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Second French Empire

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Second French Empire
Perhaps using this map as a base for redrawing borders.

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Request: Some island territories maybe missing & borders need to be redrawn to match 1860s borders. Mackay 86 (talk) 07:06, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion(s): Done by (talk) Mackay 86 (talk) 01:22, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mayabeque

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Kmusser (talk) 10:50, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Article(s): Mayabeque

Request: Remove top caption per WPMOS... Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 10:29, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion(s): Done I went ahead and cropped it, though I think that file is likely to get deleted as a copyvio. Kmusser (talk) 11:28, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What makes it jump out as copyvio?--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 13:40, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The given source being an online magazine, the public domain note on there would only be valid if it's over 50 years old and that doesn't seem likely.Kmusser (talk) 14:10, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There is that. I knew I should have learned how to read!--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 12:35, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a numbered image of Cuba generated from GADM data, just in case the other one can't be used. I guess it'd need to be modified to account for the new province. gringer (talk) 11:49, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The GADM license is not compatible with Wikipedia either, GADM is for non-commercial use only, unless you got permission. The only completely free GIS data for admin boundaries that I know of is VMAP0. Kmusser (talk) 13:46, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How much do I need to modify the GADM vector data by to make this not an issue? I'm currently doing a simplification of vector data by removing points that are closer than some resolution limit (so GADM is higher resolution than the generated maps), but I could do other things (e.g. jitter the points a bit, use a non-linear projection like WT or orthographic). gringer (talk) 15:55, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure you can, they've copyrighted the database, so no matter what you do to it you'd still be using it for a commercial use, it's not the same as a copyrighted map where you just need to change the symbology. That said copyrighting databases is a gray area - it hasn't been clearly established whether that protection extends to individual items of the database or only applies to the database as a whole. You might be fine, it just isn't clear without getting lawyers (or asking permission). Kmusser (talk) 13:52, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Vmap0 is copyright-burdened by ESRI on some of its admin-boundaries layer, unlike the rest of the datasets. Natural Earth Data was created by journalists & web cartographers as a modern, explicitly public domain dataset, and it has admin0 and almost all admin1 boundaries. I'm unresolving this in order to use it to make a new map that will withstand copyright claims today or tomorrow.

Request taken by lesqual. -Lesqual (talk) 15:28, 21 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks heaps for pointing this out. I'll have a go at making a general script for NED, because it seems to fit a license that is compatible with wikimedia commons [1].

All versions of Natural Earth raster + vector map data found on this website are in the public domain. You may use the maps in any manner, including modifying the content and design, electronic dissemination, and offset printing. The primary authors, Tom Patterson and Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso, and all other contributors renounce all financial claim to the maps and invites you to use them for personal, educational, and commercial purposes.

gringer (talk) 11:48, 22 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I ran into some problems selecting and modifying the data in QGIS, evidently someone did some counter-clockwise digitizing or something verboten along those lines. Graphically everything showed up right, but selection and geoprocessing operations refused to work. 'Repair Geometry' is generally easy with ArcGIS, but was taking seconds per province in QGIS. I found a fixed-up file which worked just fine on their forums. Note that they only added the Bahamas in version 1.2, so they're missing that in the fixed download. Lesqual (talk) 17:42, 22 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

So I made the locator maps to convention (I think... are those borders right?) and tacked on a diagram of the changes as a bonus. Lesqual (talk) 17:50, 22 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File:Division de La Habana es.svg

Evidently I did something wrong to Image:Mayabeque_Locator_Map.svg but since it's nearly identical to the Artemisa locator map, I'm at a loss as to what that is. Lesqual (talk) 17:59, 22 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

~~Chalk it up to a temporary WP rendering problem, seems to be working fine now.~~ Lesqual (talk) 21:31, 22 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wow! That was a struggle. Apparently, RSVG does not like to render text behind a clipping mask deeper in a hierarchy, or with fractional font sizes. Rendering at all bitmap sizes is now functional.

Done Lesqual (talk) 03:36, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]