User talk:Mr. Matté/Archive 5

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Wikimedia Commons missing License
Hi Mr. Matté, please have a look at File:NJ CR 518 at CR 654.JPG and File:NJ CR 569 end in Hopewell.JPG. They both need a valid copyright tag. Thanks in advance. -- Rillke (talk) 18:58, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

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County map data
Hello! I am a student exploring a scripting and visualization software called Grasshopper and I would like to import the data in your USA county map to generate parametized analysis. As I understand your file, when I reformat your .svg file into an .xml and read it in Excel, column "AT" contains the coordinate information that draws the vectors in your map. Can you explain what these values ("M 74.350745,278.69935 L 73.911745,278.69935 L 73.030745,279.13935") represent? I can extract the data, and the software I am working with can translate it into points, vectors, lines, etc., but I do not understand how the coordinate system works. Any help you might be willing to offer would be much appreciated! 24.193.243.30 (talk) 01:07, 19 October 2012 (UTC)Michael
 * Sorry, but I don't know all the internal stuff with .svg coding either. I just work with the visual stuff. But thanks for taking an interest in my map! —Mr. Matté (Talk/Contrib) 02:02, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

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Autopatrolled
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Replacing lengths
Merry Christmas, Mr. Matté, and thank you for making a loooooot of KMLs. We really appreciate it. However, I noticed that recently you've been replacing official PennDOT highway lengths with those obtained from Google Maps and the KMLs you've created. This has occurred most recently in this edit. This is pretty much the opposite of what we've been trying to do, as in we're trying to get as many official DOT lengths as we can. For this reason, I must ask that you stop replacing the official lengths. Again, Merry Christmas! – TC N7  JM  18:27, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
 * The "official" length of PA 903 is 16.03 mi while the length as measured in Google Maps, Bing, my KML, Mapquest, and Yahoo gives it as 17.7 mi. This would cause problems when I'm writing in all the mileages for the junction table as it would look off to have the length as 16.03 and the last intersection at 17.7. It'd be nice to have a link to the file of official PENNDOT mileages to see if there is some kind of discrepancy (perhaps 16.03 is the amount of miles that they maintain though there was one instance of the official length being longer than the measured length). I won't delete any more "official" lengths but I will stop doing the jct tables if there is such a discrepancy with the maps' mileages and the official mileage. —Mr. Matté (Talk/Contrib) 18:45, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I have to ask, first, which software do you use to create KMLs? I use Google Earth, so my measurements are way off by default, but you may be using a better software. – TC N7  JM  18:54, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I use GE too (version 5.2). Perhaps the terrain affects the measurements? —Mr. Matté (Talk/Contrib) 18:59, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

As for the 16.35 mi, I have that from the PennDOT QGIS data, which is where I got it. You're going to have to get Quantum GIS and load the data to get the mileage. Mitch 32 (Victim of public education, 17 years and counting) 19:01, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I do have QGIS so at least there's that. But yet another new wrinkle: In the PennDOT Video Logs, in the blue bar across the screen, there's one stat (second from right) that lists what I'm guessing is total mileage since the terminus/county line. Again using the PA 903 example, the total for Monroe County is 0.847 mi and Carbon's is 16.838 mi, a total of 17.685 miles.
 * And now having downloaded the 2012 GIS data, assuming the SUM_LENGTH is in feet, I get a length of 17.73276515 mi for the route. So I think by now, it's safe to assume that the official length of PA 903 is 17.73 miles. Perhaps the data you used, you forgot to highlight a segment or the data is a little off due to high generalization of the line segments. All in all, this was a fascinating learning experience; there's at least new sources for these PA route lengths, and it's probably best to check whatever length you calculate from GIS data against other data.
 * Two final comments, this has to be the most amount of debate involving Pennsylvania Route 903 since State Trooper Bob A. Booey found a bag of cash along it in 1977 and I think we can all agree that finding sources for PennDOT sucks compared to the New Jersey Department of Transportation. Happy holidays and/or merry Christmas to you all! —Mr. Matté (Talk/Contrib) 19:43, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

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US 395 Alt KML
Hi Mr. Matte. I wanted to let you know that the KML you uploaded on U.S. Route 395 Alternate is incorrect. These Google Map directions indicate the current route of US 395 Alt.

Thank you for your efforts in adding KML files to USRD articles in Nevada. It is appreciated! --  LJ  ↗  06:11, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
 * That's what happens when my incorrect KML begins at the same road, ends at the road that begins with the same letter, and is also 20 miles long. Sorry about that, it's been fixed. —Mr. Matté (Talk/Contrib) 13:41, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

The Center Line: U.S. Roads WikiProject Newsletter, Winter 2013

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USRD Cup 2013
Hey there. Have you considered participating in the 2013 USRD Cup? I think you'd have a great chance to win with your mass creation of KML files. There's even a bonus for creating a certain amount of KMLs! Give it some thought, and have a great day! –TC N7 JM 00:45, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Not sure if you considered joining at all, but I think you'd have a good shot of winning it all just by making KMLs and not doing any other editing. –Fredddie™ 01:22, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Well I guess I'll have to respond to the many nominations. The timing for the contest is just about the worst possible time for me (well maybe "worst" isn't the best word for my specific situation). The only reason why I'm able to get 25 files done per day is that I've been stuck at home sitting in front of the computer all day since May. But starting February 4th, I start my first full-time job finally putting my new B.S. degree in civil engineering to use. Therefore, with regards to this contest, if nominated, I will not accept, if declared the winner, I will not serve. But I thank you for taking the time to check out my work, and I will continue to work on creating KML files and fixing up road articles, but not with the same volume or regularity as I am at now. Perhaps once I get into a regular work routine, I may be able to participate in the 2014 contest. Alternatively, any edits I do during the contest could be treated as spoilers therefore making the participants work even harder to win. :)


 * Cheers,

—Mr. Matté (Talk/Contrib) 02:53, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Anything in the bottom five states WikiWork-wise will be spoiler enough. :) –Fredddie™ 02:59, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Delaware route maps
They would be more useful in Wikipedia articles with much tighter margins; I've fixed a few of them. AnonMoos (talk) 03:52, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Per the Task force, the maps should ideally have a ratio of 1.7:1. —Mr. Matté (Talk/Contrib) 03:59, 7 February 2013 (UTC)


 * It's nice to have a standard, but if the standard leads to the poor state of Delaware being surrounded by a sea of transparent background, and this makes the map display in a smaller and harder-to-read manner in Wikipedia articles, then uniformity has unfortunately led to absurdity... AnonMoos (talk) 04:28, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I have a comment regarding the Delaware Turnpike map, the turnpike ends at the US 13 interchange, not the Delaware Memorial Bridge. Dough 48 72  15:37, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Barnstar
Thanks for that; for a while, I had no clue how to get these maps up and functional on the articles. But once I master the skill, I'll end up wasting my weekend doing whole states. Too bad the contest started otherwise I would definitely be in it now that I know I have the time for it. —Mr. Matté (Talk/Contrib) 23:03, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Yet...another...barnstar (you deserve it!)
Maybe you could help out a rookie. I'm trying to make a map for K-34 (Kansas highway), and I have a couple of questions:

Where do you get your city data?
 * Never mind. I found some good data.


 * 1) The print composer keeps adding a lot of extra room to the top of the file. How do I get rid of that in Inkscape?

I would really appreciate it if you could help me out here. –TC N7 JM 02:56, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I just want to preface my response with the notice that I'm just guessing what your issues are since I can't view them myself and also that since I'm not a coder/debugger when it comes to open-source programs like QGIS or Inkscape, I'm just a speaking about the features I can see when using them.
 * By city data, do you mean the yellow splotches or the dots/names representing the cities? If the former, in the TIGER data, go to the dropdown menu, select "urban areas," download the national file. For the latter, I just go to Google Maps/Earth and look for cities near the roads. This method is a little less methodical and possibly subject to WP:NPOV since I may leave "your city" out, but I try to be sparing with the city pinpoints anyway.
 * No. 2, does it physically add space between your preferred boundaries and the actual bounds or in the raw .txt that makes up the .svg file? For the former, in the print composer, you may have to click on "Move item content" (hand+globe) and move the map around a bit. When you get to Inkscape, I have problems involving the viewBox so under Edit>XML Editor, click on the top line (""), move to the right and click on the viewBox attribute and delete it. The scales/locations will be screwed up, but once you set your boundaries (I use the black rectangle created by the composer), they'll look better. While you're in the XML editor, there's often a bunch of empty groups so I'd delete them while you're there. In the text file, for all the metadata and junk at the top, I'd just leave it there. I just tried a little test where I got rid of a lot of that stuff, and I ended up saving only 4 KB.
 * I hope this hasn't thoroughly confused you. :) —Mr. Matté (Talk/Contrib) 03:32, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm not in Inkscape yet, but I don't see how that city thing would be NPOV. When I zoom out to see all of K-34, I can barely see the yellow splotches fullscreen. There's no way I'd be able to see them in the little teeny tiny thumbnail in the infobox. I'm going to ask some more experienced mapmakers on their opinion on this. –TC N7 JM 03:42, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

We need your assistance.
Hey there! We're currently in the process of making an easily updatable map of all the Good Articles within our scope. But to do this easily, we need all the KMLs for the Good Articles, which you have a lot of. Would you mind sending me the KML files you have created of current Good Articles via email? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. T C N7 <font color="black" face="OCR A Std">JM 01:58, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Just a list of the KMLs or the files themselves? Usually once I upload a file to WP, I delete my copy of the file so the best I can do get you a list, but once you get to the article, it's easy to download a copy of the KML file. —Mr. Matté (Talk/Contrib) 02:12, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
 * A list is perfectly fine. As long as I know what articles I'm trying to find. <font color="blue" face="OCR A Std">T <font color="red" face="OCR A Std">C <font color="gray" face="OCR A Std">N7 <font color="black" face="OCR A Std">JM 02:16, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Here's the list of what I hope is all my KML creations. Since I manually went through the list and deleted those that were not mine, I may have left some out/left erroneous ones in so this is not the full list of what I've created. And as a bonus, in the same format, the list of every GA/A/FA article with links to their respective KML file. About the download link, if you want to save the file and according to how my computer/browser handles it, click on it, a Save As... popup will come on, and you must save it as Foo.kml (don't save it as "Foo" or it will be saved as a .php). —Mr. Matté (Talk/Contrib) 01:01, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Alcohol control in the United States.svg Map
Hi, What data did you use for the Alcohol control in the United States.svg map? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.189.10.64 (talk) 13:10, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Divide by 0 error as I didn't create the map. By looking at the file, it looks like I created the blank base county map which was eventually used to create this (and he didn't even have to mention me since I put that map in the PD). —Mr. Matté (Talk/Contrib) 22:43, 26 March 2013 (UTC)