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The map contains a pretty major flaw. The Balto-Slavic family is shown with different colors, as the Baltic and Slavic languages are not "one" language today. The Indo-Iranian branch, which, similar to the Balto-Slavic family, also contains several independent branches (i.e. three), is wrongly represented on the map as if it was "one" language. I'm therefore looking for someone who could split the dark blue "area" into an Iranian, Indo-Aryan and Nuristani area.
Perhaps light blue, dark blue, and another blue-mix colour could do the trick. For comparison; the Baltic languages are shown in light green, whereas the Slavic langauges are shown in dark green. -- LouisAragon (talk) 18:34, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
@Maproom: Thanks for raising that up. Yes, it seems that the same thing is going on for the Romance languages. I agree that the map doesn't make the specific "claim", but often, things aren't needed to be explained "explicitly" for people to erroneously assume things. To the common user, who just often look at colours/patterns, I believe it may definitely appear as such. I think splitting all branches up would definitely raise the overal EV of the map. - LouisAragon (talk) 19:18, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
The map does not claim that each colour contains only one language. Spanish, French, Romanian and other languages are all shown in the same colour. Maproom (talk) 19:00, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
Indo-European family tree in order of first attestationIt seems the problem is the inconsistency. Every other group corresponds only to a level 1 division of the Indo-European language tree, whereas Balto-Slavic is further divided into level 2 divisions. At least according to the article (see tree to the right). The solution is either to subdivide all the other groups to level 2, or combine the Balto-Slavic groups into one. Auguel (talk) 23:20, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
Request
Hoping to improve the above article through a visual, and a map of county boundaries would be helpful. Data is available at the provincial government website(catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca) and hopefully it is easy to transpose. Much obliged.
Shoman93 (talk) 16:31, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
At the top of the article, it states that Anyone can make a request for a map to be created or improved for a Wikipedia article. Under this, making maps for NationStates is outside the goals of this project. User:Axisixa[t][c]04:34, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
3) Given that the city of Durban, South Africa, is no longer scheduled to host the 2022 Games, the marker for the city should be removed from the map, and South Africa itself changed from purple back to red, as it no longer qualifies as a country that has hosted or plans to host the Games (after all, Montreal and Cardiff were scheduled to host the cancelled 1942 and 1946 Games respectively, and yet neither are marked as such, hence Durban shouldn't be either).
I could easily convert it to a png. But I don't know what you mean by "straightened" or "borderless". Do you want the borders of the states removed? Maproom (talk) 20:44, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
Sorry for being unclear, and thanks for getting this! This version is a scan, so it's not 100% straight-on every monitor I've checked it's a little off. If it was frameless (no outer rectangle, just the map and the names), the skew would not be noticeable.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 00:35, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
I can straighten it (I hadn't noticed the slight angle), and correct the spelling. But I'm reluctant to remove the border, as that would leave the longitude and latitude markers hanging, which might look odd. Maproom (talk) 08:37, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
Done I've straightened the borders, cropped off the marginal text, corrected the spelling of Hatohobel, and converted to .PNG. Maproom (talk) 15:26, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
Fantastic! Thank you Maproom! One last question before I close this. The German Palau article has a clickable map, can we do anything like that? If so I will make a separate request.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 05:30, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
en:WP supports clickable maps, and there are people here (en:WP, not necessarily this workshop) who can create them, but I'm not one of them. Maproom (talk) 07:08, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
Present-day native distribution of Indo-European languages, within their homeland of Eurasia.
Done I've straightened the borders, cropped off the marginal text, corrected the spelling of Hatohobel, and converted to .PNG. Maproom (talk) 15:26, 15 May 2018 (UTC)