Talk:Pittsburgh Light Rail
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[edit] Google Maps
Google maps has just added a bunch of info about T stations. They are displayed on the map and if you click on the station it gives you a schedule of departures (pf unverified quality).
Here is a my map I have created of some of the stations.
In order to integrate the Wiki pages about stations with a Google Map (or Mapplet), I suggest that a Wiki page be created that contains a table containing all the information about all the stations. I have no idea if Wiki pages about trains & maps do anything like this for other regions.
That table can then be used to automagically (via some unknown software) generate Wiki pages for the individual stations AND a Google Map of all the stations, with appropriate cross links between the two.
I'm now going to edit the Pittsburgh Light Rail page to add a Google Maps section. If somebody doesn't like it, it can always be taken out.
- I'm removing it, since we wouldn't add information like "Rand McNally shows Amtrak stations on their maps". --NE2 03:23, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
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- umm, Google Maps provides station clickable info about current departures which Rand McNally doesn't. Also each entry for an individual station links to maps for that station so why should there not be a top-level link to a map of all stations? It seems that you want to be neutral and not favor Google. So be it. Maybe there is a neutral way to include various map services that mark all stations and provide current info, but at the moment Google is the only one that can deliver. I'll defer to a general consensus, however I think it is good to promote a new capability, even in imperfect form, rather that wait for some ultimate solution that is neutral. I created my Google map of T stations when I wanted to take the T (which I rarely do) and found the Wiki info more helpful on the current rigamarole needed to get to Mt. Lebanon than the official PAT pages. And yes, I added the main page link as some sort of a challenge. I.e. it is straightforward to create by hand a Google Map that shows stations. However to cross link that map with Wiki pages on stations takes more effort which should be automated. I favor putting a link to an incomplete imperfect Google map on the main page as a challenge for someone to construct the perfect complete one and/or show how to do it in other mapping services. However from your expressed opinion it seems like you would delete any external map of all stations.
[edit] shortest
reportedly the shortest subway? shorter ones have existed in the past, but what about ones in operation today? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 151.201.18.104 (talk) 13:52, 26 March 2007 (UTC).
