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Placement of the center of a location?

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Greetings and felicitations. The section title is awkward, but I can't think of a better way to phrase it. In particular with cities (and other larger areas), what coordinates should I use—the geographic center of the area in question, or the business district/center of activity? —DocWatson42 (talk) 04:06, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Edit: An example: North Haven, Maine. One set of coordinates was in the infobox, and another at the bottom of the article (as is often the case with American municipalities and counties), which I moved to the infobox, to aid in comparing the two. The first points to the northern part of the island, near the (possible) geographic center of the island, while the second appears to point to the business district. —DocWatson42 (talk) 04:14, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Bumping. —DocWatson42 (talk) 08:58, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Bumping again, in part to avoid the archiving of this topic. —DocWatson42 (talk) 18:07, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@DocWatson42: Many settlements grew up around the place where two transport routes met, such as a crossroads, or a bridge over a river. I would pick that point, if it can be identified. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:13, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Okay—so the human, rather than the geographic, center (assuming there is one, and it can be identified)? —DocWatson42 (talk) 22:23, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GeoGroup

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Since we are encouraging people to use GeoGroup, can we get it fixed as it is not working at all, just hangs when you try to display all the coords. Kerry (talk) 23:23, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

But if you wait long enough, it will display a map of the world with an error message saying "No data to display". Kerry (talk) 23:33, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template is not compatible with night mode

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The coordinates icon is not displaying very well in the new upcoming night theme: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F54691215 Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona?vectornightmode=1&useskin=vector-2022

Is it perhaps time to update this icon, perhaps to one of the map icons in https://doc.wikimedia.org/codex/latest/icons/all-icons.html ? 🐸 Jdlrobson (talk) 04:55, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jdlrobson The icon is provided by the wikiminiatlas gadget, and I believe hosted on meta, or toolforge. It is managed by User:Dschwen. —TheDJ (talkcontribs) 16:37, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question about the "city" parameter (repost)

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At what point does the size of the population stop mattering? I have been generally ignoring populations smaller than 10,000 and just entering the unmodified "city" parameter—is this correct? (Reposted from 27 May 2023.) —DocWatson42 (talk) 21:02, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]