Template:Motorsport venue/doc

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Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Cut-and-paste pro forma 2 Distance 3 Coordinates 4 Microformat

[edit] Introduction

Motorsport venue infobox, suitable for use with pretty much all types of venue including road courses, ovals, rovals, drag strips, and dirt tracks.

Only the Name and Location fields are required. All other fields are optional and can be omitted as appropriate.

[edit] Cut-and-paste pro forma

{{Motorsport venue
|Name             =
|Nicknames        =
|Time             =
|Location         =
|Coordinates      =
|Image            =
|Image_caption    =
|Capacity         =
|Owner            =
|Operator         =
|Broke_ground     =
|Opened           =
|Closed           =
|Construction_cost=
|Architect        =
|Former_names     =
|Events           =
|Layout1          =
|Surface          =
|Length_km        =
|Length_mi        =
|Turns            =
|Banking          =
|Record_time      =
|Record_driver    =
|Record_team      =
|Record_year      =
|Record_class     =
|Layout2          =
|Surface2         =
|Length_km2       =
|Length_mi2       =
|Turns2           =
|Banking2         =
|Record_time2     =
|Record_driver2   =
|Record_team2     =
|Record_year2     =
|Record_class2    =
|Layout3          =
|Surface3         =
|Length_km3       =
|Length_mi3       =
|Turns3           =
|Banking3         =
|Record_time3     =
|Record_driver3   =
|Record_team3     =
|Record_year3     =
|Record_class3    =
|Layout4          =
|Surface4         =
|Length_km4       =
|Length_mi4       =
|Turns4           =
|Banking4         =
|Record_time4     =
|Record_driver4   =
|Record_team4     =
|Record_year4     =
|Record_class4    =
|Layout5          =
|Surface5         =
|Length_km5       =
|Length_mi5       =
|Turns5           =
|Banking5         =
|Record_time5     =
|Record_driver5   =
|Record_team5     =
|Record_year5     =
|Record_class5    =
|Layout6          =
|Surface6         =
|Length_km6       =
|Length_mi6       =
|Turns6           =
|Banking6         =
|Record_time6     =
|Record_driver6   =
|Record_team6     =
|Record_year6     =
|Record_class6    =
}}

[edit] Distance

Note that distance should be given in both Kilometres and Miles in order to display correctly. By default, Kilometres will display first followed by Miles in brackets. In order to swap the two add the line

| Miles_first      = True 

anywhere in the infobox code.

[edit] Coordinates

For coordinates, use {{coord}} with display=inline,title. Please do not be overly precise.

[edit] Microformat

The HTML mark up produced by this template includes an hCard microformat, which makes the place-name and location parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue article 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 Geo microformat, which additionally makes the coordinates (latitude & longitude) parsable, so that they can be, say, looked up on a map, or downloaded to a GPS unit. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please see the microformat project.

hCard uses HTML classes including:

Geo is produced by calling {{coord}}, and uses HTML classes:

Please do not rename or remove these classes.

When giving coordinates, please don't be overly precise.