What are Walking Trails?

Trails are collections of content items that are in walking distance of one another. They can be used to tell the story of a local community, a historical person, or to show off the local architecture – anything, really!

Trails can contain Records, Overlays, Timelines, Journeys, Collections and even other Trails. Before you can create a Trail, you’ll at least need some Records.

Published Trails look like this:

Examples:

• Scarborough Old Town on Scarborough Atlas
• Feminist History in the East End on Layers of London

Resources:

• Humap & Copyright
• Humap & GDPR
• Different types of user accounts on Humap

Creating and managing Trails via the Contribute system

• Go to the home page of the Humap instance you’d like to contribute to and click Explore the Map. 

• From the map home page, click the plus icon in the top right corner of the information tray
• If you’re not logged in, log in now
• If public signups are enabled, you can create an account
• If signups are not enabled, you’ll need an invitation from the project owner to contribute

• That will take you to the contribution home screen

• Click Trail to get to this welcome screen:

Introduction

• Click Begin to get to the next screen.

Add a name and description

• Add a title into the Title text box and a description in the Description box below.
• Use the formatting options to make your text pop, and remember to break up long paragraphs.
• When you’re done click Next. 

Add an image

• To add a cover image either drag and drop an image file into the box or click browse files and select the file you would like to upload.
• Click the X in the corner of the uploaded image to delete it.
• Click Next when you’re done.

Assign to a Team

• If you are a member of any Teams, you can add this Trail to that Team here by ticking the box and clicking Next.
  • Teams let you share ownership of content with other users – if you assign a piece of content to a team, anyone in that team will be able to edit it.

Add content

• Now it’s time to add content to your Trail. Use the free search bar at the top, the show only your content toggle, and the more search options button to refine your search.
• Click on an item to add it to the Trail. You can decide on the order of content in the Trail on the next screen.
• Click Next when you’ve added all of the items you want into the Trail.

Create route

• On this screen you can put the content items in your Trail in order by clicking them.
• Once their in order, green lines will appear linking each item. To manually order the route, click the green line and drag it into position.
• Alternatively you can click Auto-create route to generate your Trail.

• To change the order the pins are in, click a pin, and use the dropdown menu to select when you would like that item to appear in the Trail

• You can also click the pencil next to the estimated distance and duration of your Trail to edit this information or remove it entirely.

• Click Finish to get to this screen.

Final step

• If you’re ready to publish your Trail, click Publish.