Interactive maps

This article is about all things related to the interactive maps on this wiki in general, and some technical aspects about them in particular.

General information

Interactive maps is a Fandom extension activated by default on all Fandom wikis. It allows to create maps that contain clickable items (markers) with underlying information with many options like zooming in and out, embedding it into articles, or link directly to certain markers.

Interactive maps have their own namespace which is Map:. They can be found in the "Explore" menu of the wiki navigation, or through Special:AllMaps.

Interactive maps can be edited with the "Interactive Maps Editor", a visual editor tool specifically for that use, or in source mode. Interactive maps are built with JSON, so the code used is very different from wikitext or parser functions. However, wikitext, and even templates, can be used inside of some of the fields defined in the JSON code.

For more information about interactive maps in general, see the Fandom help page about that extension.

Interactive maps on the FAM wiki

There are currently three interactive maps on this wiki:

Usage

The interactive maps on this wiki are used in a very basic way: Maps to browse through, see where everyting is located, and get some basic information about these locations. They are also linked to in some location infoboxes and certain articles, but not embedded anywhere directly.

Linking maps

Note: This section is about the technical aspects of linking to maps. There is also a template for that, see below.

Linking to interactive maps works in two different ways:

Linking to the map itself
Linking to a specific marker (location)

A) Link to a map

Linking to maps works the same way as linking to any other namespace page beside the main namespace: Using the page name with the namespace in front:

[[Map:<pagename>|<link-text>]] → [[Map:Mars Map|Mars map]] → Mars map

B) Link to a marker

Linking to a marker is different. Markers are added as query string to the page's URL. These kind of URLs cannot be linked with the internal linking method above, but need to use the wikitext formatting for external links. To link to a marker, its ID has to be known (see section Marker id below).

Examples:

Using the full URL
[https://for-all-mankind.fandom.com/wiki/Map:Mars_Map?marker=<id> <link-text>]
→ [https://for-all-mankind.fandom.com/wiki/Map:Mars_Map?marker=4 Ares Vallis]
→ Ares Vallis

Using the {{fullurl:}} parser function
[{{fullurl:Map:Mars Map|marker=<id>}} <link-text>]

→ As this results in an external link (to an internal page), it is opened in a new tab or window in the browser.

Map link template

There is a link template to link to interactive maps, covering both of the above possibilities → {{mapl}}

This template can be used to link to the map overview page, a certain map, or a certain marker in a map, including the option to define the link-text.

Read the template's documentation for details.

Marker id

To link to markers (locations) on an interactive map, the marker's id has to be known, no matter what method is used.

To find this id, see the list below. In case this list is not up-to-date and some ids are missing, any id can be found like this:

Go to the specific map, click on the desired marker, and then use the 3-dot-menu on top of the opening info-popup to find the function "Copy link". After clicking on this, the link can be pasted somewhere and the marker's id can be found at the end of the URL, looking like this: ?marker=<id>, where <id> is a number that is the id of that marker.

For a list of all ids click the button below: (last updated: 9 January 2026)

show/hide marker id list

World map [ link ]

ID	Location
1	Sakhalin Island
2	Guam
3	London
4	Berlin
5	Panama
6	Parras de la Fuente
7	Houston
8	Huntsville
9	Washington D.C.
10	New York City
11	Merrit Islands & Cape Kennedy
12	Los Angeles
13	Vandenberg Air Force Base
14	Moscow
15	Pyongyang, North Korea
16	Vietnam
17	Leningrad, USSR
18	Seoul, South Korea
19	Anchorage, Alaska
20	Saigon, Vietnam

US map [ link ]

ID	Location
1	Molly Cobb Space Center (CSC), Houston, TX
2	Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Merritt Island, F
3	Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
4	Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), Huntsville
5	Edwards Air Force Base, CA
6	Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, FL
7	Ellington Air Force Base
8	US Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale, CA
9	Vandenberg Air Force Base, Santa Barbara, CA
10	Gillespie Field, San Diego
11	Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

Mars map [ link ]

ID	Location
1	Happy Valley
2	Korolev crater
3	Olympus Mons
4	Ares Vallis
5	Meridiane Planum
6	Gusev crater
7	Elysium Planitia
8	Planum Australe
9	Chasma Australe
10	Valles Marineris

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Templates

The following templates related to interactive maps exist on the For All Mankind Wiki:

{{mapl}}
The map link template already mentioned above.

{{MarsMapContent}}
This template holds the information displayed in all marker popups of the Mars map.
It is used to overcome the 300 character limit that normally appears for those info popups.

{{WorldMapContent}}
This template holds the information displayed in some marker popups of the World map.

{{Map parameters documentation}}
This is a shared documentation explaining the use of map-links in infoboxes that have this option included.
It is used on this infoboxes' documentations.
Note that the syntax to add map links to infobox parameters is different from the link template above.

All map related templates can also be found in the category Map templates.