Category talk:Wikipedia requested maps

Cartography Lab proposal from WikiProject Council/Proposals

 * Description : This would be a complement to the Graphic Lab/Images to improve, specifically in the creation of maps for the undermapped articles, listed by the hundreds at Category:Wikipedia requested maps


 * Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
 * 1) Chris 06:18, 11 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Comments
 * See WikiProject Maps -- John Broughton (♫♫) 13:00, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Rock on! Thank you! Do I archive this discussion or just remove it? Chris 21:38, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I'd remove it, myself, as you indicate there already exists a project dealing with the subject area. John Carter 15:35, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
 * And perhaps mention the other project in the Talk pages of each as a suggestion that they might be of interest to each other...or of interest to someone looking for the right project for a task. (SEWilco 15:38, 16 October 2007 (UTC))

File:States of South Asia.png
How can I request an SVG map of this? I can find pretty detailed SVG maps of country-level data on Wikimedia. The country subdivision data isn't updated after 1998. And I would have to combine several maps and projections. I have some knowledge of GIS so should I georeference it myself with QGIS or ArcMap? Any helpful advice will be appreciated. InMooseWeTrust (talk) 13:40, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Try the Graphics Lab/Map workshop czar ♔  02:18, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Auto-Add Needs Update
I have two examples which were not added automatically to this list:


 * Talk:Landfills in the United States
 * Talk:Landfills in the United Kingdom

Can someone add them and make corrections to the script? Twillisjr (talk) 07:28, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Modifying Infobox Map to suit geographical coordinates
The maps in use in the infoboxes of the Kolkata neighbourhoods, say for example Sealdah or Ballygunge pages, is rather unclear and does not show much. There is a map in the Infobox of Dharmatala page which is much clearer and shows some important neighbourhoods. However, this map is not adjusted to geographical coordinates as those in the Sealdah or Ballygunge pages. Kindly make the map on the Dharmatala page suitable to take in geographical coordinates. Then it can be used on different pages of Kolkata neighbourhoods as an alternateive to the present map. The present map need not be removed. It can also continue without any change and editors can choose between the two. Kindly help. Cheers. - Chandan Guha (talk) 03:47, 13 March 2019 (UTC)


 * I have also placed a request at Wikipedia talk:Graphics Lab. - Chandan Guha (talk) 09:55, 13 March 2019 (UTC)


 * In Wikimedia Commons Category:Maps of Kolkata, there are similar but undisturbed maps. - Chandan Guha (talk) 21:43, 15 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Now, I have placed a request at Graphics Lab/Map workshop. Please treat this as closed. - Chandan Guha (talk) 23:11, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Articles appearing in main category from WikiProject Cities template
The description of this category indicates that articles should not appear in the main category and instead should be categorized into their most specific categories. I took care of most of the articles that were only listed in the main category by inserting the specific locations into Template:Map requested on the articles' Talk pages so they instead appear in their most specific category or categories. However, there are a number of articles still showing up in the main category and it looks these are the ones that have a map requested from Template:WikiProject Cities on their Talk pages - in these instances if a location is specified as a parameter in that template (e.g., |in=location}}, it lists the article in both the main category and the specific category. I'm not sure if that has something to do with differences regarding the use of "in" between the configuration of the media request templates (e.g., Template:Image requested uses "in-" before the location whereas Template:Map requested doesn't use "in-". Transpoman (talk) 12:05, 1 October 2023 (UTC)