This is a route-map template for a UK waterway.
- For a key to symbols, see {{waterways legend}}.
- For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
- For pictograms used, see Commons:BSicon/Catalogue.
Note: Per consensus and convention, most route-map templates are used in a single article in order to separate their complex and fragile syntax from normal article wikitext. See these discussions [1],[2] for more information.
Suitable instructions belong here – please add to {{UK-waterway-routemap}}.
For finding bridge numbers, canalplan.org.uk may be useful.
Usage
This template should be added to all Route Diagram Templates of United Kingdom waterways. It adds the following text (without the surrounding box) to an RDT:
It will automatically include the diagram in Category:Waterway routemap templates.
Adding an optional parameter will include the waterway name as a link, for example,
{{UK-waterway-routemap|Fossdyke Navigation}}
will change the first line of the template to:
The optional named parameter |type= will change “a UK waterway” to “a UK alternate text”. For example,
{{UK-waterway-routemap|type=[[Aqueduct (bridge)|aqueduct]]}}
will change the first line of the template to:
The optional named parameter |the=anything will omit the word ‘the’ before the linked page. For example,
{{UK-waterway-routemap|the=x|King's Sedgemoor Drain|type=artificial drainage channel}}
will change the first line of the template to:
The optional named parameter |place= will change “a UK waterway” to “a alternate text waterway”. For example,
{{UK-waterway-routemap|place=[[Staffordshire]]}}
will change the first line of the template to:
and,
{{UK-waterway-routemap|Llangollen Canal|place=Welsh}}
will change the first line of the template to:
Setting the optional named parameter to |cat=no will suppress inclusion in Category:United Kingdom waterway routemap templates, whereas |cat=C or Cornish or Cornwall will change the category to Category:Cornish rivers routemap templates.
Note that this parameter is not case sensitive: i.e. |cat=NO produces the same result as |cat=no.
See also
- General
- {{Railway-routemap}}
- {{Bus-routemap}}
- {{Road-routemap}}
- {{Trail-routemap}}
- {{Waterway-routemap}}
- Specific
- {{UK-railway-routemap}} United Kingdom
- {{UK-waterway-routemap}} United Kingdom rivers and canals
- {{US-railway-routemap}} United States
- {{NYCS-routemap}} New York City Subway