diff --git a/app/src/main/java/fr/free/nrw/commons/Media.java b/app/src/main/java/fr/free/nrw/commons/Media.java
index 34cfa255c..f8f90896a 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/fr/free/nrw/commons/Media.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/fr/free/nrw/commons/Media.java
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ public class Media implements Parcelable {
     protected int width;
     protected int height;
     protected String license;
-    protected String coordinates;
+    private String coordinates;
     protected String creator;
     protected ArrayList<String> categories; // as loaded at runtime?
     protected Map<String, String> descriptions; // multilingual descriptions as loaded
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/fr/free/nrw/commons/MediaDataExtractor.java b/app/src/main/java/fr/free/nrw/commons/MediaDataExtractor.java
index aa39ae0e0..cb22d9b3c 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/fr/free/nrw/commons/MediaDataExtractor.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/fr/free/nrw/commons/MediaDataExtractor.java
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ public class MediaDataExtractor {
      *
      * @param parentNode The node of the coordinates template.
      * @return Pretty formatted coordinates.
-     * @throws IOException
+     * @throws IOException Parsing failed.
      */
     private String getCoordinates(Node parentNode) throws IOException {
         NodeList childNodes = parentNode.getChildNodes();