sketch wrote:Has anyone attempted to add the templates? I'd love to get shields into the road naming by state chart.

sketch wrote:Because then I don't have to make or find and resize a bunch of images?

AlanOfTheBerg wrote:I was/am frustrated that the Waze wiki templates for highway shields isn't working reliably for US or state highways. What I've found is that the simple template is referring to a static location for thumbnails and the files have recently either been purged or reorganized.

The wikipedia pages for highways and freeways use a series of what look to be very complex templates. One of the main ones appears to be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Jct/abbrev/USA.

I cannot find a way to reference an external template, so if that's possible, that would mostly solve my problem if someone could point out how to do that.

If not possible, how can we get a reliable way to access, via a template, the various images of interstate and highway shields found on wikipedia?

{{#switch:{{{type|}}}
|I|Interstate|Future={{#ifeq:{{{type}}}|Future|Future }}{{#switch:{{{state|}}}
 |HI=H-{{{route}}}
 |PR=PRI-{{{route}}}
 |#default=I-{{{route}}}
 }}
|I-Spur=I-{{{route}}} Spur
|US|US-Alt|US-Bus|US-Byp|US-Conn|US-Scenic|US-Spur|US-Truck|US 1926|US 1926-Alt|US 1926-Bus|US 1926-Byp|US 1926-Conn|US 1926-Scenic|US 1926-Spur|US 1926-Truck|US 1948|US 1948-Alt|US 1948-Bus|US 1948-Byp|US 1948-Conn|US 1948-Scenic|US 1948-Spur|US 1948-Truck|US 1961|US 1961-Alt|US 1961-Bus|US 1961-Byp|US 1961-Conn|US 1961-Scenic|US 1961-Spur|US 1961-Truck={{#switch:{{{state|}}}
 |MI|VT={{Jct/abbrev/USA/US|state={{{state|}}}|type={{{type|}}}}}
 |#default=
 }}{{#switch:{{{state|}}}
 |AL|ID|KS|NE|OK|TN|UT=US-{{{route}}}
 |AR=U.S. {{{route}}}
 |#default=US {{{route}}}
 }}{{#switch:{{{state|}}}
 |MI|VT=
 |#default={{Jct/abbrev/USA/US|state={{{state|}}}|type={{{type|}}}}}
 }}
|FFH=FFH {{{route}}}
|#default={{Infobox road/{{{state}}}/abbrev {{{1}}}
|num={{{2}}}
|denom={{{denom|}}}
|county={{{county|}}}
|dab={{{dab|}}}
}}}}

AndyPoms wrote:I've tried to get a few templates working and I couldn't get them to work...

See:
https://www.waze.com/wiki/index.php/Template:Citation
https://www.waze.com/wiki/index.php/Template:Cite_web