On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 11:42:36AM +0100, Kake wrote:
On Wed 01 Aug 2012, Kake kake@earth.li wrote:
Hello OpenGuiders! Here is my new OpenGuides site: http://croydon.randomness.org.uk/ I hope you like it.
Well, that was a resounding silence.
Me like. But I almost never go into Croydon these days and so probably won't actually *use* it.
Along-the-street navigation: Because this is a completists' guide, the aim is to include every business on every street within our area of interest (something that I believe the Oxford Guide is also planning to do). This means that it makes sense to have some visual way of showing a place's neighbours. 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
This is excellent. However, I have two nits to pick.
First, the second row should have Forbidden Planet on it, for consistency with the top row. 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.
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.