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From NY Canals: Information and Cruising Guide to New York's Erie, Oswego, Champlain, and Cayuga-Seneca Canal System

Below you will find basic information on how to make edits. One thing that you may find helpful if you are new to wiki's is the editing syntax that we use: Find it here.

[edit] How to Edit an Existing Page

Editing an existing page is easy!

1. Click edit at the top of the page.
2. In the editing box, change what you would like. Editing Help
3. Click Show Preview.
4. Make sure that the page is as you would like it to be.
   1. If things are okay, click Save Page.
   2. If things are not okay, edit as before, and use Show Preview to check again.

If you change your mind, click cancel, and you will be returned to the page, without making any edits.

[edit] How to Add a New Page

Learn how to add a new location, with the Add a New Location Page.

[edit] How to Add a Map to a Page

Adding a map to a page is easy, there are only a few things that you need to do. 1.) First is to copy the following text into the page that you are editing, where you would like the map to show up.

 
  <div style="float: right; ">
  PUT COPIED MAP TEXT HERE
  </div>
  

2.) On the page that you are editing, there will be link that says: "make a map". Clicking on this, and a map editor will open.

3.) Center the map on the proper location that you are looking for. Also adjust the zoom so it is appropriate. (not too far in, but not too far out.)

4.) Add markers if you would like by clicking on the map. (Create links by using the normal linking method: eg.: "[[this is the link]]"

5.) Change the other fields to adjust the map settings if you would like.

6.) Copy the code that is printed below the map, and paste it in place of the bold part above.

7.) You can change the markers from the default one to any of the following:

• airport, bank, bath, boatramp, building, bampground, dive, drinks, fishing, food, gas, golf, hike, hotel, house, hunting, info, marina, markers, medical, parachute, park, picnic, scenic, spa, sski, swim, wski.

• Note: If you want to know what each looks like, enter into your browser: "http://www.nycanals.com/park.png" if you want to know what "park" looks like. Note that these are all in lowercase.