Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop/Archive/Dec 2018
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Request Kalākaua's 1874–75 state visit to the United States
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Preliminary version of the map
- Article(s)
- Kalākaua's 1874–75 state visit to the United States
- Request
- Honolulu→San Francisco→across America by rail→Washington D. C. and the eastern seaboard states listed
- Return trip: Niagara Falls→Chicago→Milwaukee→Missouri→San Francisco→Honolulu
- This is the basic trip. Details are in the section headers of the article. I've never requested a map before, so am suggesting one similar to what was done for Kalakaua journey around the world (above). The article is at FAC at the moment, and one of the reviewers suggeseted a map would be good. -- — Maile (talk) 02:03, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- @AntiCompositeNumber: I recommend a partial map of the world (maybe just Hawaii and North America or just the Western Hemisphere) and for the “across America by rail” segment, it should follow closely the railway not just a crow fly distance between SF and DC. The potential is for this map to be more detailed than the world tour map since it is a more condense trip. KAVEBEAR (talk) 03:56, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- KAVEBEAR, I'm using File:North America second level political division 2.svg for the map, and I have been following the path based on the towns in the article. I don't have the information between Aurora and Chicago and Jefferson City to Aurora, so if you have a good source for that route, that would be helpful. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 04:01, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- I do not know for sure. The routes are following the railroad of the time. There are a lot of maps of historical railroads so we can get it more precise. I have asked on ref desk. Preliminary version looks good. Let see what others or user:Maile66 thinks. KAVEBEAR (talk) 04:17, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- KAVEBEAR, I'm using File:North America second level political division 2.svg for the map, and I have been following the path based on the towns in the article. I don't have the information between Aurora and Chicago and Jefferson City to Aurora, so if you have a good source for that route, that would be helpful. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 04:01, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- @AntiCompositeNumber: I recommend a partial map of the world (maybe just Hawaii and North America or just the Western Hemisphere) and for the “across America by rail” segment, it should follow closely the railway not just a crow fly distance between SF and DC. The potential is for this map to be more detailed than the world tour map since it is a more condense trip. KAVEBEAR (talk) 03:56, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- Note to KAVEBEAR and AntiCompositeNumber. Please see FAC comment that a state visit does not begin until the head of state arrives at the first destination. Does that mean we should confine this map to the mainland United States? — Maile (talk) 01:49, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- @Maile66 and KAVEBEAR: In my opinion, that would be leaving out important, encyclopedic information. That decision is for you all though. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 01:56, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- If we leave Hawaii on the map, and it becomes an issue at FAC, would it be difficult to make the change? I'm all for leaving Hawaii on the map, since he didn't magically appear in San Francisco out of nowhere. — Maile (talk) 02:06, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- Maile I think you are overthinking the comment. The inclusion of Hawaii will not raise a concern since the map is suppose to show the journey. KAVEBEAR (talk) 02:22, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- OK. Then let's leave the map as is. — Maile (talk) 02:27, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- Btw, unless there are any additional leads on the ref desk, I think this is the best we are going to get with the map since it would be a lot of additional research to look into exact railroad routes. KAVEBEAR (talk) 02:31, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- OK. Then let's leave the map as is. — Maile (talk) 02:27, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- Maile I think you are overthinking the comment. The inclusion of Hawaii will not raise a concern since the map is suppose to show the journey. KAVEBEAR (talk) 02:22, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- If we leave Hawaii on the map, and it becomes an issue at FAC, would it be difficult to make the change? I'm all for leaving Hawaii on the map, since he didn't magically appear in San Francisco out of nowhere. — Maile (talk) 02:06, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- AntiCompositeNumber I took the liberty of sticking the version above into the article. — Maile (talk) 02:52, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- AntiCompositeNumber Niagara Fall is misspelled. It is missing an a.KAVEBEAR (talk) 16:53, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
- KAVEBEAR, Fixed. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 18:05, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
- Graphist opinion(s)
Request taken by AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 02:39, 24 November 2018 (UTC).
- @Maile66 and KAVEBEAR: I'm going to call this
Done now, as I'm taking a bit of a wikibreak. There's something odd going on with the text rendering that I didn't get to track down, you might want to ask at WP:SVGHELP about that. If there's any changes you want made, drop a note here and ping me and I'll deal with them when I get back. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 15:23, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
- It is done and inserted in the article. Thank you. — Maile (talk) 15:31, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
- @Maile66 and KAVEBEAR: I'm going to call this
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