Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Maps/Archive 2014

Joining the WikiProject?
Hello fellow editors of the WikiProject Maps!

I am very interested in creating maps for Wikipedia and have been creating a bunch of high quality maps lately and have been putting some of them into the infoboxes of the article and I was wondering if I could be of any assistance to the WikiProject Maps? I would love to work with you all if possible. Could I become a member the WikiProject by any chance? Please let me know as soon as possible! Cheers! :D Kirby (talk) 08:04, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Welcome! This project doesn't have much activity, so there is a lot of places were help is needed :) --Tobias1984 (talk) 11:55, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Okay! :D Kirby (talk) 18:11, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Help please, anyone
Can someone tell me, create for me, or tell me where to ask for a help? I want to create this for country Serbia.

Who can help me? Please help me, i really want to add this to article. I am asking for days to anyone for help, please, can anyone create this? --Ąnαșταη (ταlκ )  22:49, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Map legend guidelines?
Are there any rules, policy essays, or guidelines regarding legends for maps? Current a discussion at Talk:Syrian_Kurdistan about the inclusion of a legend item. As far as I'm concerned, if there's a color on a map, it should be in the legend. But wasn't sure if there were any official guidelines. Any help would be appreciated. Please reply with a ping to get my attention. EvergreenFir (talk) 05:08, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet For Wikiproject Maps At Wikimania 2014
Are you looking to recruit more contributors to your project? We are offering to design and print physical paper leaflets to be distributed at Wikimania 2014 for all projects that apply. For more information, click the link below. Project leaflets Adikhajuria (talk) 14:14, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Lines on maps
Hello! Am aware of the Template:Location map+ where multiple locations can be highlighted on a map. But is there any template to draw a line between such locations? These could be useful for drawing maps of roads/rail routes etc. §§ Dharmadhyaksha §§ {T/C} 12:44, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet For Wikiproject Maps At Wikimania 2014(updated)
Please note: This is an updated version of a previous post that I made.

Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:

• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film

• Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers.

• Less known major projects: Wikinews, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, etc.

• Wiki Loves Parliaments, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves ____

• Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen’s Collaborative, The Signpost The deadline for submissions is 1st July 2014 For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to: Project leaflets Adikhajuria (talk) 11:21, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

high priority re current event; Mount Polley mine disaster
I just added mapreq to the talkpage of the article, but wanted to place a heads-up here; the article, like the disaster, is only a few days old, and a map would go along ways towards enriching the article, which given it's the largest such disaster in Canadian history and there's lots of coverage, could be an FA candidate.Skookum1 (talk) 02:56, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Map convention update to come
As some map making practices have evolve a lot since the last revamp of the map conventions in 2011(?), I plan to make a revamp soon. Several key issues are to bring in : I don't know when I will have the time to do so, but this revamp is needed. Yug (talk)  15:34, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
 * the change brought by the Toolbox_SVG_locator_maps-en.svg (shown at the right)
 * the Wikimaps Atlas Project, which copy the WP convention but radically change map making practices, SVG code output, and enlarge possible usages. This project also require map guidelines to be more aligned.
 * some orther minor push are also to report.

Appalachian geospatial data question
is really bugging me because it's not accurate and appears to have been brushed over haphazardly. I mean there's a whole administrative region in Quebec named after the Appalachians, but the current map barely touches the province, so I was wondering where I could find actual official map data for the Appalachians which I could use in Photoshop, Inkscape, or other software to draw a more accurate map. My problems are:
 * 1) Does such data exist? I am under the impression that there are vastly different meanings to the word "The Appalachians" depending on the discipline. Other than geological and other such data, does a pure geographic definition of the Appalachian Mountains exist?
 * 2) I have been googling this, and have found such things as:
 * Something from the EPA's ArcGIS that I don't quite understand how to navigate?
 * XML files from the USGS that I also don't understand, but I think are about water drainage and not geospatial data
 * This NationalAtlas.gov map from which I don't think it's possible to extract data and it's about the Appalachian Highlands rather than the Appalachian Mountains, so the boundaries are larger


 * 1) If a data set does exist, what program(s) would be the most useful in achieving my goal?

Any help, even if only to point me in a general direction, would be most grateful. -  Sweet Nightmares  19:11, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Expert attention
This is a notice about Category:Maps articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 22:45, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

NYC Subway map needs fixing
This may be out of this WikiProject's scope but there is an error in this map. I have posted to WikiProjects NYC and NYC Public Transportation about this.

In short, the D line, identified by the irregularly spaced "D"'s in white font and depicted in orange on this map, has a white dot indicating a stop at 14th Street on the left center section of the map. Can this white dot be changed to be the same shade of orange as the rest of the line? – Epicgenius (talk) 19:17, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Launch of WikiProject Wikidata for research
Hi, this is to let you know that we've launched WikiProject Wikidata for research in order to stimulate a closer interaction between Wikidata and research, both on a technical and a community level. As a first activity, we are drafting a research proposal on the matter (cf. blog post). Your thoughts on and contributions to that would be most welcome! Thanks, -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 02:16, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Grouping colors
I initially came here to share a link to ColorBrewer2, one of the most helpful apps I've ever found online, but was pleased to see that it was already cited as a reference under WikiProject Maps/Conventions.

Prior to looking at this table, I was going to use one of the color sets from ColorBrewer2, particularly the one that is "colorblind safe". The colors selected on the table are not listed as "colorblind safe", and I was wondering if there was a reason for this? For now I'll use the selection listed, but I figured it would be best to provide maps that can be read by as many people as possible. – Maky  « talk » 21:33, 17 December 2014 (UTC)