Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Maps/Archive 2015

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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Inaccurate maps of Shanghai
As here and here.

This issue about the exclaves hasn't been addressed and has gotten worse, since there are entire new 100 sq km islands forming that aren't currently being accounted for by our maps. Compare these with this Google map image or, if that doesn't work, y'know, go look at Google maps and compare. Should be pretty clear.

Our maps of Shanghai show up fairly low in the Google ranks if you just search for maps of Shanghai, but these district series are some of the main images people find when they're looking for info in English. We should be presenting maps that aren't 20-30 years out of date. — Llywelyn II   13:56, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Central meridian (planet)
There's a notice about Central meridian (planet) at talk:Meridian (astronomy) -- 70.51.200.101 (talk) 05:40, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Germanwings Flight 9525
Just wondering, does anyone have good tools that can take KML or GPX files and produce good quality, high resolution Open Street Map maps with a trace over the top? This is using the Marble application.

There might be a better way to get high resolution render from public Open Street Map.

Please ping me. -- Aronzak (talk) 19:27, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Africa imagemap
Interested parties, please see Template talk:Africa countries imagemap, where I question whether an imagemap of Arican countries is really as wrong as it seems to be. If it's not just me, could someone with some expertise in such matters please try fixing it? It's currently being used in the Africa article (and Outline of Africa). - dcljr (talk) 10:32, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I've nominated the template for deletion. - dcljr (talk) 22:42, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Historical maps on Hamburg now under free license
The State library of Hamburg has presented fresh images on historical maps and dutch baroque prints under free licenses. Please help to integrate them into Wikipedia. The donation took place in Coding da Vinci, the German art hackathon. More than 30 GLAM institutions presented open licensed data ready for integration to Wikimedia projects in Coding da Vinci. Some of these data sets have already been uploaded. Please feel free to do more uploading.--Barbara Fischer (WMDE) (talk) 09:43, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Map to be used in Malta
Your attention is called to a discussion at Talk:Malta concerning the above topic. 05:28, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

Operator maps
Is there a colour scheme convention on maps which detail the operators of a, often military, system? I see all kinds of colour scehems flying by, most systems originating in Russia use red as their primary colour and then use orange and pink to denote former operators and operators of modernised variants of a system as seen in this example map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AK47map.svg Most maps however use a shade of blue, with red for former operators, yet exactly which shades to use are unclear and many used sporadically. It would be nice to see a convention on this. Jurryaany (talk) 05:15, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Road maps when the road is the subject
How would you handle a road map where you need to highlight a specific road? I typically make maps for WP:USRD, which has its own standards for road maps (here). There we would use a red line for the highlighted road, but here, red lines are used for many types of roads. –Fredddie™ 03:52, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

New York City Subway route map


I am requesting a modification of this map, which is based off of this blank map.Chambers Street is no longer a terminal for the New York City Subway's J train (map pictured). I'd appreciate it if that text and the corresponding black text could be removed. Epic Genius (talk) 01:04, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

New wikiproject proposal: Information Visualisation
I'm proposing a new Wikiproject focussed on information visualisation. Since it has a some relation to this project, I'm adding a notification here. If you're interested, come and help brainstorm over here --> WikiProject_Council/Proposals/Information_Visualisation --naught101 (talk) 02:29, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Call for assist upgrading [File:USA orthographic.svg].
This is a call for technical assistance upgrading an orthographic map in an .svg format.

A discussion at Talk:United States has led to the conclusion that the map in use from Wikicommons, should be upgraded to include Puerto Rico using color #C6DEBD, representing “Other areas part of the same political unity”, as sourced at U.S. State Department, Common Core Document to U.N. Committee on Human Rights, December 30, 2011, Item 22, 27, and agreed to in a Request for Mediation and supported by a Request for Comment consensus on the Talk page with inputs from Politics, government and law. Geography. and the United States wiki communities.

The introductory sentence has been edited to read, "The United States of America (USA), ... is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major territories and various possessions." The map does not depict all insular territories, but Puerto Rico alone comprises 90% of their population, so it is useful in locating the United States in the Caribbean Sea, which the present version does not. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 09:35, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Proposed IEG project
I've proposed an Individual Engagement Grant project to do some work on the maps style for the new work out of Discovery: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikimedia_Maps_Rendering_Improvements. This work is not directly related to WikiProject Maps, but might be of interest to anyone following the more general subject of maps on Wikimedia sites.

I'm proposing working on road labels and borders. I'm not proposing to work on place labels as part of the IEG, because I had trouble defining good acceptance criteria. I didn't want an open-ended project where I'd have a hard time calling it done. Pnorman (talk) 19:34, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

Maps created by taking screen shot
Hi folks

I don't know if it is ok to create a map by taking screen shot and then cite relevant sources ? For example, I encounter an important map in a certain Google Book and want to upload the map on Wikimedia Commons, however it's kind of complicated to create that map, so I just take a screen shot of it and upload, citing the book title, ISBN, author, year of publication, link and the page number that contains the map. Bookworm8899 (talk) 07:20, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
 * You must not upload copyrighted material without permission. The book, and the map in it, are almost certainly copyrighted. SpinningSpark 07:59, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Articles about maps
I was about to put an article I wrote (Cassini Grid) within the scope of your Wikiproject, but on reading your page I am not so sure. The project seems to be entirely about creating maps for articles rather than improving and organising articles about maps. If I have that wrong, you really ought to say something about that on the project page. SpinningSpark 08:20, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

New maps tools
People here will be interested in User:Yurik's announcement of a new map server at WP:VPT. The team is also trying to collect some information about what features would be most useful to you. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:17, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Fragile State Index: 2014 and 2015 maps
The Fragile_States_Index would improve if maps for the 2014 and 2015 index were produced. 2015 rankings are here, the 2013 map is. I'd appreciate if someone with photoediting skills would give it some time :) --Davide Denti (OBC) (talk) 16:42, 22 December 2015 (UTC)