User talk:Ja Braud

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Dot Project Maps
Hi. I had a question like you asked from User:Badagnani awhile back. I'm copying it from his talk page below, editing out the non-pertinent stuff.

''The dot maps are made using Paint Shop Pro 8. I start by datamining the Census Bureau's databases and TIGER mapping facility, Wikipedia, and anybody else, usually the target state's mapping agency, for all the raw data I need. I put together a rather nicely automated Excel spreadsheet that has the municipalities for each county in the target state, including latitute and longitude. The spreadsheet also "calculates" the various strings needed for each Wikipedia article (like "Image:MNMap-doton-Winnebago.png|right|Location of Winnebago, Minnesota" and "MNMap-doton-Winnebago", so that part is just cut and paste. The other element is to take some x,y points from each state's image that I can reference to a longitude and latitude and then do a linear regression to create map coordinates, again calculated by Excel. For instance, given Winnebago's longitude and latitude, its dot should be centered at (104,283) on the image.''

''I place the dots manually using Paint Shop Pro (never figured out the Python code I'd need to automate that part) and most important, I compare the location I put the point with its location on a county map for each county. This is necessary because of non-linearities in the process, and other minor issues that can move a point a few pixels away from its real map position.''

I should have hit all of the communities in Louisiana, but some states have "townships" or the equivalent, that weren't in the Census data I was using, and would have been additional work to gather. As I was burning out on the whole Dot Project thing at the time, I didn't go that route.

If there aren't too many, just eyeballing the position is probably good enough, if you're careful. I had thousands to do, so the calculations were well worth doing. Let me know if you would like more info. Good luck. Catbar (Brian Rock) 03:22, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

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