> and I doubt this is the best way for WikiMiniAtlas, since there
> are so many different ways that the coord template can be called.
> Just consider all the lat/lat_min parameters to infobox templates.
> Shouldn't you just dig out from the external links table, all the
> links to the stable.toolserver.org/geohack/ and parse the
> coordinates from those URLs?
Yes I should, and I thought I already told you that this is what I'm doing for 
the english wikipedia and for commons. And I also set up a page explaining 
why this is quiite a lot of work, and how people can help me with this, if 
they want faster updates for their language. 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiMiniAtlas/CoordinateProcessing
I guess I'll have to make this more public....


> And when WikiMiniAtlas is invoked from an article, such as
> Grängesberg, the call to the toolserver (that fetches the map
> tiles) could perhaps be used for updating the coordinate for that
> article.  We can be pretty sure that those who update a coordinate
> will pop up the WikiMiniAtlas to see they made no mistake.
Yeah, that's not a bad idea. I even used to have a Javascript gadget that sent 
the data to the toolserver, whenever a coordinate in an article was updated. 
In any case, the red dot, is generated on the the client side and will always 
use the most up to date coordinates.

Dschwen

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