The HTML markup produced by this template includes an [[Wikipedia:HCard| hCard microformat]], which makes the place-name and location [[Wikipedia:Parsing|parsable]] by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue articles across Wikipedia, or via a browser tool operated by a person, to (for example) add the subject to an address book. Within the hCard is a [[Wikipedia:Geo (microformat)|Geo microformat]], which additionally makes the [[Wikipedia:Geographic coordinate system|coordinates]] (latitude & longitude) parsable, so that they can be, say, looked up on a map, or downloaded to a [[Wikipedia:Global Positioning System|GPS]] unit. For more information about the use of [[Wikipedia:microformat|microformat]]s on Wikipedia, please see [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats|the microformat project]].
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