How to Add Wikipedia Articles to Google Earth

Learn how to put an article from Wikipedia (i.e. your business entry) on Google Earth. Once the article has been added to Google Earth, people browsing Google Earth will see the Wikipedia logo, and will browse to your article when they click on it.

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Steps

1. Find an article you wish to see placed in Google Earth.
2. Click “Edit this page” at the top of the page.
3. At the bottom of the article, paste this text in: “{{coord|LAT|LONG|display=title}}"
* “LAT” is the decimal latitude.
* “LONG” is the decimal longitude.
* "title" is the name of the article.
* Example: {{coord|42.599494|-72.738744|display=title}}
4. Check to make sure that the coordinates point to the desired location of the article by copying and pasting the code, and then deleting “|display=title”
* Example: {{coord|42.599494|-72.738744}}
5. Click “Show Preview”. You should see a globe picture, and the coordinates following.
6. Click on the coordinates link. That should take you to a “Map sources/GeoHack” page.
7. Click on “Hybrid” from Google Maps. That should open the Google Maps page, displaying the correct coordinates of your article.
8. If the coordinates point to the correct location, press the back button in your browser twice. This should bring you back to the preview page on Wikipedia.
9. Delete the “{{coord|42.599494|-72.738744}}”. This should leave the code with “{{coord|42.599494|-72.738744|display=title}}”
10. Click “Save page”.


Tips

* The Wikipedia article will not show the link. If you want it to show the link, don't follow step 9. Google will periodically index Wikipedia, looking for these coordinates. It will upload them to Google Earth. This may take a month or two.


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* How to Benefit from Google Earth
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* How to Get Wikipedia Via RSS Feed
* How to Get Information from Wikipedia
* How to Prevent an Article from Being Deleted from Wikipedia
* How to Contribute to Wikipedia

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