Template talk:Graticule

The bottom graticule neighbourhood being automatically a link means that I can't seem to use alternate text for the link. Could you make the names plain text (or otherwise tell me how to use alternate link text), please? -- Marz 00:49, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Hmm. What did you need that for? I'd prefer to not have to make users link neighboring graticules manually - ideally, there's some way to make the Right Thing happen on its own. Duskwolf 01:07, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

The graticules surrounding Bristol have very long article names. I'd like to shorten them - for aesthetic reasons. -- Marz 01:09, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Ideally, article names should specify a single key city, not a set of cities - Birmingham East / Leicester / Coventry, United Kingdom should probably be renamed to Birmingham East, United Kingdom, for example. It's still pretty long, but much more manageable. Duskwolf 02:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

I would also wonder how to do this. For example, I'm in the Lincoln, NE graticule. Neighboring me to the north and northeast are the two graticules for Omaha, which is a split city with a single page. Ideally, I'd like it to link to the Omaha page with each, but have West/East in parentheses next to the link within the table. Can this be done? Spike 06:24, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Split cities are a weird issue - they violate the "one graticule = one page" rule. (Note in particular that the Omaha graticule page will get spectacularly broken when something shows up to its north.) I'd be inclined to split the page into Omaha East, Nebraska and Omaha West, Nebraska or similar - Omaha is the problem here, not Lincoln. Duskwolf 08:19, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Is there a way to maybe edit this template (or perhaps make alternate ones) that can be used for the 'split cities' (see again the Pittsburg, PA's page) maybe a EastWestGraticule (that is 4 wide and 3 high) and a NorthSouthGraticule (that is 3 wide and 4 high) and a 2x2Graticule (that is 4 wide and 4 high)? Can you picture what I mean? --KDinCT 12:38, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

I think it would look cleaner if the surrounds are above the map (i.e. so users don't have to scroll down to see the neighbors). --KDinCT 02:02, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

That's an excellent idea. So excellent, in fact, that I just implemented it. Duskwolf 02:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Beautiful! --KDinCT 02:20, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

It'd probably look better if you left-align the left column entries, and right-align the right ones. And if people would use the state name abbreviations instead of the full names it wouldn't look so squashed. We'd only need to set up a few redirects then. Tyler 02:33, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Done. And some site-wide talk about naming conventions wouldn't be unwise - standardize on what abbreviations should be used and whatnot. Duskwolf 03:32, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

This may be a stretch but is there a way to change the "-" put in the cells that don't have a defined neighbor to output as the coordinate (ex. see how they are manually doing this on Pittsburg, PA's page right now.) I think that it looks very slick and the graticule 'knows' the lat and long of the current page from the map line, right? So it should be as simple as adding or subtracting 1 and outputting the result into the cells without data. Just an idea. --KDinCT 12:35, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Scrollbars

I'm getting scroll bars both left-right and up-down on the map for every graticule page that I go to. I'm pretty sure that it's not my monitor, because I've tried the monitor both horizontally and vertically - is this something that can be fixed? AshleyMorton 12:03, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

The map looks fine in Firefox, but in IE 7.0 and Opera 9.27 there are scrollbars on the iframe that allow you to scroll way out into whitespace. This can be solved for both without breaking firefox by adding scrolling="no" to the iframe tag generated by the map tag, but I don't know how to edit the effect of the map tag. 131.111.202.214 13:31, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Broken for -0 long

The map tag does not accept -0 for the longitude. Either I'm doing something wrong or it's impossible to make on display a map for any graticule immediately West of the Greenwich Meridian. --138.250.25.32 12:40, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Wrong graticule shown

The Graticule on Curitiba, Brazil is being shown on the wrong place. The calculator shows it in the right place for lat=-26,long=-50, but on the wiki it is being shown to the southwest of the right graticule (using the same lat/long values used in the calculator URL). --Eduardo Habkost 16:24, 22 May 2008 (UTC)