On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:00:45 -0000, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > >I'll own up to making that decision back in my Waterscape days. Either we >could have put it >all as "River Trent". Or we could have had separate waterway pages for "River >Trent", >"Nottingham Canal (navigable section)" (which would presuppose "Nottingham >Canal >(unnavigable section)"), "Beeston Cut", etc. etc. ad infinitum, or at least, >ad Pons Cavendish >in Shardlovium. And you'd have had to check four stoppage pages instead of one. > >Somehow it seemed a lot easier to describe it all as the River Trent. > >I guess the really correct and pedantic solution would have been to call it >the Trent >Navigation, but then, Waterscape's target audience is a bit less knowledgeable >about >waterway names than most people on this list, and "Trent Navigation" isn't a >very >meaningful term if you're planning a walking or cycling trip.
It's pretty well impossible to get right in my experience. If you put things in their historical context, non-experts get confused; if you put them in their popular place, experts complain. For example, I've had people complaining they can't find the Caldon Canal - because I have it as a branch of the T&M, and others pointing out that the Stourbridge was never part of the BCN and is a canal in its own right. I've implemented a system of "aliases" to work round this - the Caldon and Llangollen are their in their proper place in the hierarchy, but there are short cuts from the top level to them. For the route through Nottingham, I compromised and ended up much like Waterscape. In CanalplanAC it's counted as part of the Trent, but as a part called "Nottingham Canal" and another called "Beeston Canal". If ever the through route was restored, or more of the Nottingham Canal came into use, I might have to reorganise. -- On-line canal route planner: http://www.canalplan.org.uk (Waterways World site of the month, April 2001) My Reply-To address *is* valid, though likely to die soon Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
