Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop/Archive/Jan 2019

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World maps without Inter-Korean Border

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Blu-ray

Request

South Korea and North Korea regard that Korea is a single country. Many religious organizations and some of international organizations also regard that Korea is a single country. Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople set a single diocese in Korea. Because of Samsung and LG support Blu-ray disc, there are no inter-Korean border in the official Blue-ray region code map. We should remove inter-Korean border at Blue-ray region code maps in commons. We also need world maps without Inter-Korean Border. --Algyeran (talk) 06:16, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Discussion

The maps show de facto independent countries, not de jure independent countries. The maps show the fact that the northern and southern parts of the Korean peninsula are controlled by different governments. Not to mention the fact that almost every national government recognizes North Korea and South Korea as separate countries. Altering the map as you suggest could violate a neutral point of view. ― Дрейгорич / Dreigorich Talk 04:54, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

South Korea and North Korea regard that Korea is a single country. So making new maps and use these maps for specific purposes don't violate a neutral point of view. --Algyeran (talk) 05:56, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Norway location map

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  Location map of Norway

Article(s)

Module:Location map/data/Norway complete

Request

Y'know how a complete map of Japan exists? Maybe if you make the map of Norway with Svalbard, that will be great. -- RainbowSilver2ndBackup (talk) 00:22, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Discussion

Egypt and Sudan

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  Map of Egypt and Sudan, with special attention to the territorial dispute in the eastern section of their border

Article(s)

Four articles at en:wp, plus twenty-seven articles at nineteen other projects (seventeen Wikipedias and two Wikivoyages)

Request

The stripes on this map make it hard on the eyes, and the boundaries of Egyptian governorates and Sudanese states are much harder to see. Could you replace the stripes with a solid background of identical colors, and replace the Hala'ib Triangle double striping with a solid purple or green? (My colorblindness makes it hard to tell which is current; just please use the current color) And please be careful to leave Bir Tawil at its current white. Thank you. -- Nyttend (talk) 12:32, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

Discussion

@Nyttend:  Done. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 12:58, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

Hi, thank you, and yes that's much easier. Nyttend (talk) 13:00, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

@Nyttend: I put in the striping to help colour-blind people who can't distinguish yellow from blue, so was surprised to read that solid colour is better. Is this universal? Ta, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 10:04, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Blue-yellow colorblindness is a good deal rarer than red-green colorblindness, and blue-yellow is as strange to me as red-green is to normal people, so I can't give you a solid answer on what they perceive. While the stripes make it distinguishable at full resolution, they make the governorate/state boundaries much harder to see, and you won't see the stripes at lower resolutions; either they're not noticeable at all, or they make the image look "fuzzy" and reduce its perceived quality without improving visibility for someone who can't see the colors. If you're concerned about blue-yellow, I think a better option is changing the darkness of the different regions, since even a totally colorblind person would see the four regions as four different (and thus distinguishable) shades of grey. Nyttend (talk) 12:25, 17 February 2019 (UTC)