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:::::Thanks for the links; those look like what I was looking for. [[User:Mike Christie|Mike Christie]] ([[User_talk:Mike Christie|talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Mike_Christie|contribs]] - [[User:Mike Christie/Reference library|library]]) 09:25, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
::::::{{ping|Mike Christie}} {{tq|those look like what I was looking for.}} That seems unlikely, since they can't be used in image captions. They are for use in the file description like the example I gave above. {{tq|that shouldn't prevent useful reader functionality}} Said functionality is in the file description, provided editors don't go out of their way to prevent readers from learning to use it. Your solution would tend to undermine the intent of the file description, both for coordinates and for all of the other useful information there. Curious and resourceful users of any software poke around for things that might be useful to them, rather than assuming that everything that might be of use is placed in front of them with no effort on their parts. Those users will always be more productive, and that's just a fact of life. Again, it doesn't serve the lazy users to keep them lazy, and in my opinion those users are becoming less common with each new generation. This is from a person who had a long career working with the human-computer interface. You're free to disagree with my philosophy on this, but I wanted to be sure you understand it. The file description is intended to be used. [[Special:Contributions/68.97.42.64|68.97.42.64]] ([[User talk:68.97.42.64|talk]]) 20:11, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
:::::::Well, there are two people looking for an answer here; my friend, who does want to put locations in captions, and for whom this is probably not the answer they were hoping for, and me. I think my friend's wish to display locations in captions is a reasonable opinion, though I don't find it useful myself, but I understand your point about storing the data in only one ___location and I think that if locations are ever to be displayed in captions it would be best to have it extracted from the underlying file. That's why I said Redrose64's answer was what I was looking for. [[User:Mike Christie|Mike Christie]] ([[User_talk:Mike Christie|talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Mike_Christie|contribs]] - [[User:Mike Christie/Reference library|library]]) 20:17, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
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