Better headings needed for state-wide listings

[Chauffeur6]

It occurred to me recently that a lot of the state-wide agency and areawide listings/pages have very generic names like "State Police", "Common/Shared", "Medevac", etc., instead of having the state name/abbreviation in the title, i.e. "NY State Police", "NY Common/Shared", "NY Area Medevac", etc.

What's the big deal with not having the state name/abbreviation, you might ask? If you're looking at the New York State page, you should be able to figure out you're looking at the NY State Police without it saying so, right?! Except, many of us live in areas where multiple states border each other. If you add a few different state police entries to your My Agencies watchlist, you'll have an entire page full of "State Police" entries with no way to differentiate between them. At least with the My Counties listing, it shows the state abbreviation next to the county name by default.

Incidentally, this would apply to the trunked system listing as well. Many of them could do with better descriptions.

Of course, it might just be easier to have the state show for the My Trunked Systems and My Agencies listings like the My Counties shows. Although I still think it's best to have a clear, accurate description of each page.

[mciupa]

Originally Posted by Chauffeur6

... many of us live in areas where multiple states border each other. If you add a few different state police entries to your My Agencies watchlist, you'll have an entire page full of "State Police" entries with no way to differentiate between them.

I think this idea has merit, and I understand where the poster is coming from since he can probably monitor a tri-state area.
Since state abbreviations are only two letters, it would not take much time to update at all.

[Chauffeur6]

I checked with a few of the local DB admins, but apparently they are unable to change these statewide headings. I guess Lindsay or someone with greater access would have to make the necessary changes. Hopefully they'll put it on the to-do list.

Here's a snapshot of my agencies list. It's clearly confusing without a state abbreviation in the description!

[blantonl]

This was added/fixed today. Thanks.

[Chauffeur6]

I don't notice anything that has changed, unless you mean you've made it so that the database admins can change these headings if they choose to? Are you going to require them to change all the headings to better reflect the state?

As always, thanks for the consideration!

[blantonl]

Yea, it might help if I actually roll out the fix It's out now... thanks.

[Chauffeur6]

That's perfect, thanks Lindsay!