On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 11:42:36AM +0100, Kake wrote:
On CGC I've done this with a set of 5 thumbnails at the bottom of each page, showing the two neighbours on either side. See e.g. http://croydon.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Maplin,_166_North_End
On Mon 13 Aug 2012, David Cantrell david@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
First, the second row should have Forbidden Planet on it, for consistency with the top row.
Agreed! This was an oversight which I will correct.
Another question is how long a gap between neighbours is permissible. See for example Tamworth Road: http://croydon.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?action=index&format=map&ca...
Should 175 North End (ex Forbidden Planet) be a neighbour of Coco Hair and Beauty? They're quite a long way apart.
But I think I'd prefer that the neighbour for something on a corner be the road itself, and not what's the other side of the road.
Hm, maybe. I would like to get the indication of the cross-road in somewhere, but I don't think it should be the actual _neighbour_, as in having a little square thumbnail like the others. For one thing, not all cross-roads have their own locale, and hence there would be nothing to link to. And for another, it would remove the easy back-and-forth - at the moment, I can click on Paddy Power, read the page, then click on Maplin again to go back. If it had the Station Road page in between, there isn't an obvious place on that page (http://croydon.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Locale_Station_Road) to put the thumbnail navigation, and it isn't obvious that it really makes sense to have North End navigation on that page (though perhaps it does make sense?)
Perhaps there could be a way to do a sort of vertically-oriented link or something between the squares (vertically-oriented so it doesn't take loads of horizontal space, link instead of thumbnail to make it visually distinctive) - not sure this is possible or usable though (can you change text direction in CSS? I know you can rotate divs).
Second, have you thought about how to handle vertical neighbours? When there's only two floors, they'll normally have two separate entrances onto the street, so you can just list them in order of their entrances, but when there are three floors under separate occupation (there are lots of these - shop on the ground floor, accountant on the first, lawyer on the second, for example) then all the upper floors normally share one entrance from the street. You occasionally even get multiple businesses sharing one entrance on the ground floor.
I'm not sure how best to do this at the moment. As you say, when there are separate entrances it's easy. In the more extreme cases of lots of businesses sharing the same entrance I've just put them all on one page, e.g.: http://croydon.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?17-21_George_Street
but it's not obvious when to switch from one model (one page per business) to the other (grouping businesses).
Note that vertical neighbours are also a problem on 2-D maps! I've got around this by just displacing the pointers slightly, e.g. see the Whitgift Centre: http://croydon.randomness.org.uk/edit/wiki.cgi?action=index;format=map;loc=w... Amai and Boots, for example, are one on top of the other.
Kake