Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Map workshop

[edit] Axial Seamount

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Article(s): Axial Seamount

Request: Cleanup, wikify, vectorize, crop the title at the top. Prospective GA. Thanks, ResMar 02:55, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s): Y Done Jon Chui (talk) 02:55, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks: now I just need to find my source usb... :) ResMar 23:38, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Bihar legislative assembly election, 2010

Article(s): Bihar legislative assembly election, 2010

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  Attempt (please update/modify)

Request: Could someone please a make a map like this [1] from the one currently on the page? It seems the external one would be copyvio.

Also, after the polls are announced on November 24 then wed need something like this. Thanks. Lihaas (talk) 13:37, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

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Using the SVG that map file was derived from would be better. I find it a little odd that it's not just a clipped region from the SVG file. gringer (talk) 21:39, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Actually, on further observation, that map won't do. The administrative boundaries aren't detailed enough for the election boundaries. gringer (talk) 12:44, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

To demonstrate that, I've extracted out the relevant portion of the locator map and coloured regions as close as possible to the boundaries in the external image (using 4-colour colours plus two more taken from the locator conventions). gringer (talk) 13:12, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Iran–Bolivia relations

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Article(s): Iran–Bolivia relations

Request: Need an introductory map akin to Iran - Ecuador relations. Thanks again for all your hard work.Lihaas (talk) 07:54, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s): Y Done Wereldburger758 (talk) 06:29, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks.(Lihaas (talk) 10:38, 1 November 2010 (UTC));

[edit] EuropeArticleLanguages map

Stale: DyceBot (talk) 07:01, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

I would like to request an edit to the map found under Article (grammar), originally submitted by Nikolik. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_(grammar) It has been fixed a few times already. I wish I knew how to edit it myself, but I don't. Basically the Arabic speaking world is currently the lighter shade of blue in the legend, which indicates definite articles only. A new category in the legend needs to be named "definite and diacritically marked indefinite articles." This information is already present in the Wikipedia article that the map is being used for.

Please contact me if there is any issue. Thanks. Rsg70007 (talk) 06:01, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

graphist opinion: This should be a simple photoshop job if all you need is a PNG. The thing is... I got confused reading the article (ahh! Grammar!) Can you just tell me/us which countries need to be changed to what shade of color? Jon C (talk) 23:46, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

[edit] elk and moose maps

Stale: DyceBot (talk) 07:02, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Request: I don't really know anything about the processes used to create such a map, but I do know that I have seen elk as far north as Whitehorse, Yukon, which does not appear to be included on this map. So I guess I am asking for some clarification on what data was used to create this map and suggesting that it may need to be updated. I will do some digging of my own to see if I can find some verification. Beeblebrox (talk) 02:28, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Well, the Yukon government is issuing hunting permits as far north as Carmacks, [2] so either I am misreading the map or it is inaccurate, I doubt they are issuing permits to hunt elk that don't exist. Beeblebrox (talk) 02:39, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Oh dear, I'm afraid the map of the range of the moose has the opposite problem, moose do not live in the rugged coastal areas of Southeast Alaska, here is the Alaska Department of Fish and Game map of the moose range in Alaska [3] (scroll down). It even shows them living on islands that are well offshore. Moose are ok swimmers, but not so good that they could swim all the way out the Aleutian Islands. Beeblebrox (talk) 03:32, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

I know the origin of this map (althought I didn't upload it). It comes from IUCN red list http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/818/0. It's part of a work who digitized almost all mammals species' distributions. However, as expected in any big work, they are highly inaccurate when we see a single species. Unfortunately, as far as my knowlegde goes, this is the most accurate map avaiable free and online, and is even accepted in the academy. Several papers in biogeography and macroecology use these maps to draw global patterns. Concluding, unless someone find a regional map, we won't have other choice. (First comment in wikipedia sorry if something is wrong, or english is bad) 201.51.80.146 (talk) 00:35, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s):

I agree these maps are not very good. Neither provides sources. It's not uncommon for Wikipedia/Commons maps to get away with not providing sources, but they should, same as text on Wikipedia. There are many many obviously inaccurate maps on Wikipedia/Commons, and this seems to be another example. I wouldn't trust it. Some kind of reliable source needs to be found for making a good map. The moose map stands out as clearly wrong to me. It seems to claim there are moose in the Oregon High Desert, Vancouver Island, the Olympic Peninsula, etc etc, but not in Yellowstone and the Tetons. I almost walked into a moose in the Tetons! And there definitely aren't any on the Olympic Peninsula. It also shows moose distribution in the Buffalo and Niagara Falls area, which I can assure you is plain wrong. You could bring up these problems on the talk pages of each map, although I've had little luck in getting results that way. You could bring it up on talk pages for articles that use the maps. The best thing would be to find a reliable source with maps showing the proper distribution. (Okay, I just added comments to the talk page on the moose map at The Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moose_distribution.png -- and a "disputed accuracy" template. Don't hold your breath though--the file has not been edited in a long time. It's possible the author is long gone) Pfly (talk) 12:19, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Bhutan and World Wars

Stale: DyceBot (talk) 07:01, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Article(s): World war

Request: Change Bhutan to the color grey beacuse it was nuetral during the Wars Spongie555 (talk) 06:35, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

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[edit] UK postcode map

Stale: DyceBot (talk) 07:03, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Request: Can someone create an svg map out of this [4]. It's a postcode map of the UK in about 2008. I'm not sure if it's up-to-date. I think it may not be, since it is 120 codes [5], and our article states there are 124 (although the ref appears to be a deadlink). If someone could make an svg from the map I linked to, then we could use it as a template for the surname distribution maps that this website shows [6]. Just do a search for a surname on that site, and see how they show the distribution of names. I'd like to be able to do that in some of our articles. Could someone bang up a map we could use as a template?--Brianann MacAmhlaidh (talk) 11:07, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

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[edit] Clean up on external map

Stale: DyceBot (talk) 07:02, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Article(s): Zhao Rugua

Request: I have two halves of a map that need to be cleaned up. Unfortunately, they are each too big to be uploaded to a hosting site, so I can't provide a link for other editors to look at. I plan on adding a smaller version of the complete map to the linked article, but I need the larger version cleaned up first. If anyone is interested in looking at the map, you can contact me via my email, which is accessible through Wikipedia. Just go to my talk page and click the button that looks like a mail box. If the interested editor has email set up, I will email you both halves. Basically, a gray haze needs to be removed from the background and the letters and outlines on the countries need to be darkened. Thank you. Ghostexorcist (talk) 13:47, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

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[edit] Navi Mumbai Map

Stale: DyceBot (talk) 07:02, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Article(s): Navi Mumbai, various others

Request: Please create a map of Navi Mumbai (http://www.navimumbaiindia.com/images/navi_mumbai.jpg, http://www.maharashtratourism.gov.in/mtdc/HTML/MaharashtraTourism/images/MapsofMaharashtra/Mumbai/greater-mumbai.jpg) in SVG. I have tried using OpenStreetmap, but since I am not good with vector graphics, I have not been able to produce a good map for this city which requires one.) --92.3.157.210 (talk) 15:31, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Flag-map of the world

Stale: DyceBot (talk) 07:02, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Article(s): Quite a few

Request: In the small previews, only Southeast Asia and Australia are visible. I used the same method to make each country so I don't know the cause.

If it helps you to determine the cause, the versions of this file prior to October 2010 only have the US missing (they're outdated though). Transparent 6lue (talk) 22:50, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

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[edit] Veracruz, Mexican State

Stale: DyceBot (talk) 07:00, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Article(s): Veracruz and Municipalities of Veracruz and derivated articles for each city/municipality

Request: Hi I would like to have an image like Image D but for the State of Veracruz (ignoring the infobox in Image D). Actually my main concerns are:

1. The size of Image A (2.05MB) when i see images like E (432KB) or F (123KB). If you could give me reduced version of this image I can do all the rest.
2. Missing municipality on Image A and B: in Image B, the Municipality in darker blue is Playa Vicente (number 21 of Image C) which wrongly includes Santiago Sochiapan (number 22 Image C) within its borders, if it could be added to a reduced version of Image A, there is no need to create an image similar to Image D, i could take care of it.

Thank you very much. (Sorry to be repetitive, but just a reduced file size would make my day and I could start creating derivative maps after having it) EOZyo (мѕğ) 07:28, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s):

The size is in the details - image A contains polygons for all municipalities, which takes up much more data than just drawing all states of Mexico. Technically, a less precise version of A (i.e. one with less nooks and corners of all municipalities displayed) would suffice, but that's a lot of work. With a regular image, you could use graphical software to smooth the lines, but since every line is actually two edges of neighbouring municipalities, automatic smoothing gives unsatisfactory results... Sorry. Is the big file size a problem, though? Classical geographer (talk) 10:53, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Rally Dakar

Stale: DyceBot (talk) 07:00, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Article(s): 1979 Paris–Dakar Rally and others from Template:Dakar_Rally

Request:Hello, please create maps of all years Dakar Rally in same style like 2010 and 2011 (easy-translate SVG with all route). Sources are here [7] and here [8]. Thanks. Slfi (talk) 16:59, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s): That's a lot of work, Slfi. Makes it worth your while to have a go yourself with Inkscape, maybe, if someone here provides you with a map showing France, Spain and NW-Africa? Classical geographer (talk) 10:49, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Transilien P

Stale: DyceBot (talk) 07:01, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Article(s): Transilien Paris – Est, Ligne P du transilien on the french wikipedia and the future article Transilien lijn P on the dutch wikipedia

Request: Could you make a map of line P of the transilien-network? Resources can be found here and here. Aliesperet (talk) 17:25, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Graphist opinion:

There is no map at all of any Transilien service. I think that would be a first priority; either a schematic map (as on the official Transilien website here) or one overlaid over a map of Paris - which would have the advantage of showing more clearly that Transilien services reach somewhat further out than the RER network. Aliesperet, what do you say? Classical geographer (talk) 10:45, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Requester's Answer Than, if possible, an overlaid map which would have the advantage of showing more clearly that Transilien services reach somewhat further out than the RER network. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aliesperet (talk • contribs) 20:13, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Benghazi Map

Article(s): Benghazi

Request: Please vectorise the map and make it look nice.

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Jaw101ie (talk) 19:49, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Jaw101ie - I'm working on the map and will try to get it done in the next day. We're also working on improving OpenStreetMap coverage for Benghazi. [9] --Aude (talk) 17:15, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Trinidad area code map

Article(s): [[Area code 868

Request: This crayon-made version is an embarrassment. Can someone make a better one, please? DS (talk) 23:41, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s): We'd need a source for the area code boundaries other than the crayon map to base a new one on. I did a very quick look and didn't see one. Kmusser (talk) 13:39, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Ü-Tsang

Article(s): Ü-Tsang

Request: It's interesting, but can we make it more encyclopedic? and png or svg?... Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 03:26, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

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[edit] Terai

Article(s): Terai

Request: Please create a map for the article (maybe similar to File:Indo-Gangetic Plain.png?)

WWF: Map of ecological divisions of Nepal, showing the Terai 78.55.207.248 (talk) 07:48, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

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[edit] United Kingdom Population density map

Article(s): United Kingdom

Request:I am here to ask you to please make a map showing the population density of the United Kingdom and its territories and crown dependencies. I two examples of the type of map in which I am referring to is the Spanish map- File:EspDens2.jpg and also the French map - File:France_population_density_40pc.png Thank You Rctycoplay (talk) 16:17, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

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[edit] Roman Empire map - needs correcting

Article(s): Roman Empire

Request: In the orthographic projection, the Roman Empire's northern border (from the western edge of the Black Sea to the North Sea needs to be corrected. The northern border of Roman Britain also needs to be slightly adjusted. The second map shows the correct borders. The rest of the borders could also use some cleanup, so anything else that brings it closer to the second map would be appreciated. Swarm ^X 07:29, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

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[edit] Town of Bergen, New Jersey

Article(s): Bergen City, New Jersey

Request: I just added an 1868 legal boundry description to the Bergen City, New Jersey article of the no-longer-existing Town of Bergen, New Jersey. If you have time, please post a modern map with lines showing the boundary. Also, a map for Bergen Township, New Jersey (1893–1902) and Centre Township, New Jersey, please, using the legal boundry description posted there. Uzma Gamal (talk) 15:45, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

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[edit] Historic map of Arabia

Article(s): Saudi Arabia,History of Saudi Arabia

Request: The labeling on the map is very small (and can't be read even in History of Saudi Arabia where it's 350px, can they be made bigger to be more readable? The only labels that need to be made bigger are the ones in the main blue area, the green area (labeled Hejaz) on Red sea coast, and the yellow area (labled upper Asir) in the bottom left. There seems to be plenty of space to do it. The other labels in the other areas are not relevant to the articles so can stay small. The other thing is there are dates under the label written in a strange way with year and month running into each other eg "192207". Can they be changed to eg "07/1922" or, preferably, if there is enough room "July 1922" DeCausa (talk) 09:15, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

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[edit] Battle of Wagram map(s)

Article(s): Battle of Wagram (Major expansion of the article to come).

Request: Create a few well-illustrated and catchy maps of the battle. Ideally, 4 maps would be needed (see below). Alexandru Demian (talk) 16:38, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Hello, I am currently preparing a major expansion of the article about the battle of Wagram. I need a few well-illustrated and complete maps, such as the one you have made for the battle of Gebora. Ideally, four maps would be needed:

• 1. one map showing operations on 5 July: the French crossing of the Danube
• 2. one map showing operations on 5 July: the evening attacks.
• 3. one map showing the early operations on 6 July
• 4. one map showing the French attacks and Austrian retreat late on 6 July.

Some good maps are available here. There are also some very reliable and well illustrated maps of the battle in Ian Castle's "Aspern & Wagram 1809: Mighty Clash Of Empires".--Alexandru Demian (talk) 16:38, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

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[edit] Map of Masoala National Park

Article(s): Masoala National Park

Request: I would like to replace the low-res map on this article with something better. I recently rewrote Marojejy National Park and plan to eventually re-write this article as well. We clearly need a much better map. – VisionHolder « talk » 16:20, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

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[edit] Gateway Project

Article(s): Gateway Project

Request:

• Project Map
• Gateway Project
• 40°45′42″N 74°04′30″W / 40.76161°N 74.074985°W / 40.76161; -74.074985

Would be great to have a detailed map of this planned new high speed rail corridor, info for which gives an idea... Djflem (talk) 00:27, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

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[edit] Map of USA with state names.svg needs a more detailed/robust font-family in source SVG

Article(s): Political_divisions_of_the_United_States

Request: In the source of the file, replace:

font-family:Nimbus Sans L 

with:

font-family:'Arial Narrow','Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;" 

This makes the source SVG map more readable where "Nimbus Sans L" is not installed. Tested on a local copy.

Graphist opinion(s): Made the font bold. What do you think about that? Wereldburger758 (talk) 07:18, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Recognition of same sex unions

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Article(s): Recognition of same-sex unions in Europe

Request: Please make Poland, Romania and Greece yellow as the issue is currently under consideration in these countries ... Rctycoplay (talk) 23:51, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Graphist opinion: Request taken by Makeemlighter Y Done Makeemlighter (talk) 04:03, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Someone has changed it back, though. I'm not sure what the deal with that is. Makeemlighter (talk) 20:27, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Y Done I see what happened. One of the other yellows wasn't the same, and I'd sampled from it. I've fixed this. Makeemlighter (talk) 18:48, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Helmet laws of the US

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Article(s): Bicycle helmet laws, Bicycle helmet

Request: I am mentoring a student working in the Public Policy project who is working on an article on bike helmet laws. She would like a map of the US showing what states have what laws -- see here for a copyrighted map of the kind we are looking for. The following states should be shown as having statewide laws: AL, CA, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, LA, MA, MD, ME, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OR, PA, RI, TN, WV; and the following states have local laws but no statewide laws: AK, AZ, IL, KS, KY, MI, MO, MT, NV, OH, OK, TX, VA, WA, WI. All the other states have no laws. Source is here. Thanks for any help. Mike Christie (talk – library) 18:58, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s): Request taken by Makeemlighter Y Done How's this? Makeemlighter (talk) 22:03, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Looks great! Thanks! Mike Christie (talk – library) 22:30, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Lake Peipus

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Article(s): Lake Peipus

Request: Please translate from Russian to English. P. S. Burton (talk) 22:54, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s): Request taken by Makeemlighter

An English version already exists. I was 50% done before I realized this. Oh well. Makeemlighter (talk) 10:27, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

I'm terribly sorry about that. I found the Russian map in the article and simply assumed there was no English version. I should of course have searched better. Lesson learned. Thanks for the help anyway. P. S. Burton (talk) 22:19, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Battle of Attock

Article(s): Battle of Attock

Request: Please create a proper battle map, I've uploaded tons of proper battle maps from military sources so I would appreciate it if someone could return the favor. Thank you Profitoftruth85 (talk) 02:19, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

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[edit] List of Sovereign states and dependent territories in Europe

Article(s): List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Europe

Request: Create an svg similar to the Jersey one (highlighted on large map and inset world map, zoomed in on in inset) for Guernsey, and for Akrotiri and Dhekelia (together). If there was a good existing svg showing the islands, then I could make the insets, but I can't find any, thus the png's in the gallery. In addition, if someone could look at File:Europe-Isle of Man.svg, something went wrong and I can't figure out what (details on talk page). Couple of other maps need editing for the article, but this would be a good first step. Thanks, Chipmunkdavis (talk) 15:09, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

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[edit] 2011 Libyan protests

Article(s): 2011 Libyan protests

Request: Hello. The map about the ongoing Libyan protest will need frequent edit. Thus, the SVG format is really encouraged. I collected all tools, the need is to redo the jpg map into SVG format. As a secondary thing, both the ethnic map and density map are relevant, either to include, either to redo as separate files based on File:Libya location map.svg. Who take it ? 140.120.55.63 (talk) 09:55, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

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