Template talk:Show

Speedy template approval request
Hello everyone. For those that have watched my contributions closely these days, you'd have noticed me working on maps on itineraries. But for some time, if the lines were added, those markers wouldn't show up, until LPfi and I figured it out on why that was happening. But if anything were to happen in the future with markers on dynamic maps, we'd have togo to each and every single itinerary where the |show= parameter is used. So to simplify things, I created show and that basically unifies the use of having markers show up. But because this needs to be used on all itineraries where the marker should show up, I'd like this speedily approved.

Pages that currently use show
 * Oxley Highway
 * Quebec Route 389
 * E8 through Finland and Norway
 * Gippsland Plains Rail Trail

--SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 12:17, 15 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Why not, but the template name should be "AllListingTypes" or something similar, to have a semantically meaningful name... Also, it's probably about time to add "show" parameter doc into mapframe, it bothers me every 1/2year I need to use it... :-D PS: I (still) think rather than request for approval, RFC would be enough for the templates... -- andree 13:44, 16 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Support — route lines on maps without markers aren't very useful. Ground Zero (talk) 13:50, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
 * I should mention that I did do a little test yesterday (I'm writing this at 00:01 AEST) on maplayers, and that issue had largely fixed most of the map issue. However, it seems that that still hasn't solved the issues with Turku riverside walk, although that has more .json elements which I'm not too familiar with. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 14:01, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

I hereby withdraw this template request as I've handled the issue with markers not popping up. See E8 through Finland and Norway as an example (which I've just done). SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 13:34, 17 September 2021 (UTC)


 * In that example article the template is still used. How should the issue be handled? Is there proper documentation for the "show" parameter somewhere? It isn't even mentioned in the list of optional parameters in the template documentation, nor included in the parameter table. –LPfi (talk) 08:40, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
 * I worked it out through maplayers which largely resolved the issue. But I do have to say that the documentation for mapframe is confusing. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 08:48, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
 * See Special:Diff/4294242 which largely resolved that issue. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 10:41, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
 * OK. Not too robust a solution, and not well documented, but yes, that seems the way to do it. I'd include only markers and routes that are commonly used. Those introduced in a single article should be handled there, and if that requires it being mentioned in many places, we need better mechanisms. –LPfi (talk) 14:14, 21 September 2021 (UTC)