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The Graphics Lab is a project to improve the graphical content of the Wikimedia projects. Requests for image improvements can be added to the workshop pages: Illustrations, Photographs and Maps. For questions or suggestions one can use the talk pages: Talk:Graphics Lab, Talk:Illustrations, Talk:Photographs and Talk:Maps.
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Seattle

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  • Sad beginnings of a Seattle map
    Sad beginnings of a Seattle map
  • Ideally should look something like this
    Ideally should look something like this

Article(s): Seattle

Request: Trying to get this thing rolling, this is a request out of the archives that I'd like to see get done and just don't have never had the time to do myself. Seattle is one of our featured articles and it really ought to have a decent map to go with it. Kmusser (talk) 18:01, 27 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

OpenStreetMap may also help a lot ! Yug (talk) 06:41, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yes Seattle on OpenStreetMap, osmarender view, cloudmade original, cloudmade tourist, cloudmade fine line. These are all cc-by-sa licensed and can be screenshotted and uploaded to wikipedia. SVG export is also possible, but at the current time it's a bit unreliable for zoomed out whole city maps. -- Harry Wood (talk) 10:37, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

North America Geology Map

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Article(s): Geology of North America and many others.

Request: Re-listing Connormah's request from the Image Lab - map probably needs to be re-done from scratch in order to look good. Kmusser (talk) 13:07, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

Algonquin

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Article(s): Algonquin

Request: Another request re-listing, originally from Connormah, map should be totally re-done. Kmusser (talk) 13:09, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Non-Graphist questions: What is the meaning of the dotted areas? Should it show uncertainty in the distribution, movements or is the map resolved to village-level? Not being familiar with American history, did the states/provinces exist as indicated on the map around 1800? bamse (talk) 17:37, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Presumably it's to show the uncertainty in the distribution, it's mapping linguistic groupings which wouldn't have definite borders - and the state/prov. boundaries shown are modern. Kmusser (talk) 19:18, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for clarifying. I suppose at their common borders the different groups would overlap then (?) If the state/prov. boundaries are modern, they should not appear in a map from 1800 in my opinion. bamse (talk) 19:59, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Faisal-Weizmann

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  • Existing, incorrect, OR map
    Existing, incorrect, OR map
  • This map is to use as background for the new one.
    This map is to use as background for the new one.

Article(s): Currently shown on Faisal–Weizmann Agreement, British Mandate of Palestine and Churchill White Paper, as well as discussed on talk pages.

Request: Hail graphists, if only my rapidographs were of the current era, I wouldn’t need to bother you. As an appreciative and knowledgeable map user, I request that this map be corrected to reflect the RSs provided below, rather than as currently presented. (If that is possible, because Wiki’s image-related policies are unfathomable to my mind). I want to keep the map, rather than just delete it; it is very important but must be accurate.

One source for this image can be found here. This site shows the borders, as well as geographically related text (See section: The Boundaries of Palestine SCHEDULE) to technically determine the validity of a wiki-map representation. I Google’d the book source cited for the map and found an original(?) accessible one here. Being a hot topic, I checked on the R of the RS, and found this among others. I also found it here and note its apparent acceptance by consensus. I consider this book source reliable and notable for its reported apparent lack of bias. Another accessible site for a representation of the borders exists here. This second representation is similar to the book source for the map, noted above, and by comparison, better illustrates the differences with the current wiki-map.

I doubled-checked the geographically related text and found similar here (Again section: The Boundaries of Palestine SCHEDULE), but no map is provided at this site. I am unaware of other sources for the map at this time.

After looking into the geographic text and included place-names, with the aid of this map (big file but I didn't look at the bigest one), my professional-level map skills, familiarity with the spoken Arabic language and the area, I believe an NPOV correction is possible. Sidon is obvious and ‘following the watersheds’ is largely technical. JISR EL KARAON is a 1919 bridge over/on the Litani River near a village at Lake Qaraoun. EL BIRE is Al-Bireh, Lebanon, because that article includes reference to ‘Wadi el-Taym’, (Wadi ET TEIM). I have found ‘Bayt Jinn’ (BEIT JENN) in Syria on the Dec. 1989 NatGeo map, Holy Land, which also shows the Hedjaz Railway to the east. I suspect that NAHR MUGHANIYE, may be an upper tributary name of what the same map shows as Nahr al A’waj, farther downstream, because of its location and the text description. Other than this last item, I do not consider this OR, since we are talking about a map and must translate languages, alphabets and differences in spelling over time. That, however, is your bailiwick.

I hope this sufficiently explains and illustrates my concerns regarding this current map presentation. Since the current representation is only consistent on the south and west, this leads me to believe that more than a technical zoom factor or aspect ratio may be involved. Sorry to put you under the gun. I am willing to assist technically if needed, to provide insight into the very important water resource aspects noted elsewhere in the text, or scaled long/lat data from my paper maps. But, electronically speaking, I am graphically challenged. I will be checking the page, with hope. Professional Regards, CasualObserver'48 (talk) 09:52, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Suggested base map. It might work, but I suspect that the northern border of the base map should cover farther north, so that the correct 'red line' border does not get squeezed to the edge. Looks to be a similar problem with the this one. CasualObserver'48 (talk) 11:03, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I volunteer to provide any assistance that I can, provided you can accept classically calculated (paper, pencil, scale, etc) input. For starters, it would require agreement on a published base map (like the one noted above (1:405,500), from which I work, and a common understanding of the data/units you require for electronic input. Agreement on what dots go where would be consensual, based on how we got there and the variability of data provided. Regards, CasualObserver'48 (talk) 05:52, 24 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: Definitely doable, I won't get to it anytime soon though, so if anyone else wants to take this on please do. Kmusser (talk) 14:01, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Early expeditions in Antarctica

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Article(s): List of Antarctic expeditions and many other

Request: As a split off of an archive request by Andeggs (and to try out the new map lab) I request a map showing the expeditions in Antarctica before the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.bamse (talk) 17:22, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: I translated and modified Expeditions in Antarctica-fr.svg which is in French. The map is supposed to show all successful expeditions (those that discovered new land for instance) south of 60° S latitude the Antarctic Convergence. Please check for completeness. I could not find the routes taken by the expeditions in the box. It would be great if somebody could direct me to sources for these. At least for the Southern Ocean Expedition there should exist such material I think. Looking for comments on completeness, correctness and beauty. The svg-version renders terribly even though I used a supported font (DejaVu sans). How can I fix this?bamse (talk) 17:22, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think it looks good, I don't see anything I'd change other than making it more complete. I'll see if I can track down any of those missing expeditions next week, I think I have a couple of books on Antarctic exploration at home. As for getting SVG to render better, my solution is just to use PNG :-) Kmusser (talk) 17:44, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Then I'll leave the svg if somebody wants to translate or change something later on. bamse (talk) 17:50, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I just noticed that TimesNewRoman works much better in the svg. I only changed the font in the legend so far but will update all the text later. bamse (talk) 10:51, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
After a discussion with User:Apcbg I extended the scope to expeditions south of the Antarctic Convergence and added the expedition of Anthony de la Roché. Also changed (hopefully everywhere) to Times New Roman to get a better wiki-rendering of the svg. Still looking for routes of the expeditions in the box. bamse (talk) 21:18, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
OK, it's going to be awhile longer before I can work more on this, in the meantime I have found some sources for you if you want to continue on your own. Most refer to the Southern Ocean and Jason expeditions by their captains, Biscoe and Larsen respectively. The Philip's Atlas of Exploration ISBN 0540061913 has maps for Bransfield, Biscoe, Balleny, Larsen, and 2 that you don't have listed, Peter Kemp (1833-4), and T.E.L. Moore (1845). The October 1932 issue of National Geographic has a great map which is also online shows Biscoe and Balleny in more detail than Philip's. It also looks like d'Urville should have a 2nd loop near the South Orkney and Shetland Islands. I couldn't find any evidence that Shelvocke should be included, his own map doesn't show anything south of Cape Horn. I noticed that the NG map indicates Bull/Borchgrevink's 1895 landing with a point, you might do the same for him, Palmer, and Davis. Kmusser (talk) 04:28, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Great map, thanks a lot! Also the present map should be checked for mistakes. At least the expedition of Ross (taken from the French map) sailing through the Ice shelf is wrongly indicated. Unfortunately I don't have access to Philip's Atlas. Maybe you could draw the respective routes? No need to rush with this, as I am also quite busy at the moment. bamse (talk) 09:24, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, when I get some time I can draw or scan in the routes from Philip's.Kmusser (talk) 14:54, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Despite it being marked as stale I actually am still working on this one, just very slowly :-) Kmusser (talk) 12:37, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Just a little detail : there is blue blocks under some names (for example Weddell Sea) (maybe becauseof font ?) Bourrichon (talk) 22:55, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Pacific blank wiki map this projection

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Article(s):

Request: blank wiki map this projection... Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 05:27, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

Please clarify projection. Are you referring to this particular Map projection? I presume you're wanting a SVG map of the pacific region. Is the previous SVG map of the ring of fire the wrong projection? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.154.152.34 (talk) 10:53, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Is that what you meant? − Inductiveload (talk) 21:13, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, no, I meant where Alaska is shaped normally and not squashy, referring to this particular Map projection. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 16:04, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, I've worked out how to do a mercator projection (like what google maps does) with [my script], but I don't like what that does to the sizes of countries. I'll have a hunt for a good equal-area projection. Because this is not the entire globe, shape distortion around the edges shouldn't matter so much. gringer (talk) 11:36, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps try Winkel tripel projection? Kmusser (talk) 14:12, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
That'll probably do. It's not the entire globe, but does cover quite a chunk at the top. Here's an outline-only non-cleaned [high resolution version] (needs paths XORed, colours, etc). I'll upload a cleaned version of that to commons sometime in the next few days. gringer (talk) 11:29, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I've updated that pacific map to a Winkel Tripel projection, which should be a better projection. gringer (talk) 03:01, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
If you're doing colors, can you also do a grey-and-white Wiki-style one as well? Thanks! Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 17:38, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, guys, I appreciate your hard work, but it is totally not what I am asking for, though the work you've done will also be useful on the Wikipedia, and thank you for that. You see the first map, File:Pacific Ring of Fire.png and how the continents and everything have very definite shapes? That's a particular projection, and unfortunately I do not know its name, but that is what I need, in grey-and-white Wiki-style. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 07:40, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
That's pretty vague. That Ring of Fire map appears to be in a Mercator projection, if you wanted a gray and white Pacific Mercator map there was already one sitting on Commons. Kmusser (talk) 12:25, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
That's what I needed, couldn't find one when I searched, thank you! Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 20:56, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
ah, wait, okay, that one, but can we get it with white national borders, make the lakes clear (right now they are grey like countries) and increase the visible size of the svg? Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 21:50, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Waterways in Europe

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    Version 1

Article(s): Waterway

Request: Wikipedia lacks a good map of the main European waterways (canals and navigable rivers), at least of large and medium size. The most reliable source of data that I have found is :

Baronnet (talk) 07:18, 24 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: OKay, I'm from the Russian Graphic Land and I'll try making this one for you, though it will take some time. Also what exactly do you want it to be? Should it be just a schematic presentation (like the pdf version) of rivers or detailed (each river traced?) In what language, or you want it just plain? --Ahnode (talk) 10:30, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Great news! Well, I think the best answer is: what is most convenient for you. A schematic presentation would be enough, except if a detailed map is easier. About the language, a blank map would be preferable at first. Then several language versions could be created from it. Thanks for undertaking this task. Baronnet (talk) 08:17, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Baronnet, I started making the scheme and I'd like you to take a look at what has already been done. Do you have any comment or suggestions? Also if it is possible, could you find information on rivers for those parts of Europe that were left out on the map (Dnieper for example, a major river) and several other rivers on Russia's European territory? I would like to include that information as well, but I don't know where to look. --Ahnode (talk) 18:24, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
This is a good start ! Thank you very much for the work you have put into this. I am very sorry: I do not have information about Russian waterways unfortunately. But probably some other Wikipedian will have. I suggest that from now on we continue the discussion about this map on the discussion page of the Wikimedia Commons file. Baronnet (talk) 09:44, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Topography

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Article(s): Bosnia-Herzegovina

Request: Zoom and dim the regions that are not Bosnia-Herzegovina, it should look similar to [2]. PRODUCER (talk) 19:17, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

Sarajevo municipalities

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Article(s): Sarajevo

Request: Update the map to make it more modern like [3], highlight rather than dim the four municipalities, and number the 4 municipalities. PRODUCER (talk) 18:19, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Somalia map

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Article(s): Somalia

Request: remove shading on wording, somehow make more legible... Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 08:37, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

On it, but this will take a while. Inductiveload (talk) 10:54, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, I've got a far as a good map of Somalia, with all the borders that are on that diagram. However I am not sure what borders are which (state, region, district), and they don't always seem to align to the borders on other maps (there are several regions which are named but I can't see in the WP articles. Since Somalia is in such turmoil, I don't know what goes where. Somone up-to-date with the sistuation/history would be better than me. I have also put a very few minor and major settlements on (they're in a hidden layer of the SVG currently), but I don't think it is useful to show these if this is intended to show the political situation rather than geography. Rivers are included, but roads are not. The image is also included in the SVG as a hidden layer, to make it easy to trace stuff on top. When this is all finished, that can be taken out. Inductiveload (talk) 13:01, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Wow you're fast, and good with fine details! I like the color scheme you've chosen better, as well. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 13:45, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I've changed the colours to match the "standard" maps you see on WP, and added some cities and stuff. I'm going to leave it there for now, but the image is still in a hidden layer for reference. Ideally, this will be the map that is used for making future maps of the Somalia situation, as it should be relatively easy to change the boundaries. Also, the Wikimedia SVG engine seems to be struggling to render the text nicely at lower resolution. Inductiveload (talk) 14:54, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The text problem can be fixed by simply converting the text objects to path objects: in Inkscape, simply select all the text objects, then go Path -> Object to Path. The text objects are now path objects, which MediaWiki's SVG engine renders nicely, but beware: always backup the previous version of the image (with the text as text objects) so that you can change the text later if need be.
Anyways, I can very well fix the text for you if you want, but please make sure no further text edits are performed, to make it easy on all of us.
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I don't understand any of that, but please, go ahead! Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 08:51, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I know that, but I don't like doing it, as it means that no-one can ever edit the text again, and it makes the file size huge. I think it's better to leave it in and wait or the mediawiki renderer to improve! − Inductiveload (talk) 12:58, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, it does increase the file size. But, as far as editing the text, that's why I saaid to back up the image! You can also use the old version saved in the "File history" section on the image description page. [|Retro00064 | (talk/contribs) |] 07:37, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I have a similar problem with text-rendering in File:Expeditions in Antarctica before 1897.svg. The DejaVusans font I used first looked horribly as rendered by wikipedia. I now changed it to TimesNewRoman, which renders better, though I would prefer other fonts for maps. Maybe you can avoid converting text to paths by just changing to a different font. Another option would be to upload a png version of the map and link it in the image description to the svg for translation/modification purposes. bamse (talk) 21:28, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
One thing you can do in this situation is to convert texts to paths only in the final version, leaving a comment something like 'text converted to paths, use previous version for editing'. Then each revision needs two uploads (one for text version, one for converted paths), but it reduces the hassle of editing. gringer (talk) 00:03, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Loihi Map

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Article(s): Loihi

Request: SVGify ResMar 00:28, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: Is just highlighting it on the topographic map good enough? Example added. Kmusser (talk) 22:14, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Looks very nice to me, but User:Resident_Mario should decide. Something went wrong with the legend in the process of translation. bamse (talk) 22:32, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Legend fixed. Kmusser (talk) 22:51, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Awesomness- MUCH better then the GIF. One thing though. At 300px (standard map infobox size), the blue triangle is hardly visible. Can you increase the size of the blue "volcano" icon and the text around it? Then you could remove the ugly red O. Hope I'm not asking too much :). Cheers, ResMar 22:06, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Done. It's still kind of small when thumbnailed, but definitely visible - if I increase it much more it'll obscure the bathymetry that shows Loihi's oblong shape. Kmusser (talk) 16:20, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much. The point of the map is not to show its bathemetrics, but to allow a user to locate it. For bathymetrics, there is other things. Amazing map! Cheers, ResMar 22:46, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Eleanor cross

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Article(s): Eleanor cross

Request: Show the 12 locations, joined by a line showing the journey, on a map of either medieval or modern (but not too complicated) England, cut to the relevant area of the country. Johnbod (talk) 13:57, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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2009 Lahore attack on Sri Lankan cricket team

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  • The liberty chowk/roundabout is the place where attack took place.The black/gray route is of the Team convoy and Blue is the route which terrorist used to run away.
    The liberty chowk/roundabout is the place where attack took place.The black/gray route is of the Team convoy and Blue is the route which terrorist used to run away.

Article(s): 2009 Lahore attack on Sri Lankan cricket team

Request: Improve the route and place a star at liberty chock User:Yousaf465 (talk) 10:03, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Districts of Karakalpakstan

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  • Districts of Karakalpakstan
    Districts of Karakalpakstan

Article(s): Districts of Uzbekistan

Request: Please correct district boundaries according this map. Note that Bo’zotov (III) and Kegeyli (IV) district was merged into one district in 2004.Anatoliy (Talk) 13:56, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: We'd need a higher resolution source image, that one isn't good enough to digitize from, I can't make out the boundaries on it. I did a quick look to see if I could find GIS data for the district boundaries but came up empty. Kmusser (talk) 19:52, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

SVG blank cartogram of world countries by population

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  • Blank map of world in equirectangular projection
    Blank map of world in equirectangular projection
  • Same map, filled in with countries colored as to percentage of population using fluoridated water
    Same map, filled in with countries colored as to percentage of population using fluoridated water
  • Compact blank map, without Antarctica
    Compact blank map, without Antarctica
  • Same map, with countries filled in according to per-capita calorie consumption, 2001–2003
    Same map, with countries filled in according to per-capita calorie consumption, 2001–2003
  • Likewise, but for 1979–1981
    Likewise, but for 1979–1981

Article(s): Water fluoridation, Obesity, Dietary energy supply

Request: This is a common problem. I have a map in which each country is colored according to the percentage of population that has some property. In the first colored example, it's the percentage of population that is using fluoridated water; in the second and third colored examples, it's per-capita calorie consumptions in different years.

In these maps, I want the countries' areas to be proportional to their populations, since I'm displaying information that is per-capita, and I want the overall display to have the right global focus (China's huge population, for example, should be weighted heavily, whereas Canada's relatively-small population should not consume much space on the screen). I would like a blank SVG cartogram of the world, which looks like blank maps in the galleries above, except that the countries have been stretched so that their areas are proportional to (say) the U.N. estimates for 2009 populations. You can see (copyrighted) examples of such cartograms elsewhere,[4][5] but they aren't blank and they aren't SVG format and they aren't freely usable in Wikipedia. If I had a blank SVG world-population cartogram, I could easily color it in myself and then generate colored cartograms instead of these problematic colored maps. Eubulides (talk) 06:01, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: Cartograms are very difficult to make, it might to worth asking the worldmapper folks if they'd give us permission to use theirs. Kmusser (talk) 13:07, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Considering that they've picked cc-by-nc-nd I don't think they would agree to a more free license. Personally I'm not a big fan of these maps for the simple reason that they don't tell me anything at a first glance but that's beside the point. There are some skilled programmers mentioned on commons:File_talk:BlankMap-World6.svg who might enjoy the challenge of turning the free File:BlankMap-World6.svg into a cartogram. If nothing else it would be very useful for illustrating how such a representation would look compared to a "normal" one. /Lokal_Profil 18:24, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Found File:Sweden.population.2008-11-01.cart.svg which has been created based on a Commons svg. Asked the creator to frop by the discussion here. /Lokal_Profil 18:33, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
User said he'd give it a try but makes no promises and asks for patience. /Lokal_Profil 16:40, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Map of Dapeng Peninsula

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Article(s): Dapeng Peninsula

Request: Do something with them/Create according to the provided sources a map of the peninsula Helanhuaren (talk) 09:55, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: Did up a quick map, hopefully that works. Kmusser (talk) 17:51, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Battle maps for Bunker Hill

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  • Bunker Hill attack map 1
    Bunker Hill attack map 1
  • Bunker Hill attack map 2
    Bunker Hill attack map 2
  • Bunker Hill attack map 3
    Bunker Hill attack map 3

Article(s): Battle of Bunker Hill

Request: I would like to have SVG versions of maps similar to these (or maps that at least look better when scaled down). The text on the images is not all needed, and I may want have some of it changed (e.g. to better label the force movements), or have other text (e.g. ship names and force commanders) added. There is also some data from a map in Robert Ketchum's Decisive Day that I would like to bring in (primarily detail on force locations and the nature of the American defenses), as well as some from historic maps providing better ship locations. Thanks for your help! Magic♪piano 01:22, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

SFOBB Map

Resolved
 – Kmusser (talk) 04:35, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Current PNG
    Current PNG
  • (SVG in German)
    (SVG in German)
  • SVG in English
    SVG in English

Article(s): San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge

Request: Could someone make this PNG an SVG? Thanks in advance, SpencerT♦Nominate! 14:59, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: The image description of the German svg says: Please do not use this SVG graphic within Wikipedia articles! Use the enclosed PNG version instead. This SVG file is solely a source for re-utilization, editing or printing purposes. Why do you need an SVG version of the very good png map? Did you contact the mapmaker Alexrk, who should already have an English vector version on his harddisk? bamse (talk) 00:32, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

SVG version already exists, the linked SVG file has both English and German layers and is the source for the PNG - if there is a mistake in the PNG make the correction in the SVG file and output a new PNG file for display purposes, otherwise I don't see anything to do here. Kmusser (talk) 20:12, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I made three changes, but in the PNG: A miles/km (both) scale is there, the "proposed" eastern span replacement is no longer proposed so that needs to be removed. In addition, the dashed lines for the eastern span should be made solid. See Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge for related discussion about this. I have not contacted Alexrk, and will do so now. SpencerT♦Nominate! 00:42, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know how to work with SVGs, so I came here for assistance. Thanks, SpencerT♦Nominate! 00:42, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I applied the corrections you made to the PNG version to the SVG version as well. Kmusser (talk) 15:07, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I have uploaded the English layer of the SVG as a separate file, as File:SFOBB map en.svg. However, the English layer still has some issues that were corrected in the German layer: Broken fonts in the highway shields, the Oakland label not centered, and a missing "Francisco". Could you correct these, please? Thanks, SpencerT♦Nominate! 19:44, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It's better I think. The highway shields I moved to a language independent layer, figure there's no reason to have multiples of those. I don't know why Oakland kept getting displaced, but hopefully I moved it far enough over that it'll stay in the map. Kmusser (talk) 14:51, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

World map w/ UK split up

  • updated SVG
    updated SVG

Article(s): FIFA

Request: I originally posted this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Maps and they told me to come here, so I'm just going to copy what I wrote there:

I was looking at various images regarding international football, and I discovered that while some of the images used (such as File:World Map FIFA.svg and File:Qualifying countries of 2002 FIFA World Cup.svg were in SVG format, neither of them respected the Home Nations' borders as they should. While the PNG images that exist do the same, as they are based on File:BlankMap-World-UK.png, which does should the borders correctly. Is there any effort to create an SVG version of this image, or modify the existing SVG world map to show the borders? I started trying to do it myself, but I felt like I was taking a hacksaw to it when it required much more precision than I could offer. Also, am I even asking this in the right place?

--iTocapa iChat 19:47, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: OK, I did File:World Map FIFA.svg, you should be able to copy/paste my update to other SVG files that used that same basemap. Kmusser (talk) 16:51, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Soviet Ukraine maps

Stale
 – DyceBot (talk) 04:35, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Article(s): Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

Request: There are currently several different maps illustrating the territorial progression of Soviet Ukraine. Some are animated, others are scanned atlases, so all in all these images just look bad. But more importantly, they don't specifically show the gained territory in each time frame. Would it be possible to create a similar line maps to illustrate these changes properly? The prefered order would be:

  1. Prewar (early 1939)
  2. Annexation of Polish Galicia and Volhynia (late 1939)
  3. Annexation Romanian Bukovina and Bessarabia
  4. After WWII and the Paris Peace Treaties (1947)
  5. After Crimean transfer (1954)

Regards, Tavrian 04:35, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

Markakol lake map

Article(s): Markakol

Request: This map can be opened with Firefox and Inkscape, but it can't be seen as thumbnail. Could you resolve this problem? There is also some letter spacing issues: mountain range names looks good in Inkscape, but not in firefox. Thank you --Mikhail2009 (talk) 10:37, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: First problem solved, spacing issue remains --Ahnode (talk) 10:46, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

University of Valle

Stale
 – DyceBot (talk) 04:35, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Article(s): University of Valle#Campus

Request: Greetings. I'm completing the university article, and I would like to add the maps for the two largest campus, that are available in these websites as PDF files: Melendez Campus and San Fernando Campus. Both maps are in Spanish, and I'll be glad to help in the translation of the names. Regards, Andremun (talk) 14:40, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

Ping Chau

Resolved
 – Kmusser (talk)

Article(s): Ping Chau

Request: Do something with them/Create according to the provided sources a map of the Hong Kong island Ping Chau in the area between Dapeng and Sai Kung. It lays in Tai Pang Wan/Mirs Bay, in the north east of Hong Kong. Its very near Dapeng Peninsula and seems like a banana. Helanhuaren (talk) 10:52, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: I made a locator map for it, unfortunately the SVG locator maps currently being used for Hong Kong don't go out that far, so I based this on the older PNG locator maps, if anyone else wants to convert it to SVG feel free to do so. You could also probably use the map I made for Dapeng, it isn't labeled on there but it is clearly visible. Kmusser (talk) 13:39, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

PDF conversion

Article(s): Nizhny Novgorod and several other articles, including those in the Russian segment of Wikipedia.

Request: Recently, Russian Graphic Lab has received a request that none of our specialists can handle. Nizhny Novgorod's city administration posted online several schemes (supposedly in public domain), that give some very useful information on the city's development plan, transportation, zoning and general borders. Russian user made a request to extract the layers from PDF file and place them into SVG, AI or CDR files. After several attempts, it turned out that members' computers didn't have sufficient resources to proceed the request and all of the attempts have failed. Though, we were able to identify that the files were all created in AutoCAD and then converted to PDF. Now, if there is any chance to do this, could someone here at the English Graphic Lab help us and complete the request? Thanks in advance. --Ahnode (talk) 12:39, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: I tried, they crash both Inkscape and Illustrator on my machine. Kmusser (talk) 17:31, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the attempt Kmusser =). I withdraw the request, since we've tried so many times and obviously there is something wrong with the files. --Ahnode (talk) 01:40, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Arial like font

Hi, I'm editing an svg file using the arial font. I'd like to replace one supported by the commons svg engine to be able to control the final look better in inskcape. Which font resembles arial the most? Not only looks but also size because a lot of the supported fonts look stretched horizontally. Thanks, Richardprins (talk) 19:15, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know of any way to do this. There are two options: The first is to export the SVG as a png, using the png in articles and having the svg available only for translation. I recommend this one. The second is to convert the text into a path. This makes the file larger and makes translating the file more cumbersome but it will preserve your font choice. vıdıoman 20:40, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8898 ¦ Reisio (talk) 01:31, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

map of the Kashmir region

On 3/23/09, Atelerix wrote to Saravask:

Hello, Saravask,

I wonder if you would be interested in updating your excellent map of the Kashmir region at http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kashmir_map.svg by showing the names and boundaries of the now seven districts of the Northern Areas. The names and boundaries which you currently show within the Northern Areas, i.e., Gilgit Agency, Tribal Areas, and Chilas, ceased to be administrative dvisions of the Northern Areas a long time ago. The names and boundaries of the seven districts into which the Northern Areas is now divided may be viewed at the following website:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Areas

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Regards,

Atelerix

_____________________________________________________________________________________________


On 3/31/09, Saravask wrote to Atelerix:

Hi. Thanks for your request. I am unable to update it now because I am travelling. Please consider the Graphics Lab instead.

Regards

How is this? Phizzy 02:00, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dapeng subdistrict

Resolved
 – Kmusser (talk)

Article(s): Dapeng

Request: Do something with them/Create according to the provided sources a map of Dapeng subdistrict in Longgang Helanhuaren (talk) 08:59, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: I just added a dot to the Longgang District map. Also added the standard Chinese locator map to the article. Kmusser (talk) 15:09, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bermuda

  • The only PD map currently available.
    The only PD map currently available.

Article(s): Bermuda

Request: Please create an svg map like these: [6], [7][8], since there isn't one made currently. Here are some example ones: [9] [10] 92.8.99.201 (talk) 19:13, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

Assassination map

Article(s): Many

Request: Create a more detailed image by adding numbers that show where the assassins were like this [11], more detailed routes, and place a key in the bottom right corner that includes this key [12] and the key in this image [13]. Rename Frans Josef to France Joseph, Latiener bridge to Latin bridge, and RIver Miljacka to Miljacka river. PRODUCER (talk) 17:40, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

Genetic maps of Europe

Article(s): Ethnic groups in Europe, Genetic history of Europe

Request: Create these maps: 1) News article: [14] Journal article: [15] 2) Gene Expression: [16] Journal article: [17] Phoenix of9 (talk) 19:25, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

Olympic map

  • SVG Map of Rio de Janeiro's location
    SVG Map of Rio de Janeiro's location

Article(s): Rio de Janeiro bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics and Infrastructure of the Rio de Janeiro bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics

Request: Upload the map displayed in Rio de Janeiro Candidate File under the name "File:Rio de Janeiro bid map for the 2016 Summer Olympics.svg".

Sources:

Felipe ( talk ) 20:01, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

Before we can upload an SVG, what is the copyright status of this? --RaviC (talk) 09:00, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

All rights are reserved to the Brazilian Olympic Committee (BOC), but as a map, and provided that a copy is not explicit, it can be uploaded under a free license, as it possesses elements that are under public domain. Felipe ( talk ) 14:04, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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