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[edit] street formats

street info is really piling up. might be a good time to consider standardizing the format of the street pages themselves. i can envision an html solution, but i don't think a mediawiki template is going to work. any thoughts? from what's been accumulating so far, a solution needs to accommodate:

• cross streets
• street sides
• upstairs/downstairs locations
• location history
• optional short location description
• maybe building name

i'll ponder it while i'm really afk. Dirt 10:45, 29 Dec 2005 (PST)

It's handy to have the sections be named after streets, so that you can refer to an intersection as [[State Street#Hill Street]] and get the expected results. Ed

• I agree that the cross-streets as sections thing does it pretty well for me. The TOC automatic inclusion of sections makes street/page navigation pretty easy.
• Street sides - maybe we use a two-column (tabular) layout so that things on opposite sides of the street can actually be across from each other? Wiki tables are kind of a pain, though.
• "location description" and "building name" seem like they ought to be kind of the same thing? more than a few words, and the description needs a page of its own, linked to by place/building name. (For example, one could mention on the Maynard Street page The Collegian Building, with the training salon on the first floor - any discusison of the building would go on the Collegian Building's page.)
• Maybe all location history ("previouslYy") should be relegated to the page about the location/building? Since a lot of buildings are named after the first use or the builder ("The Pretzel Bell Building"), history's already starting in the name.

--Murph 13:03, 30 Dec 2005 (PST)

Addendum: as a test, I converted the cross-streets on Main Street to hash-pipe notation (tee hee) - instead of making the section name "Huron Street", make it "Huron Street#Main_Street|Huron Street". That way, when you click through to Huron Street, you'll be looking at the point on the Huron Street page where Main Street intersects. See what you think.

--Murph 14:26, 30 Dec 2005 (PST)

I've created a template to denote intersections. For Murph's example above you would use {{intersection|Huron Street|Main Street}} to get Huron Street at Main Street (see David Allmendinger for an example using First Street at Washington Street) --George 16:48, 30 Dec 2005 (PST)