Talk:Parking
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38K is too big??? Dmsar 02:50 24 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- That isn't the issue - the pixel width of the image is way too big. On standard res screens (800x600) the image pushes the text into a column that has 2 or 3 words per line. That ain't good. --mav 02:55 24 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Well I've already deleted my copy. IMHO people should use 1024x768 unless they're poor. Is it an easy fix for someone to make it fit? Dmsar 03:06 24 Jul 2003 (UTC)
BTW: I'm trying to really make things smaller (images). I just have a hang-up on poor image quality.. Well I'm learning. Dmsar 03:08 24 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Thanks Heph! Dmsar 03:14 24 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- No problem (although I still need to upgrade Photoshop *grin*)
Generally anything wider than 500px is, imo, too big for a Wikipedia page. Additionally, things from 300-500px are too wide to use a div float, it's best to center those. For the "larger image" links though I like to go at least 600px wide if possible. That's from trial and error, and consulting with Arpingstone, whom I consider sort of the Wikipedia image guru. :) - Hephaestos 03:19 24 Jul 2003 (UTC)
I hear those terms (parking structure, parking ramp, etc) used more or less interchangeably in the US. I don't really think they're regional - rather used to differentiate slightly different kinds of facilities and based on an individual's personal preference for a particular term. What do others think? Moncrief, 7 Mar 2004
I've never heard the term parking ramp anywhere. RickK 05:19, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)
How could you not think they're regional? In Minneapolis, everyone says "parking ramp"; in most of the country, no one's heard the term. In California, reportedly everyone says "parking structure", but I reached the age of 40 before hearing it, and then only because I raised the topic of regional variation in terms for such facilities in a forum devoted to English usage. Michael Hardy 21:57, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I too question some of these terms as regional. I live in the Western US and tend to say "parking garage" for any enclosed parking area, whether it's a surface facility or underground, and "parking structure" does not at all seem colloquial to me. I'm no expert on British vernacular either, but I really doubt that "Multi-storey car park" is common. It's quite a mouthful.--Mncuso 21:13, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure they're regional, but not so sure of the boundaries between the regions. When I first entered "parking structure" into this article, I said "California", not "western USA". I never heard the term at all until I saw it in a discussion of parking regionalisms on alt.usage.english. I've heard it only from Californians, except that I saw it one on a sign in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Michael Hardy 22:53, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Around the world, the norm for parking space width seems to be 2.0 metres along roads and 2.3 metres for spaces for side-by-side parking, as in carparks. Yet there seems to be no international standard for these nigh universal widths. How, then, did they become so prevalent? Is there an actual or a de facto standard?