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While looking for a rail trail infobox I found this hiking trail infobox and with a little enhancement this infobox could be also be used for rail trails as well. Virtually all rail trails can serve as hiking trails anyway.
Addition optional rail fields could include: Grade (in percent), Surface (grass, stone dust, ballast, etc), Former right of way (railroad, canals, historical trails, etc. DCwom ( talk) 17:55, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
Many trails interconnect with others, and many are a part of a larger network. It would make sense to add optional parts to the template for Connecting trails and, for when those connections create a larger named network, Network, or perhaps Networks because you sometimes have multiple groups naming multiple networks of different extents which include the some of the same trails.
Example: The Katy Trail is part of the Great Rivers Greenway network on its eastern end. Near its western end it will connect with the new and significant Rock Island Trail. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts, and this is salient information for the infobox:
or
-- Kbh3rd talk 16:37, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
Is there anyway a map field can be incorporated into this? I write articles about trails and have been making WP:ROUTE templates for them; see Beltline Trail. I'd like to be able to nest it into the infobox like you would with {{ Infobox rail line}}. -- Natural RX 17:58, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
@ Natural RX: I see the problem. For almost all other infoboxes (e.g, {{ Infobox mountain}}), a map is a filename of an image, something like File:Pinnacle Peak Trail Map.jpg. You're making routes out of geometry. I was confused by the parameter name.
I tried messing around, but there isn't a robust way to detect whether a parameter is a media file or a route. Can we use two separate parameters? How about if we use |map=
for a image-based map of the trail (like
File:Pinnacle Peak Trail Map.jpg), and |route=
for maps like {{
Beltline Trail}} ? —
hike395 (
talk) 13:33, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
|map=File:Pinnacle Peak Trail Map.jpg
, you would get a string File:Pinnacle Peak Trail Map.jpg, not a map. So, there's no help to be gotten there. —
hike395 (
talk) 16:10, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
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While looking for a rail trail infobox I found this hiking trail infobox and with a little enhancement this infobox could be also be used for rail trails as well. Virtually all rail trails can serve as hiking trails anyway.
Addition optional rail fields could include: Grade (in percent), Surface (grass, stone dust, ballast, etc), Former right of way (railroad, canals, historical trails, etc. DCwom ( talk) 17:55, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
Many trails interconnect with others, and many are a part of a larger network. It would make sense to add optional parts to the template for Connecting trails and, for when those connections create a larger named network, Network, or perhaps Networks because you sometimes have multiple groups naming multiple networks of different extents which include the some of the same trails.
Example: The Katy Trail is part of the Great Rivers Greenway network on its eastern end. Near its western end it will connect with the new and significant Rock Island Trail. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts, and this is salient information for the infobox:
or
-- Kbh3rd talk 16:37, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
Is there anyway a map field can be incorporated into this? I write articles about trails and have been making WP:ROUTE templates for them; see Beltline Trail. I'd like to be able to nest it into the infobox like you would with {{ Infobox rail line}}. -- Natural RX 17:58, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
@ Natural RX: I see the problem. For almost all other infoboxes (e.g, {{ Infobox mountain}}), a map is a filename of an image, something like File:Pinnacle Peak Trail Map.jpg. You're making routes out of geometry. I was confused by the parameter name.
I tried messing around, but there isn't a robust way to detect whether a parameter is a media file or a route. Can we use two separate parameters? How about if we use |map=
for a image-based map of the trail (like
File:Pinnacle Peak Trail Map.jpg), and |route=
for maps like {{
Beltline Trail}} ? —
hike395 (
talk) 13:33, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
|map=File:Pinnacle Peak Trail Map.jpg
, you would get a string File:Pinnacle Peak Trail Map.jpg, not a map. So, there's no help to be gotten there. —
hike395 (
talk) 16:10, 29 November 2016 (UTC)