Category talk:Pages with maps

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We have had Category:Media with locations for a long time. What do we need this new category for? It seems that most files with locations are now in both categories. Is this really helpful? -- Robert Weemeyer (talk) 21:03, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Auto(mis?)categorization[edit]

The page File:Wpdms 20020923b bowling green composite.jpg is in this category, though not directly (that is, the category name is not in the page source). Presumably there is some template that adds it. The problem is that the page doesn't actually have a map. Matchups (talk) 02:08, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

P.S. How do I link to an image without causing the image to display here? I can see that piping doesn't work.

@Matchups:: First, you can make a link to a picture like this: File:Wpdms 20020923b bowling green composite.jpg (see source for how I did it). Second, I think the map involved is the one you get by clicking on the WMA button2b.png icon to the left of the location, or the Openstreetmap logo.svg button on the right. --bjh21 (talk) 15:19, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Limit content to manually added maps[edit]

I want to find examples of manually added mapframes etc, but since this category currently includes tons of pages with nothing but object locations or wikidata boxes, it's useless for that purpose. Is there a chance only actual mapframes can be included in this category?--Hjart (talk) 16:48, 8 July 2018 (UTC)