Template:Poi/doc

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POI stands for point of interest. In a wiki article it denotes some geographic location like a city, port or an anchorage. Such a POI must have a name and a type, also it should have some geographic coordinates and a description text.

There are two styles in using this template.

Usage

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Template:Coord style

{{poi |DD|M.M|N|DDD|M.M|E|
| type=
| name=
| text=
}}

Coordinates in this format are quite useful then Template:Coord locations are converted into Template:Poi and similar templates.

In this case the coordinates of a location are represented by 6 positional parameters. The first 3 parameters are: round number degrees of latitude, minutes of latitude, N or S for hemisphere. The further 3 parameters are the similar to the first group, but they denote the longitude part of a coordinate.

NB: Mind a vertical bar "|" at the end of coordinate parameters.

Lat, Lon style

{{poi | lat= | lon=
| type=
| name=
| text=
}}

Here the coordinates are defined by lat and lon parameters represented in decimal degrees (negative values denote either S or W hemispheres).

Parameters

A value of the type parameter should be one of: waypoint, berth, anchorage, buoy (for mooring buoy fields), officials, provisioning (for grocery stores, markets and supermarkets), facilities, service, chandler (for yacht's stores), catering (for restaurants, caffes, eateries, etc.) accomodation, beach, other.

Examples

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Template:Coord style:

{{poi |41|14.633|N|009|08.904|E|
| type= anchorage
| name= Cala Spinosa
| text= A narrow bay W of Baia di Santa Reparata, good holding on sandy patches.
}}

Expands to: Template:Poi test

Lat, Lon style:

{{poi
|lat=41.23762|lon=9.1968
|type=berth
|name=Lega Navale di Santa Teresa Gallura
|url=http://www.leganavale.it/strutture/s_teresa_di_gallura/s_teresa_di_gallura
|text= A private yacht club located at the small Eastern inlet just before the marina
}}

Gives: Template:Poi test