User:Mojoworker/Campaignbox Map

Campaignbox with an optional campaign map

A simple list of battles doesn't always give a clear picture of a campaign, since a campaign can have few battles — or battles that are widely distributed — over a large geographic area, such as Morgan's Raid or the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War for example.

It could be useful, at least in certain circumstances, to have the campaign map available within the campaignbox — especially for campaigns that have no actual campaign article for the title of the campaignbox to link to. This would allow the viewer to obtain additional information from the campaignbox itself as well as assist the viewer, who may be unfamiliar with the battles in the campaign, to better navigate to the desired article, rather than clicking on each of the battles in the campaginbox list.

Such an example is {{Campaignbox Morgan's Raid in Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio}} which has included a campaign map since 2008 and has been updated to test a prototype campaignbox with additional parameters for map_image and map_caption. Note that the map can be expanded independently from the campaignbox, and brings up the question: if the campaignbox parameter "state=expanded", should the map also be expanded?.