Talk:New Edinburgh

Boundaries

The boundary description flies in the face of actual geography, describing features that run east-to-west as "western" and "eastern" borders, and features that run north-to-south as "northern" and "southern"border. I realize that the New Edinburgh community association website echoes these borders, but the page in question explicitly note that it is text "taken from Wikipedia", and can be traced back to an earlier, unsourced version of the article that already introduced the "Ottawa river to the north, Rideau river to the west, Beechwood to the south" nonsense. --Guillaume Hébert-Jodoin (talk) 18:26, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

(Note, the source in question has been moved to here). This is an itneresting case. I'd say that if they are putting it on their website, they must agree with the borders, which I'd say is good enough as a source. Of course, a neighbourhood association's definition is just one definition, as other sources could differ. Google for example includes the area northeast of Rideau Terrace as being in New Edinburgh. -- Earl Andrew - talk 14:25, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

The problem is not the border themselves ; the problem is the cardinal direction we give to those borders. The so-called "western" border runs along the southern edge of the neighborhood ; the "southern" border runs covers a small segment to the west-south-west, the eastern borders actually does cover part of the eastern edge, but most of the north as well, and the northern border runs along the western edge. In other words, the boundaries as written make absolutely no sense. --Guillaume Hébert-Jodoin (talk) 05:16, 4 August 2017 (UTC)