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Queensland Globe is the interactive mapping service provided by the Queensland Government in Australia. It is the most up-to-date and authoritative source on Queensland geography. It has hundreds of different layers enabling different aspects of Queensland geography to be simultaneously displayed (e.g. boundaries of suburbs, rivers, mountain peaks). The list of available layers is in the Layers Catalogue.

Usage
This template creates a cite web citation to Queensland Globe indicating the statements made were based on information obtained from the Queensland Globe on the date stated (if the access-date is provided). As the Queensland Globe only shows current information, it is possible that a claim was correct at the time it was made but that information has subsequently changed. Unfortunately Queensland Globe does not have a means of persistently sharing a particular view (e.g. the location being examined and the combination of layers being displayed) as a URL; this feature has been requested but it is not available at this time.

Parameters

 * There are two optional named parameters:
 * 1) notes to indicate which layer(s) or other information needed to recreate the view (for use by a person)
 * 2) access-date which is the date at which the Queensland Globe was accessed (typically today's date)

Note that the Queensland Globe is most likely to be cited in articles containing place names and geo-coordinates, both of which can be searched for within the Queensland Globe. As it is typical for many layers to be simultaneously loaded in the Queensland Globe, it may be unrealistic to document these in the notes parameter.

There is no error checking of parameters.

Example
resulting in:

templatedata
{       "description": "To cite the Queensland Globe", "format": "inline", "params": { "notes": { "label": "Notes", "description": "any information that may be useful in recreating the view", "type": "string" },		"access-date": { "label": "Access date", "description": "Date of use of the Queensland Globe", "suggested": true, "type": "date" }	} }