Template talk:Geolinks-AUS-suburbscale

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Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Sydney/Suburbs#Suburb Mapping Template

See also: Template:Geolinks-US-streetscale (this is the US version, on which this is based)


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[edit] Testing (Bundeena, New South Wales)

Coordinates: -33.8915° 151.1382°

[edit] Testing 2 (Botany, New South Wales)

Coordinates: -33.8915° 151.1382°

[edit] End test

[edit] Broken display

This template is presently causing quite bizarre coordinates in th etitle area. An example is on the Template page as "Coordinates: -33.8915° N 151.1382° E". Australian coordinates should be written with a positive number of degrees south, not negative degrees north! I don't know how to fix it though. --Scott Davis Talk 09:54, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

I will try to fix it. To select one of the Geographic_coordinate_conversion#Ways_of_writing_coordinates, it should probably just read "Coordinates: -33.8915, 151.1382", otherwise we'd need to improve the input in the template. -- User:Docu

Thankyou. I don't know if complex wiki language is good enough to remove the sign, then pass the rest to the coor d template with an S. Otherwise, we would need a bot to change the input string to lose the sign at input if we wanted to keep the S. Personally, I think two unadorned real numbers is a bit too cryptic. You can probably keep the degree sign "Coordinates: -33.8915° 151.1382°" which helps a bit. I don't recall looking before, but had presumed the point of the AUS template was to get the hemispheres right. --Scott Davis Talk 22:55, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

All the mapping & directory web sites use the -33.8915, 151.1382 notation (i.e. negative degrees north), so the minus sign in the template usage is probably good to keep (unless someone wants to write a bot to convert all usage, and then do stuff in the template to convert it back to the format that it was originally in, which I can't honestly see the point of). However for the Coordinates thing at the top of the page, any reasonable format is fine IMHO (e.g. "Coordinates: -33.8915° 151.1382°" is fine), or it could be removed (I personally don't have any preference either way). -- All the best, Nickj (t) 03:31, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
OK, I've made this change now, please feel free to revert if it stuffs things up or you think it should be done differently. -- All the best, Nickj (t) 03:41, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Thankyou. I wasn't game to try to change it, so alerted the two who looked like they understood when I noticed the problem. SInce you both agree, it must be right :-) You have certainly solved the wrongness problem. I'm not sure if it creates a readability problem or not. --Scott Davis Talk 05:11, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing it. The new format works! -- User:Docu

[edit] Google street maps

Can someone in the know please update this so it includes Google's excellent new street mapping for Australia? Thanks, ҉ Randwicked ҉ 12:46, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Just noticed that Google had added it, came here to do that, and saw your message - Good to see someone is on the ball, even if I'm not ;-) Google as street directory should be there now - I've listed it first because it seems the nicest. -- All the best, Nickj (t) 06:54, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 21 June tidy up

I've done a bit of a consolodation of the sources - before this Google Maps appears twice and Wikimapia had its own section. --Scotthatton 14:40, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Good to consolidate Wikimapia in with the rest; The only reason for listing Google Maps twice was once for the sat images, and once as a street directory (can toggle between these, but if you know you want the directory or the map, could potentially be quicker to go right to it). -- All the best, Nickj (t) 08:01, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
I've removed GlobalGuide as a street directory, as it doesn't seem to add much value (seems to be wrapper around the google maps street directory + lots of advertising). -- All the best, Nickj (t) 08:09, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Usage" back to front?

Is it just me or are longitude and latitude back to front in the instructions on this template page? Plus whenever I use this template I have to reverse the coords, which makes me suspect this template is actually back to front... anyone else? pfctdayelise (translate?) 15:55, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

The order of named parameters to templates does not matter. The example was probably made by a mathematician (x before y) not a geographer (latitude before longitude). The beauty of templates is that whichever way you think, the output is "right". --Scott Davis Talk 23:25, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
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