Talk:Sullivan Square station

Track information

Track information: (comment by User:SPUI in 2006)

Note for the curious: those links no longer quite work, but the site does and the images are still there. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 21:59, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Location map

The location map in the info box is a little odd, in that the station is at the very edge of the map. Could another map be used, which shows a little more of the area surrounding Sullivan Square station? Seeing downtown Boston is useful for orientation, but it doesn't need to be at the center of location map. Reify-tech (talk) 22:06, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

I spread that map around to all station articles that were on it, from just a few downtown. I didn't find more maps that could be used that meet WP's copyright policies. More time and effort could turn such location maps up. Lentower (talk) 23:29, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

That map is just from openstreetmap. Another map could easily be made and coded. I've never been a big fan of the infobox maps, though, because the clickdown map from the coordinates is superior. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:19, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

I believe both are best, as the ways readers experience and use Wikipedia are quite varied. It's useful to many readers to have a small map visible in the article. Also I don't get a "clickdown" (popup? popdown?) map on either place where there is a coordinate link on the page (browser or setting difference?), but get redirected to a page that lists links to maps on different web sights with no map on that page. Is there any reason to put a reader through all that unless they want to use it? Lentower (talk) 22:41, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

I agree that having both alternatives is useful. The infobox map is good for quick orientation at a glance, while sending the geo-coordinates to a separate and specialized map program allows in-depth exploration, but can be a distraction from the article for a reader who doesn't need this. Also, I suspect that many Wikipedia readers have never made use of the geo-coordinates, and were baffled by what they got when they clicked on them. Reify-tech (talk) 03:51, 29 May 2014 (UTC)