User talk:JoeyBagODonuts

Coordinate scaling
Greetings, Joey. Thanks for your many contributions of adding coordinates to articles. In many cases, where the subject is as large as a bridge, the default landmark scaling (1:2000) is too tight to provide proper context and location. A scale of 1:5000 works well, or for the longer bridges such as the Harvard, 1:10000. I have made the changes in several articles, and hope you will see fit to do this modification routinely. A preview will show you the difference this change makes. Cheers, Hertz1888 (talk) 20:04, 21 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Ahh, of course, silly me. I'm still trying to get used to all the little features some templates have, especially coord!  Thanks for the heads up.   --JoeyBagODonuts (talk) 20:14, 21 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Not silly at all. We're all somewhere on the learning curve.  One other thing to mention: the available scalings seem to go in discrete steps; if one specifies an intermediate value the result gets rounded off to one of those.  Not being an expert on the template syntax, I find it useful to test all changes anyway, to ensure a reasonable outcome. This is one of the places to learn more about parameter usage, if you care to get into it in depth.  According to that page the default scaling for landmarks is 1:10000, so I'm really not sure why we've been seeing 1:2000 so much. Hertz1888 (talk) 05:19, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

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Thank you for adding coordinates to so many articles. Would you be interested in joining WikiProject Geographical coordinates? -- The Anome (talk) 16:07, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

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