Template talk:Canadian City Geographic Location (8-way)

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[edit] application

people started using this on articles on countries. It may be useful in articles on Canadian cities, but it is really just clutter elsewhere. dab (ᛏ) 14:13, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Hmm... hadn't realized that it was in use for countries. I can see a use for it, but editors may well want to modify the design. If so, PLEASE KEEP IN MIND that this is intended for use in city/municipality articles. If you're planning any major changes to adapt the template for countries, please copy the coding to a new template and work from there. That will help to prevent disruption to the pages already using it for surrounding cities. Thanks. --Ckatz^chat_spy 18:15, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

this makes sense. countries are linked to {{Geographic Location (8-way)}}, so I'll copy it there for now. I find this was done on 10 Nov by Akanemoto (talk • contribs) [1], without so much as edit summaries, and I am asking myself whether we shouldn't just silently revert. dab (ᛏ) 08:12, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] arrows and image

This is subjective, but to me the older direction arrows look much better then the larger (if vector) arrows . Could we either revert to the previous version, or convert the old small images to svg? Please! --Qyd 15:43, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Already done. (I didn't see your note, but was of like mind - the newer ones really look... odd.) What do you think about the globe - could it be replaced? --Ckatz^chat_spy 17:22, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

I think it just steals focus from the content, serves no practical purpose. Maybe it should be replaced with something less intrusive. --Qyd 22:03, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

How about this: instead of this: ? --Qyd 00:20, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

		(enter city)

Much more subtle... what do you think? --Ckatz^chat_spy 00:29, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

I like it more than with the Armillary sphere; but I don't think it's perfect, this is what it looks like with all fields:

	Strathcona County, Alberta	Lamont County	Minburn County
	Wainwright Municipal District		Leduc County
		Beaver County
	Camrose County	Flagstaff County	Wainwright Municipal District

That compass rose has a 75% tranparency, I could change that if you think it would look better some other way. --Qyd 01:50, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

What do you think - should we put it up and see what happens? --Ckatz^chat_spy 23:58, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Sure, why not :) Unless you think we should request comment on Wikipedia:WikiProject British Columbia and Wikipedia:WikiProject Alberta, as there's where the template is mosly transcluded. --Qyd 00:57, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

I took the liberty of implementing the change, let's see if it's well received... --Qyd 00:04, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Great... thanks for keeping on top of this - I forgot about it in the December rush! --Ckatz^chat_spy 00:36, 31 December 2006 (UTC)