Talk:San Jose, California
I don't think East Bay is a good name for this graticule. Most of what I consider to be the East Bay (Oakland, Hayward, Union City, half of Fremont) are in the San Francisco graticule. This graticule does cover the Contra Costa Valley, but that's not as East Bay as Oakland.
Considering this graticule covers more than half of the South Bay, including San Jose (largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area, 3rd largest in the state, 10th largest in the country), I think a better name would be the San Jose graticule. -- Ebrowne (talk) 20:31, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Not sure what's meant by this last anonymous edit: "Authorities have been alerted, and will arrest anyone caught on the property." considering the date 05-26 is in the past and I'm not aware that anyone tried to reach those coordinates on Monday. Maybe someone has misinterpreted the rules of this whole thing and thinks we're going to revisit past coordinates... well we could of course, but it's not likely.
I'm removing this, I think the general guideline of "no trespassing on private property" will do just fine, without retroactively threatening to arrest people.
Expedition pages
Suggestion: our expedition pages should all have a link back to the SJ page (this one.) I can't count the number of times I've been at SJ, clicked an expedition, then wanted to return. Yeah, yeah, "back button." Whatever!
I'll go through & put it on the existing pages in the next day or two. Just wanted to suggest it for the future. While I'm thinking about it, I wonder if there's a graticule-index page, where you can look up and find out where, say, 33, -116 is. Ted 07:02, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- I don't know if this meets your criteria, but the {{meetup graticule}} template has the graticule's primary page linked under the "Graticule lat lon's page" link. It looks like it might be nameable, too, if the graticule_name parameter is supplied. But something a bit more obvious might not be a bad idea :-) As for looking up where a random graticule is, I'm pretty sure all the named graticules already have redirects if you search for (eg) 33 -116, but the ungeohashed ones still won't be searchable that way :-/ --Tapin 13:45, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- Ah! Yes, graticule_name is exactly what I was suggesting. I'd clicked the lat/long link and gotten the bigger map, but not noticed the nearly-identically-named link below. So my suggestion is:
- Proposal: On our expedition pages, we should include
- Ah! Yes, graticule_name is exactly what I was suggesting. I'd clicked the lat/long link and gotten the bigger map, but not noticed the nearly-identically-named link below. So my suggestion is:
|graticule_name=San Jose, California
- In the {{meetup graticule}} template. I will go add that to existing ones, now. Ted 14:38, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
