Module talk:Location map/data/Canada British Columbia

there need to be two of these

This template and the map on it are showing up on all kinds of articles where regional district boundaries have no relevance at all. Another map, sans the r.d. boundaries, exists at File:Canada British Columbia (no subdivisions) location map.svg....I don't know enough about infobox/map templates to know how to do this, but it's imperative that the artificial wiki-usage subdividing BC by regional districts be brought to a screeching halt and reversed as much as possible. The only other people who publish maps using RDs as boundaries are the regional districts themselves and the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and that's it. Nobody in BC perceives the provincial map dividing this way; the most useful and prevalent maps are those showing the road network, because that's how places/towns interconnect and (in the case of mountains, lakes, etc) are made accessible. R.D. boundaries are made up of historical region-boundaries in many cases, e.g. Okanagan-Similkameen includes virtually all of the Similkameen Country, Columbia-Shuswap is the Columbia Valley and the Big Bend (both "Columbia Country", plus t he Shuswap Country. THIS map should ONLY be used on town/city articles and on RD articles; it has NO RELEVANCE WHATSOEVER to provincial parks, Indian Reserves, lakes, mountains, rivers and damn near anything else. I'm gonna try and create another template copying/altering this one, called Template:Location map Canada British Columbia (no subdivisions) but ultimately it's the more important and shoudl be more widely used one; I'm gathering from the template maze that got me here I have to make ANOTHER alteration to yet another template to get this to work....that's an example of "making more work by making a mistake", the mistake in this case the long-ago error by early Wikipedians of placing more importance on regional districs than they actually do have or should have....Skookum1 (talk) 00:13, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

En:WP's Template:Location map gives you the possibility to change the map individually, it's the item AlternativeMap. Or if nobody protests you just change the map here in the template for every usage. I thought en:WP discussed this last August. NNW (talk) 09:10, 15 March 2010 (UTC)