Talk:National Route 138 (Costa Rica)

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Locations table

@Imzadi1979: Hi, thanks again for your help and for the changes to the locations table, I'm starting to add those to the already existing articles, and will be generating new articles with the tables too. But I have some doubts:

For example, I just created the table for National Route 126 (Costa Rica) (my favorite of the country!), and trying to reconcile the regions with the km/mi distances is particularly hard on Costa Rica's windy/curvy mountainous roads, for instance like this point where the route goes back and fort between two provinces and their cantons and districts: OSM.

So, my idea was to add a regional table, but didn't know that these kind of tables were for describing the route by distance. Is it possible to use only for regions? Because, trying to describe such crisscrossing roads would be a lot a of of rows for each boundary crossing?

Also, at the moment I don't have access to those distance values, I don't know if they are publicly accessible, or even if they exist at such granularity. I'm currently using the GIS by the transportation ministry and learning while doing so, might be possible to do queries about that. --Roqz (talk) 22:24, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It's been a standard to have a table listing the junctions along a highway, and the standard format for that is established at MOS:RJL. In a pinch, editors have used Google Maps to measure the distances between junctions to fill in the missing details absent other sources. Imzadi 1979 → 22:26, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Got it, I was using the style of the table for the wrong purpose, as I used mostly for listing the districts covered by the route, any suggestions or a proper way to list/describe the administrative regions spanned by the routes? Oh, I'm using Costa Rica's geographic code (equivalent to the postal code) to sort the table too, not the route layout. Thanks! Roqz (talk) 22:45, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]