User:DutchTreat/Projects/Maps

Communities

 * WikiProject Maps
 * Graphics Lab | commons:Wikipedia:Graphics Lab
 * Map workshop
 * Wikimaps User Group active in 2021. As of 2022-10-29, no activities in 2022.

Dashboard

 * /dashboard status of requests

Help

 * Conventions: SVG template with icons; Location maps; Locator maps (blank);  Orthographic maps;  Area maps


 * Maps for Wikipedia more on Maplink automating and other discussions


 * Icons to use with Maplink

Discussion

 * Requests for comment/Using maps as sources from 19 March 2023

CRS

 * North American Datum - NAD83 zone 18 N for New York City
 * Gall–Peters projection
 * Gauss-Kruger coordinate system also known as Transverse Mercator projection - delivers high accuracy in zones less than a few degrees in east-west extent.

Tutorials

 * Creating route maps from OpenStreetMap data using Maplink with OSM data including routes. See New River (Belize).
 * User:JaneVannin/translations/topographic translation from fr-en (last updated in 2011-12-18)
 * steps for creating from DEM files in NASA SRTM format using 3DEM and GRASS GIS software
 * Graphics Lab/Resources/Change the colors of a country

People

 * Harrison, Richard Edes (1901–1994) scientific illustrator and cartographer
 * Berghaus, Heinrich (1797–1884) German cartographer, surveys of Prussia
 * Horthemels,Louise-Magdeleine (1686–1767)
 * Kaufmann, Obi (b. 1973), author and illustrator of The California Field Atlas
 * Lambton, William (c1753–1823)
 * Malègue, Hippolyte missing Wikipedia article as of Jan 2023

Best examples

 * The Klamath River from The California Field Atlas by Kaufmann (non-free image not allowed outside of article)

Tools

 * bboxfinder.com bounding box
 * Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) - toolbox for Earth, Ocean, and Planetary Science, see paper "The Generic Mapping Tools Version 6" Wessel (2019)
 * Coordinate convetr Degrees to DMS FCC
 * GeoJson.io - building and testing geojson
 * commons:User:ShareMap
 * mapshaper from
 * Gunn Map - creating thematic maps from loaded data
 * NASA WorldWind

Templates

 * GL Map reply  - helpful reply to requestor
 * Map - replace the Information in summery that gets applied by upload wizard
 * Map conventions - footer for WP Map pages
 * Annotated image -
 * Mali War detailed map including info flow between sources, articles and maps

Terms

 * Fluvial processes, see Gulch
 * Gazetteer - dictionary
 * Gulch - needs more details, plus topo map. Add topo maps from Canada's National Topographic System (NTS). See listing of gulches in Canada . There are 3 types listed in this source:
 * Type 1: Deep, steeply graded, V-shaped valley. Examples: Grub Gulch, B.C., 53.03333°N, -121.7°W (93 H/4); Gold Bottom Gulch, Y.T., 63.9°N, -138.98333°W (115 N & O); Bears Paw Gulch, Man., 49.65°N, -98.88333°W (62 G/10) and Arch Gulch, N.S., 45.35°N, -64.86667°W(21 H/7)
 * Type 2: Narrow cove with steep shoreline. Examples: Guys Gulch, N.L., 49.55°N, -53.81667°W (2 F/12); Bear Gulch, N.L., 49.73333°N, -56.8°W (12 H/10)
 * Type 3: Saltwater channel. Example: Camp Island Gulch, N.S., 44.88333°N, -62.15°W (11 D/16)
 * Hogback (geology), for example in Colorado Dakota Formation and Grand Hogback, draw 3D diagrams
 * Slough (hydrology) wetland, could feed into a lake

USA Regions

 * Northeast /usa-region-ne

Iowa
- East Okoboji Lake: OSM Way (113411373) - West Okoboji Lake: OSM - Spirit Lake
 * Iowa Great Lakes

North Carolina

 * Durham: Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Durham, Durham County, North Carolina.

1913
 * Plate 45, image 48
 * White Rock Baptist Church
 * St. Joseph's A.M.E. Church on Fayetteville and St. Joseph St


 * Plate 46, image 49
 * St. John's Baptist Church
 * Lincoln Hospital at E. Proctor and Cozart St


 * Plat 56, image 59
 * Primitive Baptist Church on E. Pettigrew

1937


 * Plate 1, image 2
 * North Carolina Mutual Life on W. Parrish St.
 * Washington Duke Hotel (unknown if related to Black Wall Street?)


 * Plate 203, image 67
 * Hayti - district with many black owned business in early 20th century (see article below)

Articles:
 * Black Wall Street (Durham, North Carolina)
 * Hayti, Durham, North Carolina

Wisconsin

 * Lake Superior improve leading photo: Both existing images have cloud cover, view of Earh from ISS and File:LS-MetOp-B.png, replace with Landsat 9 image without clouds

New Jersey

 * /world-series-birding
 * /nj-hudson

NYC - General

 * New York State Birding Trail: list of places "NYS Birding Trail Locations", create a map for them? It seems like it's a dynamic list, Add to Birding in New York City?


 * Council Districts /nyc-council-districts
 * Performance analysis of putting zoom of each district (2 March 2021)


 * Historic Districts /nyc-historic-districts


 * Monuments /nyc-monuments


 * Trees /nyc-trees-by-size


 * U. S. Congressional Districts change over time. How to best capture these changes? See New York's 10th congressional district. (a). in Commons, geocoordinates to specific district as Commons Data.map; then (b) in WD use qualifiers to define data ranges for the defined polygons.

NYC - The Bronx

 * /wildlife-bronx
 * /neighborhoods-in-the-bronx

NYC - Brooklyn

 * Bedford Historic District (Brooklyn) missing May 2024, designated in 2015, see Timeline of Brooklyn

Use Commons Category:Sanborn maps of Brooklyn > Category:Sanborn maps of Brooklyn published in 1906 (or 1908?)
 * Coney Island
 * Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, 1904-1908 at LOC
 * Volume 13 sanborn05791_025
 * Sea Gate in plate 1 to 5
 * Steeplechase Park sheet 21 (image 23) Commons
 * Dreamland sheet 24 (image 29) Commons
 * Luna park in sheet 26 (image 33) Commons
 * Volume 14


 * Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, 1915-1933
 * not complete at LOC


 * Atlas of borough of Brooklyn at NYPL Digital Collection
 * Volume 3, plates 14, 15, 16 including Luna Park

Wonder Wheel Park built in 1920


 * Gowanus Canal
 * Gowanus Canal development of 1888 map from Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. Sanborn Map Company, 1886-1888:
 * - Volume 1,plate 25, image 51 image 52; plate 26, Image 53 and Image 54; plate 27 image 56; plate 28 image 58; plate 29 image 59 image 60


 * - Volume 6, plate 138, image 7 and image 8


 * Newtown Creek /newtown-creek-brooklyn

- Concert Grove Pavilion, 153, East Drive, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, 11225 40.65934°N, -73.96414°W
 * Prospect Park

NYC - Manhattan

 * Bazzini - nut company on 339 Greenwich at Jay street, see map Sanborn Map Company, 1890 - 1902, Vol. 1, (1894) sheet 17
 * Land of the Blacks - see my page of maps: /nyc-land-of-the-blacks-manhattan
 * Lower Manhattan expansion - maps : /nyc-lower-manhattan-expansion
 * Seneca Village - my maps /nyc-seneca-village-central-park

NYC - Queens

 * Steinway Village (circa 1880) in Astoria, Queens

NYS

 * Rivers and waterways /nys-rivers
 * New York State Wildlife Management Areas, need a map? ; List of National Wildlife Refuges of the United States ; Tug Hill WMA in Montague, New York; Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (added 2022-08-10)

Oklahoma

 * Greenwood District, Tulsa

Stone Tower
On the Silk Road, Stone Tower (Ptolemy)

Tibet
See sample maps on subpage: /Tibet.

Used the Tactical Pilotage Chart Series.

Croatia

 * /zagreb-crnomerec

England

 * Domesday Book survey of England from 1086

Italy

 * /Venice - Palaces of Venice

Survey of Palestine
Select images with annotations:

File:Survey of Palestine 1942-1958 1-100,000 14Rafa.jpg

File:Survey of Palestine 1942-1958 1-100,000 17Nitsana.jpg

Turkey

 * /turkey

Christchurch

 * Christchurch mosque shootings
 * Christchurch Hospital at -43.5344, 172.6255
 * Linwood Islamic Centre at -43.532389, 172.672556
 * Al Noor Mosque, Christchurch at -43.532944, 172.611722

Wellington Region

 * Wellington Region request

Follow-up on 2021-09-08 from GL/Map Workshop request