[edit] Suburb Mapping Template
| Suburb Mapping Template |
| Tip: These should hopefully have now been added to all known Sydney suburb articles. |
| There is an Australian suburb mapping template, based on the stuff the Americans have been doing (and which will soon be added to all or most of the RamBot articles). This template only needs a longitude and a latitude, and you can see an example of it here. The template itself is Template:Mapit-AUS-suburbscale. |
| This template currently includes: |
| * Ausway (as "Street Map 1") |
| * Sensis (as "Street Map 2", kept because it lets you zoom in much further than Ausway does) - I know, two street maps, which is redundant, but they've both got good points, so they're complementary |
| * Google maps. |
| * MSN maps. |
| The Americans also include a topographic map, but I don't know if such a thing is available for Australia. If it is, or if there are any other resources that should be included in this template, please feel free to add them in. A primary advantage of using this Template for your suburb page is that if additonal resources are added, then you don't have to do or change anything, as you will now automatically have links to the correct maps or photos included when the template is updated. |
| For getting approximate longitude and latitude for most Australian suburbs, you have 3 choices, listed in order of preference: |
| * Geoscience Australia place name search. Type SUB is a suburb, LOCB is a town (many are now suburbs anyway), and LOCU is much the same, but doesn't have gazetted legal boundaries. |
| * Charles Sturt Uni using their web search form. |
| * this static PDF list. |
| Longitude and latitude figures from the above data sources are usually reasonably close (within 1/2 kilometre), although you might have to adjust them a little bit to make sure they're spot-on to the suburb's centre. Tip: Make sure that the latitude includes a minus sign, otherwise it will not work. |
[edit] Shortcuts
| From the Guide to layout |
| When placing images, be careful not to stack too many of them within the lead, or within a single section to avoid bunching up several section edit links in some browsers. Generally, if there are so many images in a section that they strip down into the next section at 1024x768 screen resolution, that probably means either that the section is too short, or that there are too many images. |
[edit] References
| Reference to City of Blacktown Social Plan |
| <ref name="Blacktown Social Plan"> {{cite web | url = http://www.blacktown.nsw.gov.au/our-city/statistics/suburb-profiles.cfm | title=The 2001 City of Blacktown Social Plan | author=WESTIR Ltd | year=2003 | accessdate=2006-08-26 | format = PDF | publisher = City of Blacktown }} </ref> |
| Reference to GNB |
| <ref> {{cite web | url = XXXX | title = XXXX | publisher = [[Geographical Names Board of New South Wales]] | accessdate = }} </ref> </ref> |
| Sample citation of company website |
| <ref> {{cite web |url = (insert url) |title = Company website |accessdate = (date accessed) }} </ref>. |
| Sample References section |
| == References == {{subst:footnotes}} |
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