Template talk:Infobox trail

message: 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)
replies: text: Any updates on this? This seems to be the only option still. It's inappropriate to use a "hiking trail" infobox for rail trails. Rail trails are multiuse trails. They are typically wide, flat, and smooth. More suited for bicycle traffic than hiking. I propose either a general "trail" infobox, or a separate inbobox for rail trails. —Fluous (talk) 20:25, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I used the Hiking trail infobox for Farlow Gap trail, which is primarily for mountain biking. Seems to be no problem with this. The parameters are general enough to use with other trail types such as rail trails, bike trails, etc. The only work-around is that one of the sections is called "Hiking details" so the entries have to be written in a way to note that the trail is not primarily for hiking.—LithiumFlash (talk) 04:18, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rail Trail Enhancements? (And using infobox for bike trails) 

message: 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:
: Connections Rock Island Trail, Great Rivers Greenway
or
: Connections Rock Island Trail
: Networks Great Rivers Greenway, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, American Discovery Trail
--Kbh3rdtalk 16:37, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: And since it's high time I learned to make simple template modifications, I'll add these fields soon, absent strenuous objection.  Looks right in the sandbox.  --Kbh3rdtalk 17:18, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Connections & networks 

message: 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 . --Natural RX 17:58, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Nevermind, I think I figured it out. --Natural RX 18:09, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:   Your edits have produced errors, and I have undone them until they are resolved; I have screenshotted the error for you to work off of. I don't understand the syntax behind it all, my knowledge is limited, but I copied and pasted the map function from , which still currently uses what I implemented and is used on almost 5000 wiki pages. --Natural RX 19:45, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:   My edit (diff) only changed  to . That allows an article such as Devil's Path (hiking trail) to display the infobox title as Devil's Path if the infobox's "name" parameter is omitted. It should not have caused any problems which did not already exist. I noticed that your most recent revert (diff) also changed parts of the template which were there before my edit. That would be what fixed the issue. I will try take a closer look at this when I have some more time. Thanks. -- Zyxw (talk) 21:26, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I would agree it wasn't your edit, but the ones previous. I just wanted to ping you so you were aware that your edit was undone too. Thanks for looking into it. --Natural RX 21:58, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

text: Sure, if that's what's easiest for you. But I think  already achieves that without being broken up, maybe we could reach out to someone there to help? --Natural RX 14:35, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:   doesn't conform to the other infoboxes -- it only accepts routes, not image maps. In other words, if you set , you would get a string , not a map. So, there's no help to be gotten there. —hike395 (talk) 16:10, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The doc subpage shows that if you are to embed it like you would in the body of the article (), it would display. --Natural RX 16:47, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: That's non-standard. Most editors will expect to fill in a filename, not put in full wikimarkup for an image. That's how all of the other infoboxes work. After a fair amount of mucking around, I got things to work smoothly. I fixed Beltline Trail. —hike395 (talk) 09:37, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Awesome, thanks! --Natural RX 14:33, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map Field