Template talk:Infobox Australian place/Archive 2

message: Now that we've got it through, I've changed across some of my model towns/suburbs/LGAs firstly to see how they look and secondly so that when I create brand new ones I'll be using the new template. Couple of oddities though:
* City of Joondalup - the images are out of whack - the old Austlocalgovtarea allowed size to be specified, and this wouldn't hurt to have on all of them - although it should be strictly optional (i.e. the template should behave as the template will normally, unless a size is specified). This also applies to those on the dreaded Perth Suburb template. My suggestion would be to have an "imgsize" attribute that if filled in can limit the size, and if not leaves the script to do as it does presently
::Solution: get larger filesize images. TheJosh 12:05, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately with the Perth ones I didn't make them so that's not an option. (The image is about twice the size it needs to be on screen) Orderinchaos 12:14, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Whats the problem? looks fine on my machine. A bit tall perhaps but thats it. Try refreshing your browser, or purging the file cache. TheJosh 12:19, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

text: I have put a fix to this issue in the template code. If "Perth" is entered as city there should no longer be an issue. ◄§ĉҺɑʀκs► 16:15, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

text: That was actually my doing (about two weeks ago I was mucking around with that template knowing it was going to be deprecated anyway and actually came into something that might be an idea) -  was one of the handful I converted across. It's easy to do for WA because Dept of Local Govt here produce a series of maps that draw borders for the entire state. If one wanted it back, it would be a matter of turning on "near-nw" to "near-se" for LGAs, and putting in code so it says "LGAs near..." instead of "Suburbs near..." - I think it would be overkill to link the word LGA as suburb presently is, as the "LGA" link further up already goes to the state based one. Orderinchaos (t|c) 10:48, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I implemented it for some of rural NSW and I think it should be turned on, but I'm not into programming templates yet.--Grahamec 13:05, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I can see the line that blocks access to LGA's - it's a pity this thing isn't more like a programming language, an "or" would be very useful here. Orderinchaos (t|c) 16:04, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have now included the "neighbour box" for LGAs. The box will only show if a neighbour is specified using the near fields. ◄§ĉҺɑʀκs► 16:15, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. These are now good templates.--Grahamec 23:39, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Thanks for fix.--Grahamec 00:55, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No problems, but it does look a bit strange having the url there on its own without the logo. I'll see if there can be better placement than this. ◄§ĉҺɑʀκs► 01:17, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe the url should be bigger if there is no logo.--Grahamec 01:55, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A url along will now create a new line, where if there is a logo it will show as before. TheJosh 02:47, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Done. No need to wait. ◄§ĉҺɑʀκs► 06:20, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Post-implementation - some tinkering required

message: Are there any plans to implement a facilty where a locator dot is placed on the locator map according to latitude/longitude values? Like  (eg. Organ Pipes National Park).  Even better is  (eg. Mumbai) which as a label also. — Moondyne 14:48, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This functionality is currently implemented, but it was being debated while this template was being developed. Only about 5 paged used it in old templates. Reccomendations:
* Delete as per above. TheJosh 07:59, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Woudnt it be better to show something about the town in the image, rather than just where it is? Those images are to broad most of the time, and there is fedgov, stategov, near-X and dist#,location# for where something is. TheJosh 11:25, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Often the location of a small remote town is more significant than a photo of its main street.   And often the photo is just not available unless an editor happens to be going there. — Moondyne 02:30, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

text: I can see this function being useful.--cj | talk 03:30, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A small bit of playing shows that an infobox can show both the map and a named image at the same time. Just make sure you provide both loc-x and loc-y and you will be alright. The image used is :Image:City locator blank-MJC.png, and the width used is 230px. It would probably be better to use this rather than fixed images.
* Known Issue the superimposion will be in different places on different webbrowsers, as its done on the client side. Compare Adelaide on Firefox with what it looks like on Internet Explorer. IE shows the dot about 2 px to the right as what firefox shows it. With such a small image, a few pixels is about 100 km! --TheJosh 05:00, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Josh, in the Indian template referred to above, they use lat'd and long'd to determine the dot location.  That'd be awesome.  Also,  looks nicer than .  FYI, I compared Adelaide in IE7 and FF and couldn't see any pixel shift you refer to. — Moondyne 10:15, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thats because Adelaide is using a static image. Try Wistow, South Australia, which is a much less significant town, but had the same pixel-coords as Adelaide, being only 40km (about 0.3px) from Adel. The plan is to get some maps of just the state, and switch in the appropriate one, so that one pixel is a smaller distance than on the australia map. --TheJosh 10:30, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Duh! Yes I see the pixel shift now. Thanks. — Moondyne 17:23, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

text: This sounds great. I also agree with the use of the other dot at 8px. I've had a look at the code to place the dot by latitude and longitude and its way beyond me, not sure how they worked it out. Josh if you need any help with coding for state based maps let me know. I'm assuming it will be done by the switch parser function. ◄§ĉҺɑʀκs► 10:36, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That bits easy. I need the state maps first. I talked to the guy that did the aussie maps, just gotta wait now. --TheJosh 02:42, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Just found the ones listed here. These look good to use. ◄§ĉҺɑʀκs► 03:10, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Implemented, have fun. At some point, could someone convert the tas one to look like the others, and save as a png at a reasonable size? --TheJosh 03:29, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The dot will now center over the co-ords. The easiest way to determine a positon, is lo load the appropriate state image into an image editor, pick the location, and not the co-ords of the pixel. The dot will then appear somewhere near there. TheJosh 03:37, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

text: I'm not sure if I'm looking at the right image, but :Image:Tasmania_location_map.png (hosted at Wikimedia commons) looks right to me. -- Chuq 07:43, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A locator should not be used as a replacement for a good photo, but should rather supplement the image (both can be used). Perhaps we should move the locator somewhere else (say the bottom of the info box, down near the suburb boxes etc) --TheJosh 08:18, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a good point, and I would support this. I would also like to see the new locator maps eventually replace the ugly green ones with red highlight, like the one at Mount Gambier. There must be tens of these uploaded location maps that could be made redundant by the locator system. ◄§ĉҺɑʀκs► 08:35, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

text: I'm a bit confused, were these last two replies (by TheJosh and Scharks) targetted at my comment above?  I was just replying to "could someone convert the tas one to look like the others", by stating that the locator map for Tassie appears to be the same format/colour as the other states.  About the photo suggestion though - they are good in addition to the locator map, but IMO if it is a choice of one or the other, then a locator map should always be used in an infobox - photos can be scattered throughout the article. -- Chuq 09:43, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

text: I don't like the idea of splitting the states - it would confuse people unfamiliar with the area.  Maybe have the state locator maps at a fixed vertical size? -- Chuq 09:43, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Cant do, unless if you download the original image for each state, edit it, and then re-upload. I can do this. This has the potential to become quite a complex problem... --TheJosh 09:57, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

text: You could overly the state name over the image so its clear. You could even do zoomins and stuff if you wanted. --TheJosh 09:57, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Oppose per 'confusing' comment above. SauliH 06:32, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Oppose This wouldn't look right. ◄§ĉҺɑʀκs► 07:35, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Could work, worth the effort. --TheJosh 09:57, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Support would look tidier. SauliH 06:32, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Support Best option, however I don't see too much of an issue even using the images at their current size. I know they make the infbox a lot longer, but generally it is the width that is the main concern. ◄§ĉҺɑʀκs► 07:35, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: neutral As long as the dot is in the right place, I am all for it. Question - having had one problem between Firefox and Explorer browsers, do we know that the red dot overlay will not screw up royally in the future because of some browser quirk? Is there a possibilty that it will become a timebomb waiting to go off?SauliH 06:32, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Oppose It's great to have a way to display where a place is without having to upload an image. We would also have to make sure that there will be no future issues with its use as per SauliH, and specifically state how to use it.  ◄§ĉҺɑʀκs► 07:35, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Neutral to oppose - it's better than having thousands of little images everywhere, as long as it works. Orderinchaos 11:39, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Locator map 

message: What do people think of these solutions?
====Split the images====
:You could overly the state name over the image so its clear. You could even do zoomins and stuff if you wanted. --TheJosh 09:57, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oppose per 'confusing' comment above. SauliH 06:32, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Oppose This wouldn't look right. ◄§ĉҺɑʀκs► 07:35, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Could work, worth the effort. --TheJosh 09:57, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Support would look tidier. SauliH 06:32, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Support Best option, however I don't see too much of an issue even using the images at their current size. I know they make the infbox a lot longer, but generally it is the width that is the main concern. ◄§ĉҺɑʀκs► 07:35, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: neutral As long as the dot is in the right place, I am all for it. Question - having had one problem between Firefox and Explorer browsers, do we know that the red dot overlay will not screw up royally in the future because of some browser quirk? Is there a possibilty that it will become a timebomb waiting to go off?SauliH 06:32, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Oppose It's great to have a way to display where a place is without having to upload an image. We would also have to make sure that there will be no future issues with its use as per SauliH, and specifically state how to use it.  ◄§ĉҺɑʀκs► 07:35, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Neutral to oppose - it's better than having thousands of little images everywhere, as long as it works. Orderinchaos 11:39, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Solutions 

message: :You could overly the state name over the image so its clear. You could even do zoomins and stuff if you wanted. --TheJosh 09:57, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oppose per 'confusing' comment above. SauliH 06:32, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Oppose This wouldn't look right. ◄§ĉҺɑʀκs► 07:35, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Split the images

message: :Could work, worth the effort. --TheJosh 09:57, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Support would look tidier. SauliH 06:32, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Support Best option, however I don't see too much of an issue even using the images at their current size. I know they make the infbox a lot longer, but generally it is the width that is the main concern. ◄§ĉҺɑʀκs► 07:35, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Fixed height

message: :neutral As long as the dot is in the right place, I am all for it. Question - having had one problem between Firefox and Explorer browsers, do we know that the red dot overlay will not screw up royally in the future because of some browser quirk? Is there a possibilty that it will become a timebomb waiting to go off?SauliH 06:32, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oppose It's great to have a way to display where a place is without having to upload an image. We would also have to make sure that there will be no future issues with its use as per SauliH, and specifically state how to use it.  ◄§ĉҺɑʀκs► 07:35, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Neutral to oppose - it's better than having thousands of little images everywhere, as long as it works. Orderinchaos 11:39, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ditch loc-x/loc-y

message: Nice template.... I am attempting to implement this in Toowong, Queensland and have come accross one issue. The assumption that 'List of Brisbane Suburbs' will remain as a page is not correct. Instead I feel that the template should point to the category of 'Suburbs of Brisbane' as the list page will not be maintained long term as it is redundant. Can we fix the template to point to the suburb category, I feel this should happen for all cities, but at a mimimum for Brisbane. Rimmeraj 00:05, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If the page [[list of <city> suburbs]] does not exist, it will not display a red link, but rather a static piece of text. I will extend this functunality to check, in this order: [[list of <city> suburbs]], [[:category:suburbs of <city>]], plain text. TheJosh 07:57, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Suburbs 

message: The bot has been approved for testing, limit 50 edits, 1-3 per min. See Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TheJoshBot
Yay! TheJosh 08:01, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent. Can't wait to see it fire up. ◄§ĉҺɑʀκs► 08:23, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Its converting 'Infobox Town Au' right as we speak.
*It looks OK except it seems to be converting suburbs to towns - see for example Grange SA - perhaps minor tweaking required--Golden Wattle  talk 10:23, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Sorry i just noticed and fixed. It was loading Infobox Australian Suburb but thought it was Infobox Town AU. my bad. TheJosh 10:42, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Congrats on getting the bot approved. It will be good to see all of the LGA templates converted. Will all of the obsolete field data be put on the talk pages like before? ◄§ĉҺɑʀκs► 06:59, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes as a lot of data is being thrown out. There have been some issues, because a lot of the pages using these boxes are not well formed. (such as images in the header etc) --TheJosh 05:53, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Any examples? I'd be happy to have a look at any after-the-facts and do the research to fix them up (I've in fact been doing that in some cases anyway) Orderinchaos 09:40, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not Well Formed = data in the wrong fields. eg image of town in heading, or logo of council in url param --TheJosh 11:02, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ahh, I'm getting you. I was thinking you meant the blatant abandon of convention applied by some to, for example, the Perth Suburb template where entire blocks of text and all manner of manual formatting are present where one would expect a word or single link. Orderinchaos 11:07, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  bot approved 

message: I'd like to see this template capable of listing localities within a suburb.  For example, Port Melbourne, Victoria has the distinct localities of Beacon Cove, Fisherman's Bend and Garden City.  Likewise East St Kilda has the sub-locality of Balaclava and Toorak the locality of Hawksburn.  Many people will search by locality rather than suburb and when they do, the get redirected to the suburb.  Rather than a user scrolling all the way down the page to find this out, it would be great if you could just list them somewhere in the infobox.  --Biatch 01:41, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Localities and Sub-Localities

message: How does someone from overseas tell that the median property value quoted is in AUD and not USD ?  Does the user have to put this prefix before the value or can it be automated somehow ?  --Biatch 05:25, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done TheJosh 06:25, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Property Values and Currency 

message: The new box doesn't appear to have the facility to add the Deputy Mayor information for LGAs I think this is a useful feature which should be included as it was in the old infobox. (124.178.202.182 09:25, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oppose Where do you stop? Treasurer? etc. The infobox is an overview. Current office holders should be written into prose (or tabulated) under the council specific, sub heading of the LGA article.SauliH 16:22, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Support / Rebuttal Deputy Mayor is the place to stop. In Local Government there are no other office holders. Mayor and Deputy Mayor are the only office bearers. All other elected Councillors are equal. There is no such thing as a 'Treasurer' of a Council in the traditional parliamentary sense or any other  ministerial type appointments. Finances are handeled by paid employees (which Councillors are not) with the annual budget approved by all of Council. In the absence of the Mayor the Deputy Mayor plays an important legislated role as their replacement. 124.178.202.182 03:01, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Support as above. Deputy Mayor is actually a significant official, to an extent that no other councillor or executive within the council is apart from, of course, the Mayor. (The Treasurer, btw, would be the CEO, a non-elected official) Orderinchaos 15:18, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Oppose Kiss. --TheJosh 02:40, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deputy Mayor 

message: The template only handles one electoral district per suburb.  The suburb I live in is part of 3 state electoral and 2 federal electoral districts.  Does this mean you only list the one that most of the suburb is in ?  How can this be better represented ?  --Biatch 03:22, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Enter a comma seperated list of links, such as Mount Barker, South Australia (state) --TheJosh 03:41, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: e.g. Canning Vale, Western Australia which has two state electorates. Orderinchaos 15:20, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Many thanks.  Curious that LGA uses a different one-to-many system.  --Biatch 03:13, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple Electoral Districts ?? 

message: I notice the "suburb adjacency box" from :Template:MelbSuburbBox1 has been integrated into the "suburb" mode of this template.  The variant :Template:MelbSuburbBox1/Water has been listed under the #What are we actually replacing? section above, but this infobox doesn't have the facility for changing the colours of certain adjacency cells (for example, suburbs bordering Port Phillip have the cells marked blue in Seaholme, Victoria).  I don't think this would overcrowd or over-"busy" the table - it would probably make things clearer.  Is there a plan to integrate this functionality into the template? -- Chuq 07:20, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not that I know of. My opinion is no, as that would add another 8 fields to our template, which already has a heap anyway. Let the userbase argue it out:
* Support -- Chuq 07:20, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I wasn't specifically stating it should be done, just saying that this page states that this template supercedes :Template:MelbSuburbBox1/Water and it doesn't, without these changes.  "Port Phillip bay is not a suburb" - that is my exact reasoning - it needs to be differentiated in some way - either a different colour, italics, or left out completely.  IMO colours are more indicative of what the difference is, but I don't mind either way.  Don't forget these eight additional variables can be completely ignored if no cells are to be a different colour, and the defaults will be used. -- Chuq 09:36, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You also have to remember that, ever since the beginning we have been ditching properties. Why? Infoboxes are for an overview, and we all generally liked Infobox Town AU because of its low number of fields, and simple layout. Also, someone unfamiliar with the concept will not know what the blue means. Coodanup, Western Australia is a good example of a non-suburb neighbour, whereby Harvey Estuary is in italics. --TheJosh 10:05, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The advantage of italics is you dont need to add additional fields, users just insert them inline. --TheJosh 03:24, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: *tried something with Portsea, Victoria. Better than it was, and uses the italics. What do you all think?SauliH 04:11, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Could always do it as Port Phillip Bay Orderinchaos 02:54, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suburb adjacency box 

message: I'm dubious of the Fallingrain elevations, especially as it gives Grafton as 236 feet (when it is actually close to sea level).  The BOM link for weather averages actually gives accurate elevations in metres.--Grahamec 13:22, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Being in a hollow, the falling rain probably uses a formula of averaging of a certain radius around the geographic centre. The Average is warped higher. This is only my supposition. The BOM is probably a better source for those towns it covers. Falling rain gives info for more towns and could be a good secondary source in flat areas.SauliH 16:19, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's more complete but clearly has some errors/issues - I'd suspect in some cases they've sampled a lat and long not exactly identical to the town itself. That being said, should be OK to use as long as the figures make sense Orderinchaos 02:53, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Elevation

message: Take a look at the images to the right.  The first is one of Martyman's standard fixed locator image.  The second is using the locator dot.  IMHO the first image is a lot better for this purpose, the second has too much detail.  Opinions?  Would anyone have a problem with changing the image used for the "background" image here? -- Chuq 05:48, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I liked the coloring of the ocean in the second map, but the lines of the first. What about this version where I combined the two?SauliH 07:27, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't mind it either way - the "transparent" water looks good in the infobox (especially the "header" colour - was that a co-incidence or matched like that) but the "blue" water makes it obvious what it is :) -- Chuq 08:51, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've changed the locator image back to the Martyman one. I think it looks best without the water colouration. ◄§ĉҺɑʀκs► 11:16, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Was the old image used anywhere else?  We should make sure the locators aren't out of whack (like with the top template on the right is now!) -- Chuq 11:22, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The template was only changed to use the old image on Thursday (23rd) and no-one is meant to use this function in articles until we work out how to use it. The Martyman map had been used for the old locator_x/y fields for ages. Also note that the Australia map will only show if state is not specificed as "sa, vic, tas" etc, which will be very unlikely. ◄§ĉҺɑʀκs► 13:54, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

text: This has occurred after the infobox width was changed yesterday. I would think if the change is reverted, the locators would go back to the correct positions. ◄§ĉҺɑʀκs► 00:28, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As long as the width change isn't going to happen again in a hurry that's not a problem - I can change them to the new size. -- Chuq 04:52, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  'City' mode - locator base image 

message: I made this edit to make the font size smaller.  Please revert or let me know if it has caused any adverse effects. -- Chuq 07:26, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks fine to me - I always look at Bridgetown, Western Australia when doing anything with distances as if that works just about anything will :) Orderinchaos 15:57, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: From taking a look at the Burnie, Tasmania, Devonport, Tasmania and Hobart infoboxes - I thought the font size needed to be a tiny bit smaller.  "Devonport" and "Launceston" were wrapping onto the next line - they aren't really overly long city names are they?  Note that Ulverstone, Tasmania and Launceston, Tasmania were fine.  I've shrunk it from 95% to 90%, again hope it doesn't break anything! -- Chuq 01:38, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Towns' mode - town distances 

message: Should distances (for dist# and location#) be measured in a straight line or by road?
I believe straight line distances should be used, as they give an accurate and standardised representation across all infoboxes. Plus, they're much easier to measure (using Google Earth). Using road, the distance can be skewed such as with Spotswood, Victoria. It's 7km in a straight line, but is 10.5km by road. JohnnoShadbolt 07:34, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've been using http://www.travelmate.com.au/MapMaker/MapMaker.asp which is what is listed on the front page at Template:Infobox Australian Place#Fields.  It uses road distance, which I figure is what is expected when talking about distances between towns and cities? -- Chuq 07:48, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  How should distances be measured?