On 21 Apr 2005, PhilD wrote:

purple pete wrote:

Bit of a shame if you wanted Wembley Park tho.

At a wild guess, I'd say that's on
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/travelinfo/eta/jubilee-station-view.asp?StationCode=WEP.
The station name appears as a separate bit on the end of the URL
(sorry, don't know the technical term),

I'd call that a query parameter, although i can't find a citation for that
in the standards anywhere just now.

so you can confuse people if you want to, like this:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/travelinfo/eta/jubilee-station-view.asp?StationCode=STA&StationName=Wagga%20Wagga

This is what we call a Widdecombe, after:

http://www.political.co.uk/annwiddec...on=Wagga+Wagga

See:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sit...he%2 0week%22

For many, many more.

I notice that the station codes are gratuitously incompatible with the
ones NR use for their live departure boards - STR is Stratford or
Stranraer, depending on who you ask. They're also different to LU's own
signal box codes; AIUI, those don't cover every station, though, so
perhaps not surprising.

tom

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On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:31:32 +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:

I notice that the station codes are gratuitously incompatible with the
ones NR use

and?
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On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Chris Tolley wrote:

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:31:32 +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:

I notice that the station codes are gratuitously incompatible with the
ones NR use

and?

Why?

tom

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On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:45:43 +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Chris Tolley wrote:
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:31:32 +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:
I notice that the station codes are gratuitously incompatible with the
ones NR use
and?
Why?
Because it doesn't make any sense to a systems analyst that company X
should design its computer systems on the basis of a coding scheme that
is designed by company Y and might be changed by Company Y at any time
without warning. Suppose NR starts a new scheme using 4-letter codes...

Many US companies discovered this to their cost a few years ago when
they had been using the Social Security number as the unique identifier
in their personnel systems, and the US Government changed its format.
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