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Contents 1 To do 2 Coordinates 3 Urban sprawl in Chennai 4 chennai area locator maps 5 Editing Transport section 6 list of corporation wards 7 Infobox image or map? [edit] To do A section on the religions of the area would be helpful. We could use some satellite photos or aerial photos of the city. Digitalglobe has a few low-res photos showing a large area, but Spaceimaging has better photos, like these. If you see any decent photos like these, please list them here. Chennai network -- Sundar 07:24, Mar 17, 2005 (UTC) We need photos! Most of the photos online aren't high quality, or they are copyrighted. People in Chennai, if possible please try to take some of these photos and upload them yourselves - that will make it completely free of copyright issues. As of now, I've identified the following photo subjects. Please add others you feel necessary. -- Brhaspati 10:33, 2005 Jan 14 (UTC) One of (MA Chidambaram Stadium, Nehru Stadium). One of Chennai port/container area floodlit at night. This is best taken from the top of the Royapuram bridge, coming south towards Parry's. One showing the Cooum river, or the Buckingham Canal north of Central. This photo should convey the extent of pollution. :see More Pictures A Section on the main attractions of chennai - Sunil, 16:50 MST, 29 Nov 2006

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[edit] Coordinates

The coordinates at the top of the article overlap another set of coordinates. Can someone correct this? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 155.69.5.234 (talk) 05:04, 12 December 2006 (UTC).

The {{Geolinks-cityscale}} template conflicts with Infobox template. I have commented out the Geolinks template so that coordinates don't overlap. This needs to be fixed. ɤіɡʍаɦɤʘʟʟ 17:42, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Urban sprawl in Chennai

I am not happy about the contents written in Demographics section regarding the urban sprawl. Chennai clearly does not have urban sprawl like you see in American/European cities. Look at the population density of LA/Chicago and compare them with Chennai.

City of Chennai is among the densest cities in the world (most of them are Asian cities) and is as dense as any other metro in India. Also, Chennai metropolitan region has very little urban sprawl: 70% of metropolitan population live with the city limits. And whatever population that is outside the city boundaries live along the suburban rail network (Egmore-Tambaram, Central-Avadi and Central-Gummidipoondi). From energy consumption perspective, Chennai is a well planned city compared to most American urban regions (except NYC) that are essentially sub-urban.

[edit] chennai area locator maps

Just created location map for chennai. Some fine tuning necessary here on the top left and bottom right coordinates of the map. Its time we make a Chennai infobox and add it to all chennai places. The map is not complete and i just put it together using google maps (god bless them), i will modify it later over the next weekend. Right now pls look into implementing it in infoboxes -- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 20:25, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Infobox created, Ive added it to a few pages as a test to check positioning, see Mylapore for example. Template can be edited here [1]. We need to decide what fields need to be included-- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 15:14, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Editing Transport section

User:Butter1 has repated re-inserted the following information only for other editors to remove it with various justifications. Rather than edit warring in the article, please discussion your positions for or against the inclusion of this material below. Please wait until editors reach a consensus before re-inserting the information (or permanantly leaving it out). Thanks.

"Auto rickshaws commonly called as Auto. New auto rickshaw fares are fixed by the state government of Tamilnadu in the month January 2007 and the auto drivers should follow only as per that government order. As per that order for the first 2km the charge is Rs.14 and Rs.6 from next kilometre onwards. If any problems arises passengers can lodge complaints against autorickshaw drivers by calling phone numbers of Chennai Police[[2]]"

I am removing the ref links for the auto fares. It does not have any context in the article. ɤіɡʍаɦɤʘʟʟ 00:13, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] list of corporation wards

I have made the List of Chennai Corporation wards page. please try to improve upon it. Also Template:Infobox Chennai place is almost finished, please give your comments -- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 09:26, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox image or map?

We have to decide how to go ahead with the infobox. We can either use the image or use the map but not both. I personally prefer the map, but let us discuss this. I will comment out the image until we decide on this. ɤіɡʍаɦɤʘʟʟ 00:51, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Its simple, the locator map for landmarks, structures (Chennai Central) etc. and the infobox for places (Mylapore) -- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 16:17, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Most cities have an image that defines the city (landmark or skyline) in the infobox and a map below it. Since this is an encyclopedia, we must conform to the standards set by wikipedia in its city infobox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_City). Nikkul 01:13, 7 March 2007 (UTC)