[postgis-devel] Issue 52 in postgis: Link SRID word to Wikipediaarticle about SRID

[Obe, Regina]

Kevin,
Would you want to link directly to spatialref, wikipedia in each example
or just to another section in the docs?  I guess I like the idea of
linking to one of our internal pages (which can link to spatialref,
wikipedia etc. It is an extra hop, but I figure people will only look at
it once and say "Yah I get it"). 

There is also no way I'm going to remember to link to 
w, x, y links for each example I do and god for bid if a worthy z came
along. 

I have mixed feelings about having the links right in the example. On
the one hand I see the benefit of having it right there, but on the
other hand
I fear at a certain point it will get annoying since realistically it
would appear in many examples.  

Seems better to just train people to look at the "See Also" section when
they are not throughly satisfied.  I really like the "See Also" section
and thought that was a pretty useful layout idea you came up with. 

Thanks,
Regina

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[mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of
Kevin Neufeld
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 11:21 AM
To: PostGIS Development Discussion
Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] Issue 52 in postgis: Link SRID word to
Wikipediaarticle about SRID

What about adding a section to the Spatial_Ref_Sys table description in 
ch 4.2.1 
(http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-svn/ch04.html#id301
9787) 
listing/describing a few commonly used SRIDs.  Then, whenever we use an 
SRID in an example, we can link to it here.  (Additionally, the ST_SRID 
and ST_SetSRID sections should have a See Also link here for further 
reading).  If we want, we can have a Related Reading section in 4.2.1, 
listing links to wikipedia, spatialreference.org, and the like.

Personally, I like the idea of linking to a description of an SRID 
directly in an example.

Cheers,
Kevin



codesite-noreply at google.com wrote:
> Issue 52: Link SRID word to Wikipedia article about SRID
> http://code.google.com/p/postgis/issues/detail?id=52
>
> Comment #2 by robe.... at cityofboston.gov:
> Mateusz,
>
> On second thought I suppose we could put these links in the ST_SRID 
> section.  I think
> a lot of the pages already link to that and the ones that don't we can

> fix up.
>
> You think that would be clear enough?
>
> Thanks,
> Regina
>
>
>
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