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[edit] Infoboxes

What to type What it makes Notes
{{routeboxca2}}
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Route 82
Length: 52 mi (83 km)
Formed:
Major cities: San Jose, CA
Millbrae, CA
Direction: North-South
JUNCTION POSTMILE
101 SC 0.00
85 SC 1.00
California State Routes
Unconstructed - Deleted - Scenic
< Route 81 Route 83 >
Parameters:
  • previous_route: The route that numerically comes before the article route. (e.g. Route 81 precedes Route 82)
  • next_route: The route that numerically comes after the article route. (e.g. Route 83 follows 82)
  • previous_type: PInterstate (for 2 digit interstates), Interstate (for 3 digit interstates), Highway (for state highways), U.S. Highway (for US highways). This field specifies whether the previous route (for the browse box) .
  • next_type: Same as above except this field is for the next highway.
  • type: Same as above but this field is for the article route.
  • article_route: The article route number.
  • section: The section of the CS&HC that describes the article route. (e.g. 382 for Route 82, 561 for Route 261)
  • junction: The junctions and mile posts of the article route. See below for instructions on the table.
  • length_mi: The length of the route, in miles.
  • length_km: The length of the route, in kilometers.
  • cities : List of linked cities/towns that the route passes along, delimited using a HTML linebreak(>br>)
  • direction: The route's direction, either North-South or East-West.

The green section on the bottom is to browse the state highways. The first green box is for the previous state highway in numerical order, followed by its location in the California Streets and Highways (CS&HC) code. The last green box is for the next state highway, also followed by its location in said code. An italicized route in any green box designates the route as either entirely deleted or entirely unconstructed. Only route numbers that are or were in use can be used; numbers that were never assigned to any route should not be used (Example: After Route 330, Route 371 should follow, since no number between the two has ever been used for a route.

The center white box encompassing both columns lists the route described in the article, hereafter the "article route", followed by its location in the CS&HC code.

[edit] Junctions and Mile Posts

Each table row in this section lists an intersecting State Route, Interstate, or U.S. Route. To conserve space, do not add intersections with lesser roads such as county routes, but do mention them in the Route Description section of the article.

Junction and postmile data can be obtained from the California Log of Bridges on State Highways on the CalTrans web site. Click the district number for a PDF of structures on the highway. Note that the bridge log is sometimes outdated. For example, California State Route 126 between Interstate 5 and California State Route 14 was decommissioned in 2002, but the bridge log still shows the route as such. It's best to read the descriptions on http://www.cahighways.org/ carefully to figure out what the current routing is.

Each table row has two cells. The first cell contains a link to the article for the intersecting route, and that route's shield image. The second cell contains the milepost county abbreviation (see list below) and the postmile data. To add another row for a junction simply add text similar to this example to the "junction" parameter:

<tr><td align=right>[[California State Route 999|SR-999]] [[Image:CA-999.svg|20px]]
<td align=left>[[Sample County, California|SAM]] 9.9</tr>

The code will in turn form two columns: The right column, titled MILE POST, gives the status of the article route according to its legal definition; and the left column, titled JUNCTION, which gives the status of the junction route that is meeting the article route. The right column lists the point along the article route (in the county it currently traverses, in miles) where it meets the junction route. Generally, if the right column is white, it means that the article route physically exists (it is constructed, traversable, state-maintained and signed as a state highway) and that it meets the junction route at the given county and milepost. The left column lists the junction routes. If the left column is white, it means that the respective junction route physically meets the article route at an interchange. Also, junction routes in bold denote the start, discontinuities, and the end of the route as defined by law and may include a route, a street, a city boundary, or a point of interest.

Background colors in any of the JUNCTION or MILE POST columns' boxes designates a different status of the junction route or the article route, respectively. In this case, either the junction route or article route does not meet the other at the given milepost, for a variety of reasons. These background colors should be added in the "td" section of the tables (Example: <td align=left bgcolor="#d3d3d3">). For those planning to use this template, please refer to the Caltrans Route Log where available or use the Caltrans Bridge Log to search for the mileposts. The following is the key:

Web Colors Junction route... Article route at this milepost...
lightgrey #d3d3d3 ...is deleted. ...is deleted.
plum #dda0dd ...is unconstructed. ...is unconstructed.
lightyellow #ffffe0 ...is closed to traffic. ...is closed traffic.
navajowhite #ffdead ...does not have an interchange with the article route. ...does not have an interchange with junction route.
paleturquoise #afeeee ...shares alignment with the article route. If this route number is in bold letters, then the shared alignment belongs the junction route, making the article route discontinuous. If this route number is in "regular" letters, then the shared alignment belongs to the article route, making the junction route discontinuous. ...merges with the junction route and shares alignment.
...alights from the junction route and continues.

[edit] Official Caltrans County Abbreviations


--Geopgeop 14:31, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

In editing this infobox, I used code from the formerly used routeboxint. (No reason to note this because everything in Wikipedia is GFDL'd, but I still like to give credit.) --Geopgeop 22:20, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Routeboxca is listed under TFD

Since this template is almost line-for-line what Template:Routeboxca is, the result of whatever happens to that will undoubtedly affect this one. I suggest merging the two templates to eliminate redundancy, and also to prepare for either a content or another name change (might be looking like the U.S. Interstate routebox, or naming it routeboxstate, or both, or whatever, if certain editors get their way.) (Sigh...) --Geopgeop 15:42, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Well here's why the routeboxca exists: We had to redo the routebox for the Interstates and U.S. Routes that are only in CA. Routeboxca is the old one, Routeboxca2 is the new one. We can just fix the ones that still use the old one to use the new one and delete it. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 02:40, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
All articles that used Routeboxca are now converted to Routeboxca2. What should we do now? --Geopgeop 10:34, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
I guess we could redirect or delete the {{routeboxca}} (redirect probably better). Much thanks for your work! --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 20:44, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Redirect is done, and no problem! --Geopgeop 13:02, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Width "fixing" for greenbox

Routeboxca2 uses a table within a table for the junctions, so I put the green box in that table to fix the widths. The margins are squished in, though, but it's better than seeing "< Image Route x" far to the left as shown with California State Route 186 before. --Geopgeop 11:30, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New browse box

We need to convert them to the standard that the rest of the country uses (at the bottom). Once that's done then we can remove browse from the infobox. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 23:37, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

The rest of the country? I don't think so. I don't really care much where the browse goes - hell, I added it to my infobox as a compromise - but that's a misrepresentation. --SPUI (T - C) 23:39, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Not Washington (which will eventually get fixed). Otherwise pretty much. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 23:41, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Florida? Massachusetts? Rhode Island?
But don't you have to get CONSENSUS before doing this? I see no consensus! --SPUI (T - C) 23:44, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
WT:CASH. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 23:45, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
The only person I see supporting this is you. --SPUI (T - C) 23:48, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Noone complained. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 23:52, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
I hope people do complain after you start changing them, and you see how it is fighting groupthink. --SPUI (T - C) 23:54, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Discussions on infobox

Discussions on this infobox and related issues are being held at WT:CASH right now. --Geopgeop 11:33, 24 October 2006 (UTC)