Template talk:Infobox street

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Canada Streets

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Parameter Removal

I was thinking about removing the following parameters as they don't seem to be used or really needed in the infobox:

addresses (the location parameter covers this better)
client
current_tenants
sector
category
main_contractor
cost

It's not really documented what should be put into each parameter either, although I've made a start of adding some documentation. Any thoughts from anyone? -- WOSlinker (talk) 21:13, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There's now a version in the sandbox and also a testcase to show the changes, which also include some additional parameters. -- WOSlinker (talk) 17:42, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not a member of the streets project, and I don't edit articles on street articles except to remove inappropriate tags or templates from them. I do think that the contractor/cost parameters could be useful for the streets project to indicate construction costs and buildings. The highways projects wouldn't have use for that in the infobox though. Addressing would be useful to indicate address ranges and such, which is localized to a specific street in a specific city. Tenants could be useful for streets that are famous for a connection to an industry. Rodeo Drive's infobox could summarize some of the famous retailers along the street. Once again, these are situations not applicable to highway articles, which is why they don't exist ing {{infobox road}}, but they would be appropriate here. Imzadi 1979 → 20:11, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

New parameters

Regarding the recently added new parameters, I wonder if some of the news uses for this template might be better off using {{infobox road junction}} since in many cases, squares or circles are formed by the intersection of other streets. Otherwise, some of these cases appear to be parks. I'm just thinking out loud here, so I'll let others decide what may be the best course of action, but it seems like an infobox designed for streets is being using for non-street articles. Imzadi 1979 → 16:44, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

yes, we should not use this template for non-streets. Frietjes (talk) 19:30, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No. Many squares are not road junctions, and not parks. They are though, just like streets, thoroughfares: effectively, streets whose breadth is similar to their length. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:35, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Can the allocation parameter used in {{Infobox road}} be implemented in this template? Allen (Morriswa) (talk) 01:55, 28 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Merger of Paris street

the Paris street infobox has now been merged here, per the outcome of the associated merger discussion at TfD. I am not entirely satisfied with the addition of Paris-specific parameters to this template. it would be good to generalise them, if possible. articles using these parameters are tracked in Category:Pages using infobox street with Paris-specific parameters, in case we want to change the syntax later. Frietjes (talk) 21:26, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose we could add a couple of customisable fields for this purpose? I saw that you originally put arrondissement and quarter inside |location=, but that was ugly. Alakzi (talk) 21:33, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Frietjes and Izkala: Five years later, there are 229 articles in Category:Pages using infobox street with Paris-specific parameters with no clear indication in the documentation of which parameters this refers to, or how (or whether) to fix these. I have fixed the two articles that were in Category:Pages using infobox street with unknown parameters when I looked. Could someone who knows please update the template documentation and/or the category to indicate which parameters it tracks, what the purpose of the tracking is, and whether it is expected to be reduced to 0 size? Thank you. --Scott Davis ^Talk 11:54, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Scott Davis, it's just two parameters, |arrondissement= and |quarter= which have labels pointing to Arrondissements of Paris and Quarters of Paris. it would be possible to merge them into |location= or |address=, but as mentioned, there could be a better approach. templates like |infobox school= merge all this information into one field, but keep that information separate in the template (allows for vcard classes). Frietjes (talk) 13:32, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I think I'll leave it for editors more familiar with French geography, instead of just regarding it as a latent clean-up job. --Scott Davis ^Talk 02:13, 26 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request: Add "postal code type"

@Frietjes, Hike395, Jonesey95, SounderBruce, and Peaceray: Greetings and felicitations. Currently the template has a postal code field, but does not specify the type. I could copy and past that from Template:Infobox settlement, but I'd rather someone who is more familiar with the markup do it, as I'm afraid I'd break the template. Would someone please so kind? —DocWatson42 (talk) 19:00, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

okay, should work now. Frietjes (talk) 20:52, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@DocWatson42 and Frietjes: I'm curious about the use case for a street being tagged with a postal code. I can see listing a postal code for a community (city, village, etc), but I would think it is rare that a street has a postal code. I guess I wouldn't associate the two concepts together. Imzadi 1979 → 22:49, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Frietjes: Thank you. ^_^ @Imzadi1979: I asked because I was editing Avenue D (Manhattan), which already had the ZIP Code entered, but was not distinguishing it from other types of postal codes. I guess if a street is significant enough to have an article, a postal code might be significant, too, though I'm not wedded to supporting that. In any case, I support using both or neither field, not one or the other independantly. —DocWatson42 (talk) 01:23, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I guess I don't see a ZIP code (or other postal code) as a characteristic of a street. Of a community, yeah, but not of an individual street. Then again, I think a lot of parameters got added at some point to this template that aren't characteristic of a street. Imzadi 1979 → 01:34, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Multiple sections

{{Infobox road}} has an option to implement multiple sections of a road. However, I don't see any option in this template. Did I overlook something? Or can the same options be utilized here? Morriswa (Charlotte Allison) (talk) 15:00, 5 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Patron

Hallo, would it be possible to add a parameter to mention the patron of the street? Thanks, Alex2006 (talk) 06:01, 2 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

native name parameters

I have started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Infoboxes § native name parameters, you participation would be appreciated.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 22:28, 27 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As a result of the above referenced discussion, I have modified this template and fixed most of the attendant errors. Some errors I have not fixed. Articles with native name errors are listed in Category:Native name checker template errors. In a day or so, I will move on to another infobox template so if you are able to fix the errors listed in the category, now is the time because errors associated with {{infobox valley}} are the only errors listed.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 16:52, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This search returns a list of articles using {{infobox street}} in Category:Native name checker template errors.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 14:43, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Coordinates

This template provides a single coordinates parameter. Are these the coordinates of the street's midpoint or one of its termini? Could this infobox function like {{Infobox river}} and provide two parameters, one for each terminus? Ibadibam (talk) 17:16, 10 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Generally for roads, and other similar linear features, we use {{Attached KML}} or geoJSON for this exact reason. KMLs can be made fairly easily with Google Earth. - Floydian ^τ _¢ 22:27, 10 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

metro_system

What does the metro_system field do? I added the name of the bus company on a street today, but it did not appear on the page. I don't see anything about it in the documentation on this page either. Kire1975 (talk) 17:41, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

|metro_system= changes the label for the |metro= param; if it is provided, gives Nearest {{{metro_system}}} station, otherwise it just gives Nearest metro station. Primefac (talk) 07:57, 29 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]