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Federal Lands in Southern Nevada


A self drawn map showing a number of interesting government facilities and their extensive ranges in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The map was originally intended for Area 51, but it's also used in Nellis Air Force Base, Tonopah Test Range, Yucca Mountain, Mercury, Nevada, Nevada Test Site, Nellis Air Force Range, and Desert National Wildlife Range. I think it illustrates all these articles pretty well, and it's as attractive as I can make it. Answers to some predicted objections are listed at Image:Wfm_area51_map_en.png. Once the FPC process is done (and I've integrated any suggestions I receive) I'll upload the SVG source to commons.

~ Veledan • Talk + new 00:25, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Nominate and support. - Finlay McWalter | Talk 00:22, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * The location map in the lower left isn't very sharp. Also, Esmeralda County is mislabelled as being in California along the left edge of the main map. Support. &mdash;Cryptic (talk) 01:59, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Both problems are fixed now. -- Finlay McWalter |  Talk 20:12, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support Brilliant, clear, effective. -- Rmrfstar 23:21, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Support: Good illustration -- Chris 73 Talk 07:35, September 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Very nice map, very useful. --Fastfission 15:02, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Support if you promise to make much more of such maps ;) Renata3 18:19, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * ( − ) Oppose Its a good map as maps go - only a few problems: Scotty's Junction seems to have an outer glow while no other word does (is it especially important?), looks very busy (though that probably can't be helped - although maybe making things like Amargosa Desert in a more muted color (not black) and leaving only towns in black would probably help). The real reason is that I just can't appreciate a map enough for it to be featured. I mean its basically no different to any number of maps, and although making that map obviously took a while, I think it would be easy enough to make another similar map for another area (and would that then deserve to be featured?). So good map, but to me it just doesn't seem all that special (maybe I just can't appreciate good maps :-)!) --Fir0002 10:13, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your detailed comments. Scotty's Junction does indeed have a glow, as do the labels for Mercury and the National Wildhorse thingy: these were the ones for which it wasn't practical to position the label where it wouldn't overlap roads or border lines. The glows are something of an afterthought (the previous versions of the image didn't have them).  When I'm able to change the image (not for a week or so) I'll experiment with making glows more uniform, and with label colours. -- Finlay McWalter |  Talk 10:48, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

