Template:Mercury quadrangle category/doc

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This is a documentation subpage for Template:Mercury quadrangle category (see that page for the template itself).
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

[edit] Usage

This template will categorize Mercurian landforms into map quadrangles based on their geographic coordinates. It takes four parameters:

{{Mercury quadrangle category
|latitude=
|N_or_S=
|longitude=
|E_or_W=
}}

Latitude must be a positive integer, but longitude can range from 0-360 in either the east or west directions.

Since the map quadrangles on Mercury overlap by 5 degrees north-to-south, this template may in some cases add two categories.

[edit] Coding

This template uses three sub-templates to keep the code neat and organized. They are: