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Sweden cities and maps
I don't want to clog up your talk page about these matters that do after all concern Sweden in general, so I write it here. Working on the most recent suggested project, Sweden geo stubs, I noticed Swedish wikipedias fine maps, e.g.: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trelleborgs_kommun. Maps are something we are in the need of. I've noticed User:Mic doing some maps, but more are needed. We really have no maps of where cities are located and I think it sucks. Not even Malmö has a map of its location.

I did a check with lantbruksmäteriet and their maps are copyrighted, and they charge a lot for the use of them, and would probably not allow them on wikipedia anyways. So do you have any other suggestion?

As another examples of usefulness, I would have liked a map of Sweden where the monasteries in the medieval age are marked. --Fred chessplayer (talk) (edits) 12:19, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * There might be older (PD) publications to use for historical maps; if they are not up to date with later research, scanning them may at least provide a good departure point for editing in an image program with the aid of newer reference works. Likewise, for historic parts of cities which remain unchanged, the Nordisk familjebok maps may be used. I was thinking of using a cropped version of the NF Uppsala map for the area around the cathedral and the old university buildings, which looks more or less the same today as in 1920. The NF Stockholm map can probably be used for Gamla Stan in Stockholm, but it is obviously useless, except as a historical map, for large parts of Norrmalm. Central Lund probably looks familiar from the NF map. Uppland 10:44, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Sweden geo stubs
There is currentl a page for all muncipalities. However, ther is not a page for the cities with the same name. Should we write info about the city Ystad at Ystad Muncipality? There is currently no page about the city Ystad, (nor about many other cities: Trelleborg, Kiruna, Karlskrona...) --Fred chessplayer (talk) (edits) 10:08, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * The cities should get their own pages, but there is probably no reason to separate the material until it gets large enough to be more than two stubs, unless there is a good structural reason to do so. At this time, even the largest Swedish cities/municipalities have relatively small articles which need a lot of expansion.


 * BTW, a couple of historical geographical units which should be entered:
 * the historic parishes (socknar)
 * the hundreds (härader)
 * This is a lot of work and may not need to be done manually. I am wondering if there might be a few good, freely usable databases somewhere which could be tapped into Wikipedia with the help of a bot. Uppland 10:59, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)