WikiProject:Vermont County Clickable Maps

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Vermont County Clickable Maps

Purpose

To create clickable maps for every county in Vermont

Task List

• Task List

Part A - Create the clickable Map

Step 1 - Choose a County

1. Choose a county from on Part A Tab of the Task List and put your name beside it.

Step 2 - Find the Map Image in the Wiki

1. Locate the map image you are going to make clickable by going to the Vermont Counties category and click on the county subcategory you signed up for.

2. On this page, you will see a list of files of all the town maps images at the bottom of the category. Click the very first town page in the list and go to the town map Wiki page.

Step 3 - Create a Image Map

1. With the link to the image, open a new tab on your browser so you can follow instructions on how to create an image map: Instructions

2. After you have finished making the map of the town clickable, and after you have clicked "Create Image Map" on the Map Editor Tool, copy all of the generated Wikitext code.

Step 4 - Save the Image Map Code to a Sandbox Page

1. Find a sandbox page to save the image code to the page.

2. At the end of the image map code at the bottom of the Wiki page, highlight the code: </imagemap> and delete it.

3. Copy and paste the following wikitext directly below the last of the code for the clickable map so it's the last thing on the page:

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 <noinclude></imagemap>[[Category:Image map templates]][[Category:COUNTYNAME County, Vermont]] </noinclude>

4. Replace COUNTYNAME in the category to the county your town is in. For example, Category:Addison County, Vermont]]

5. Click on Save Page.

6. Review the page to make sure the map is clickable and the category is not a red link. Fix as necessary.

Step 4 - Create a Town Clickable Map Template in the Wiki

1. Create a new template for the town in the county you picked in Step 1 by copying and pasting the following wikitext into the Wiki search field on the Main Page:

Template:VTCOUNTYTOWN

2. Replace the county and town name in the template before clicking on Enter. For example, the Addison town template would be Template:AddisonAddison

3. This will bring back a red link for the proposed new template. Click on the red link to make the page.

4. Go back to the sandbox page with the clickable map code and paste it on this new page.

5. Save the page.
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Step 5 - Add the Code from the Sandbox to the New Template to the Town Page

1. Go back to the the Category for the county and click on the town wiki page.

2. In the Contents, click on Maps and go down to the header, Maps or scroll down the page to the header, Maps.
3. Click on Edit Source next to the Maps header.

4. Directly under the Maps header, paste the following wikitext code:

[[{{VTCOUNTYTOWN}}|right]]

5. Change "VTCOUNTYTOWN" to match the name of the clickable map template you made in Step 3.

6. Add the following code to the Summary field before saving the page:

/* Maps */ Added Clickable Town Map

7. Now copy the URL for the new template page.

8. Return to the Part A tab Task List and paste the URL in Column D after the county you are working on.

9. Put the date beside the County you just completed.

8. Go to the next county and repeat the process.