Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ocean map

Ocean map


Created by Avsa, this is one of the more creative diagrams I've seen. It rightly discards land altogether, and shows the respective sizes of each body of water. This is about as close as you can get to an "oceanocentric" worldview. Illustrates Ocean, and definitely pulls in article readership. -- brian0918 &#153;  29 June 2005 01:36 (UTC)


 * When dolphins become ultra-intelligent, their world maps will probably look something like this. Nominate and support. - brian0918  &#153;  29 June 2005 01:36 (UTC)
 * It's neat, but my eyes keep seeing the familiar outlines of the continents. Would be much neater if... like... well, maps of the world in this fashion are usually topographic, right? Mostly green and blue and brown, with blue oceans? Why not switch it? Show the mountains and valleys of the ocean, and have the land in formless blue? I dunno. I'm rambling. :) And I love your point about the dolphins. --Golbez June 29, 2005 02:37 (UTC)
 * Of course this will retain the land's outline, because water surrounds land. I was thinking more of the maps like this that completely ignore the water. As for the colors: land is fairly green and brown, and water looks blue. I think what you're talking about would be a bathymetric map like this (although interesting, not as creative/original, and not made by one of our own creative/original users). -- brian0918 &#153;  29 June 2005 02:53 (UTC)
 * The more I look at it, the more I enjoy seeing the shapes of the oceans. --Golbez June 30, 2005 17:43 (UTC)
 * I am the author so I don't think I can vote, but just to discuss: This map ignores land altogether: the background is not white but transparent, and I choose not to use the mercator projection because it distorts the southern seas. You still se the continents because you are so used to them. I agree that using bathymetric data would add to the map, but I wouldn't know how to do it. If someone wants to improve it, well the image is GFDL! I hope this image reaches featured status (none of my article ever got : --Alexandre Van de Sande 29 June 2005 23:01 (UTC)
 * You can vote for your own picture. -- brian0918 &#153;  29 June 2005 23:30 (UTC)
 * Actually, I thought that in general one can't/shouldn't vote for your own work. But, what do I know. This link is Broken 29 June 2005 23:33 (UTC)
 * Well you can "self nominate" images that you created, so I don't see why you shouldn't be able to vote for your own image if it was nominated by someone else. -- brian0918  &#153;  29 June 2005 23:35 (UTC)
 * But, when you self-nominate your vote doesn't count (or that's how I thought it was). This link is Broken 30 June 2005 05:00 (UTC)
 * Your vote doesn't count when considering the minimum number of votes for it to be considered a featured picture, but if that minimum is passed, then it counts. -- brian0918 &#153;  30 June 2005 13:35 (UTC)
 * Support - Dolphins have progressed far beyond the point of making simple world maps. :) Sango  123  July 2, 2005 16:02 (UTC)
 * Support. It is a very dramatic way of demonstrating that the surface of the Earth is mostly water. Blank Verse   &empty;  3 July 2005 09:28 (UTC)
 * Support -- Chris 73 Talk July 5, 2005 05:55 (UTC)
 * Support An attractive projection. --Henry Bottomley 5 July 2005 22:19 (UTC)
 * Support. James F. (talk) 9 July 2005 01:40 (UTC)
 * Support. Most certainly unique. Enochlau 13:12, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Support -- Interesting and informative. - Longhair | Talk 13:46, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

-- Enochlau 13:58, 13 July 2005 (UTC)