru.wikipedia	The article name on ru.wikipedia.org (in Russian)	String	optional
sk.wikipedia	sk.wikipedia	The article name on sk.wikipedia.org (in Slovakian)	String	optional
sl.wikipedia	sl.wikipedia	The article name on sl.wikipedia.org (in Slovenian)	String	optional
sq.wikipedia	sq.wikipedia	The article name on sq.wikipedia.org (in Albanian)	String	optional
sr.wikipedia	sr.wikipedia	The article name on sr.wikipedia.org (in Serbian)	String	optional
sv.wikipedia	sv.wikipedia	The article name on sv.wikipedia.org (in Swedish)	String	optional
ta.wikipedia	ta.wikipedia	The article name on ta.wikipedia.org (in Tamil)	String	optional
te.wikipedia	te.wikipedia	The article name on te.wikipedia.org (in Telugu)	String	optional
th.wikipedia	th.wikipedia	The article name on tr.wikipedia.org (in Thai)	String	optional
tr.wikipedia	tr.wikipedia	The article name on tr.wikipedia.org (in Turkish)	String	optional
uk.wikipedia	uk.wikipedia	The article name on uk.wikipedia.org (in Ukrainian)	String	optional
ur.wikipedia	ur.wikipedia	The article name on ur.wikipedia.org (in Urdu)	String	optional
vi.wikipedia	vi.wikipedia	The article name on vi.wikipedia.org (in Vietnamese)	String	optional
zh.wikipedia	zh.wikipedia	The article name on zh.wikipedia.org (in Chinese)	String	optional
wikidata	wikidata	The item id (Qnnn) on wikidata.org	String	optional
latlon	latlon	"Yes" if you would like to add link to LatLon.org public transport render.	String	optional
BestOfOSM	BestOfOSM	Inscription in BestOfOSM.org possible values are: BestOf/ Interesting/ Import/ Historic, categorize the page in the relevant category	String	optional
krdb	krdb	The database to use in the Keep Right link (CA: Canada; US: USA; XG: Central America and Caribbean; XC: South America; XA: Africa; EU: Europe; XD: Asia; AU: Australasia and Oceania). Default value is EU. See Template:Keepright for details.	String	optional
include	include	no description	Unknown	optional
long	long	The WGS84 longitude of the place (between -180.0 and 180.0 in decimal degrees: 0 on the reference meridian passing near Greenwich, negative value in the Western hemisphere).	Unknown	optional
osmose	osmose	no description	Unknown	optional
wikipedia	wikipedia	no description	Unknown	deprecated
width	width	no description	Unknown	optional
height	height	no description	Unknown	optional
layer	layer	no description	Unknown	optional
nocat	nocat	no description	Unknown	optional

Categories

If there is a category for the name of the place (e.g. New York) then this category is added to the page.

The template will add the place to a category types in subarea (e.g. Cities in Berkshire).

If the subarea is not defined, the template will also add the place to the category types in area (eg. Cities in UK). This increases the chance the place will be allocated to a category that exists, but ensures that if a more specific category exists it isn't allocated to the parent category.

Usage

Full template

{{Place
|lang        =xx          (two character language code, default is from {{Langcode}})
|name        =name
|nativename  =native name        (optional)
|in-name     =in the native name (optional, see [[Template:PlaceLang]])
|of-name     =of the native name (optional, see [[Template:PlaceLang]])
|type        =something   (village/city/ville/town/suburb/hamlet/hameau...
                           municipality/metropolitan borough and town...
                           county/district/canton/kreis/landkreis/département...
                           province/prefecture/oblast/région/region/state...
                           country/pays/sovereign state...
                           continent/island/isle)
|subarea2    =text        (optional, name of a secondary subdivision of the following subarea)
|subarea     =text        (optional, usually province, prefecture or state name)
|area        =text        (usually country name, or continent when describing countries)
|lat         =number, +/- (latitude of the place)
|long        =number, +/- (longitude of the place)
|zoom        =number 1-17 (optional, The zoom level to open linked 
                           to maps at. Default value is 12. )
|image       =image.png   (optional, image in box)
|image caption = text     (optional, description of the image in box)
|map         =Yes         (optional, slippymap included in the main page)
|width       =# of pixels (optional, width of slippymap, default is equal to the text width)
|height      =# of pixels (optional, width of slippymap, default is 400)
|layer       =layer       (optional, layer of slippymap, default is mapnik, documentation at [[Wiki:Maps]])
|latlon      =Yes         (optional, to add link to LatLon.org 
                           public transport render.)
|sortkey     =text        (optional, If sortkey is not supplied the 
                           name of the place will be used as the sortkey.)
|list        =URL         (optional, mailing list page for the place.)
|archive     =URL         (optional, archive page for the place)
|forum       =URL         (optional, forum page for the place)
|en.wikipedia=text        (optional, article name on en.wikipedia.org, 
                           default value is 'name')
|de.wikipedia=text        (optional, article name on de.wikipedia.org)
|es.wikipedia=text        (optional, article name on es.wikipedia.org)
|fr.wikipedia=text        (optional, article name on fr.wikipedia.org)
|it.wikipedia=text        (optional, article name on it.wikipedia.org)
|ja.wikipedia=text        (optional, article name on ja.wikipedia.org)
|nl.wikipedia=text        (optional, article name on nl.wikipedia.org)
|pt.wikipedia=text        (optional, article name on ja.wikipedia.org)
|ru.wikipedia=text        (optional, article name on ru.wikipedia.org)
|uk.wikipedia=text        (optional, article name on uk.wikipedia.org)
|wikidata    =Qnnn        (optional, element id on wikidata.org)
|BestOfOSM   =text        (optional, possibles values are: 
                           BestOf/ Interesting/ Import/ Historic)
|krdb        =text        (optional, database to use in the 'Keep Right' link. Default
                           value is EU. See [[Template:Keepright]] for details.)
}}

Blank template with required fields only

{{Place
|name = 
|type = 
|area = 
|lat  = 
|long = 
}}

Blank template with most available fields

{{Place|lang=en
|name        = 
|type        = 
|subarea2    = 
|subarea     = 
|area        = 
|lat         = 
|long        = 
|zoom        = 12
|image       = 
|map         = 
|width       = 
|height      = 
|layer       = 
|sortkey     = 
|list        = 
|archive     = 
|forum       = 
|de.wikipedia= 
|en.wikipedia= 
|es.wikipedia= 
|fr.wikipedia= 
|it.wikipedia= 
|ja.wikipedia= 
|ru.wikipedia= 
|uk.wikipedia= 
|wikidata    = 
|latlon      = 
|BestOfOSM   = 
|krdb        = 
}}

Example - UK town (no slippy map displayed, static image used instead)

V・T・E Reading, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom

latitude: 51.445, longitude: -0.9685

Browse map of Reading 51°26′42.00″ N, 0°58′06.60″ W

Edit map

Users in Reading GPS traces Geohack for OSM with more maps

External links: Notes Quality checks with Osmose Keep Right! OSM Inspector Streets without names CheckAutopista2 Public transport with öpnvkarte.de Wikipedia: en Wikidata: Q161491 Wikimedia Commons OpenStreetMap contributors map Mapillary KartaView

Use this template for your locality

Reading is a town in Berkshire, England, United Kingdom at latitude 51°26′42.00″ North, longitude 0°58′06.60″ West.

{{Place|lang=en
|name        = Reading
|type        = town
|subarea2    = Berkshire
|subarea     = England
|area        = United Kingdom
|lat         = 51.445
|long        = -0.9685
|zoom        = 11
|image       = File:UK Reading status.png
|wikidata=Q161491
}}

Example - US city (no static image, but using a slippy map below the description)

V・T・E Los Angeles, California, United States

latitude: 34.0214, longitude: -118.4120

Browse map of Los Angeles 34°01′17.04″ N, 118°24′43.20″ W

Edit map

Users in Los Angeles GPS traces Geohack for OSM with more maps

External links: Notes Quality checks with Osmose Keep Right! OSM Inspector Streets without names CheckAutopista2 Public transport with öpnvkarte.de Wikipedia: en Wikimedia Commons OpenStreetMap contributors map Mapillary KartaView

Use this template for your locality

Los Angeles is a city in California, United States at latitude 34°01′17.04″ North, longitude 118°24′43.20″ West.

{{Place|lang=en
|name        = Los Angeles
|type        = city
|subarea     = California
|area        = United States
|lat=34.0214|long=-118.4120
|map=yes|zoom=10|width=380|height=560
}}

Example - Nepal Region (no subarea, alternative image, and map used below the description)

V・T・E The Western Development Region, Nepal पश्चिमाञ्चल विकास क्षेत्र Pashchimānchal Bikās Kshetra

latitude: 28.335, longitude: 83.947

Browse map of the Western Development Region 28°20′06.00″ N, 83°56′49.20″ E

Edit map

Users in the Western Development Region GPS traces Geohack for OSM with more maps

External links: OpenStreetMap users: Nepal Forum Notes Quality checks with Osmose Keep Right! OSM Inspector Streets without names CheckAutopista2 Public transport with öpnvkarte.de Wikipedia: en, de, pl Wikidata: Q28462 Wikimedia Commons OpenStreetMap contributors map Mapillary KartaView

Use this template for your locality

The Western Development Region is a region in Nepal at latitude 28°20′06.00″ North, longitude 83°56′49.20″ East.

{{Place|lang=en
|name=Western Development Region
|nativename=पश्चिमाञ्चल विकास क्षेत्र<br />''Pashchimānchal Bikās Kshetra''
|fullname=The Western Development Region
|in-name=in the Western Development Region
|of-name=of the Western Development Region
|type=region
|area=Nepal
|image=File:Subdivisions of Nepal EN.png
|image caption=Location map of subdivisions of Nepal
|forum=https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewforum.php?id=81 OpenStreetMap users: Nepal
|lat=28.335|long=83.947
|map=slippy|zoom=8|width=480|height=430
|krdb=XD
|en.wikipedia=Western Development Region, Nepal
|de.wikipedia=Entwicklungsregion West (Nepal)
|pl.wikipedia=Western Development Region
|wikidata=Q28462
}}

See also

• {{PlaceLang}} – Used internally to translate most texts displayed by the current template.
• {{CategoryInPlaceLang}} – Used internally to adapt the translated category names (warning! they must first be created separately, do not translate them blindly !)
• {{Country}} – Larger template including this one, with an additional top banner intended for places that are countries.