Template talk:Motorway service station succession box

What do "previous" and "next" mean?

Clearly the order isn't chronological – otherwise Watford Gap services for one wouldn't have a "previous". But you can go along a motorway in either of two directions. As such, I've just been thinking they ought to be labelled "next northwards" and "next southwards" (or eastwards and westwards or whatever).

But then I realised one possible interpretation: it goes in the direction of the motorway's junction numbers. Maybe this is the intention. Whatever it is, it should be clarified. Or maybe there isn't a convention – IWC, should we try and start one?

But whether we have a sign convention or not, a possibility would be to add a "label" parameter to S-before and S-after (I'm surprised it isn't there already), and "before-label" and "after-label" parameters here to interface them. Does anyone else have thoughts on this? — Smjg (talk) 23:37, 25 May 2012 (UTC)


 * You'll see I've now taken the liberty to implement this functionality. — Smjg (talk) 18:04, 1 January 2015 (UTC)