Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop/Archive/Aug 2010
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Wikipedia friendly colors

Article(s): unemployment
Request: Wikipedia friendly colors... Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 15:21, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Resolved
Switzerland

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Map showing how Muammar al-Gaddafi’s proposal for the dismemberment of Switzerland might work out
Article(s): Libya–Switzerland relations
Request: Please translate the names of France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland from German to English on this map. City of Destruction (The Celestial City) 13:28, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
- Have you tried to contact the original author? This map is a PNG, which makes replacing the names a little less easy than it would have been with an SVG. Classical geographer (talk) 16:38, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
- While I applaud you for bringing me to one of the more colorful & amusing wikipedia events articles I've seen, I'm not sure this belongs on Wikipedia per WP:OR. I don't think it would be particularly difficult to change the names, either if kept as an PNG or converted to SVG, but keeping the font would be difficult. I think the deciding factor should be: Are the noted borders either trivially obvious or directly referenced from the UN speech, or would it be possible to draw other conclusions on the precise lines of division from the proposal? Lesqual (talk) 17:21,
28 July 2010 (UTC)
- Thank you for translating it, a map that I'm sure that can hardly be very popular in Switzerland. I actully came across it on an external website, and no, I haven't contacted the original creator though I can if that would be helpful. As to whether this map is original research, I would say it probably isn't as these are precise boundaries based on the linguistic regions of Switzerland, as per Gaddaffi's suggestion that German-speaking Switzerland should become part of Germany and so forth.
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Map showing the linguistic divisions of Switzerland
Graphist opinion(s):
Request taken by Sudoman.
Done
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Map showing how Muammar al-Gaddafi’s proposal for the dismemberment of Switzerland might work out
Map border fix

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Map of the districts of the Boy Scouts Coronado Area Council
Article(s): Coronado Area Council
Request: Could someone please fix the state border around the shaded counties so that is is the same thickness as it is around the unshaded portion of the state? Thanks, Ks0stm (T•C•G) 20:56, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Request taken by Lesqual.
Done
Sometimes, it's easier to make a new one than to fix it. Here you go. Lesqual (talk) 02:32, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks, but if you look at the counties, the borders of the counties are kinda messed up in the new one...the way they should look is the same as in the old one. Ks0stm (T•C•G) 17:26, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
- While that wasn't intentional, for this article I question whether it's problematic. The borders aren't 'messed up', they're simply generalized to a greater degree than the other map. This saves Wikipedia bandwidth and rendering time, and is good SOP when extra detail would be superfluous to comprehension. Even if it does detract slightly for you, the fact that the source data I picked uses proper polygons for counties and linework for boundaries, rather than the messy automatic vectorization that the other image uses, makes it worthwhile for future editors because one can fix things like border width painlessly. Lesqual (talk) 20:17, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
- I'd have to agree with Ks0stm on this one, the higher level of generalization on your map did some strange things, making counties that should have square borders no longer square. The original's vectorization is pretty good (compare with File:Kansas counties map.png). I'll grant that at the size used in the article it won't be very noticeable, but I also don't think it's an improvement over the original. Kmusser (talk) 21:00, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
- I think I've got the original fixed. Kmusser (talk) 14:28, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
- Yes, that looks good on the original...Many thanks, Kmusser, and Lesqual, I do appreciate your attempt and give you my thanks as well. Marking resolved. Ks0stm (T•C•G) 00:13, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
- While that wasn't intentional, for this article I question whether it's problematic. The borders aren't 'messed up', they're simply generalized to a greater degree than the other map. This saves Wikipedia bandwidth and rendering time, and is good SOP when extra detail would be superfluous to comprehension. Even if it does detract slightly for you, the fact that the source data I picked uses proper polygons for counties and linework for boundaries, rather than the messy automatic vectorization that the other image uses, makes it worthwhile for future editors because one can fix things like border width painlessly. Lesqual (talk) 20:17, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Please make map Wikipedia-friendly

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WXK92 coverage map
Article(s): WXK92
Request: Could someone please make this more Wikipedia-friendly, possibly an svg...the high detail of the coverage area doesn't have to stay (it can be more generalized or completely eliminated), but the alerted counties still need to be highlighted somehow and the transmitter location marked. Thanks in advance, Ks0stm (T•C•G) 20:05, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Request taken by Thylacine222.
There's a PDF version of the graph on the same page which has vector data, so I just need to fix the colors, some of the text as well as the location of the weather station. Thylacine222 (talk) 18:48, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
How's this? Thylacine222 (talk) 21:51, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
- I altered it to where the unshaded counties represent the ones alerted, but the map is fine otherwise. Many thanks! Ks0stm (T•C•G) 00:24, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Rajshahi/Rangpur maps

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Old Rajshahi province
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Bangladesh divisions in English
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New Rajshahi province (রাজশাহী বিভাগ) and Rangpur province (রংপুর বিভাগ)
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Need to separate Rajshahi and Rangpur provinces as it's done here
Article(s): Rangpur Division, Rajshahi Division
Request: Need to make separate maps for a Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions which were separated this year. Bangladesh location map already has these new borders but need to update provincial map. Hugo.arg (talk) 10:37, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Request taken by MarsInSVG.: 2010-07-27
- Finished the other one. Kmusser (talk) 17:56, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
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Rangpur Division
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Rajshahi Division
Black Mamba

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This is not a Black mamba distribution map. It is the only map I could find that is close to the actual Black mamba's distribution.
Article(s): Black mamba
Request: I want to request a distribution map for the Black mamba. Its distribution though under somewhat dispute seems to be in accordance with the National Geographic map that is located on this page: http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reptiles/black-mamba.html However, the JSTOR article may be more reliable, but the source can only be view by members. The information is cited on the Black mamba page under distribution. Do not hesitate to contact me on the talk page. Cheers! Reddevil1421 (talk) 00:58, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
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Black Mamba Range
How about this? The conventions here are a bit confusing, but here you go. It looks fine in Illustrator, but you might want to increase line weights or generalize out the national borders depending on how it looks rendered into low-res PNG thumbnails. Lesqual (talk) 19:57, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
- Okay, after 20 hours I guess the problem here is not just Wikipedia slowly caching things... for some reason this image won't render into a PNG. Any idea why? Lesqual (talk) 16:36, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
- Fixed, you had a link to an external file in there which caused a problem when it couldn't find it - I'm not sure what that file was, did you have a background image maybe? Anyway, I just took out the link. Kmusser (talk) 17:02, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
- Yes, thanks for your help. Lesqual (talk) 17:20, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
- Fixed, you had a link to an external file in there which caused a problem when it couldn't find it - I'm not sure what that file was, did you have a background image maybe? Anyway, I just took out the link. Kmusser (talk) 17:02, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
You could try WP:LIBRARY to get access to the JSTOR article... if we can get that mirrored somewhere I'm sure someone here can modify a map for it. — raeky (talk | edits) 20:15, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
Given the disinterest (this appears to have been the focus of a school project which ended), I've placed it on the page myself and marked it Done & resolved. Lesqual (talk) 23:40, 26 July 2010 (UTC)