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Request for a Palm Beach County, Florida map

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  Example Florida county map

Article(s)

All Palm Beach County High School pages. Example: Suncoast Community High School

Request

I am requesting a geographical map of Palm Beach County, FL so I can use them in the infoboxes for Palm Beach County High Schools. I got inspired from seeing this article: Union City High School. -- — BladeRikWr 18:36, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Discussion

Have you tried using {{OSM Location map}}? It can automatically produce a map, like the one below: --RaviC (talk) 13:21, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

2km
1.2miles

   

That sounds like a plan! If I have any other questions, I'll leave them on your talk page. {{resolved}}

Greater Beirut svg map

Hi, would anyone be kind enough to create a map of Greater Beirut in the same style of this map on Beirut? I'm asking here because I'm not able to do so myself. The coordinates on OSM should be N: 33.9838, S: 33.7860, E: 35.6802, W: 35.4220. Thanks for your help, Nehme1499 (talk) 11:21, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

Have you tried using {{OSM Location map}}? It can automatically produce a map, like the one below:

--RaviC (talk) 13:27, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

930m
1014yds

   

{{resolved}} Perfect, that's exactly what I'm looking for! Thanks, Nehme1499 (talk) 15:07, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

Modifying Infobox Map to suit geographical coordinates

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Request

The maps in use in the infoboxes of the Kolkata neighbourhoods, say for example Sealdah or Ballygunge pages (the first map above), is rather unclear and does not show much. There is a map in the Infobox of Dharmatala page (the second map above) which is much clearer and shows some important neighbourhoods. However, this map is not adjusted to geographical coordinates as those in the Sealdah or Ballygunge pages. Kindly make the map on the Dharmatala page suitable to take in geographical coordinates. Then it can be used on different pages of Kolkata neighbourhoods as an alternateive to the present map. The present map need not be removed. It can also continue without any change and editors can choose between the two. Kindly help. In Wikimedia Commons Commons:Category:Maps of Kolkata, there are similar but undisturbed maps. Cheers. - Chandan Guha (talk) 23:06, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Chandan Guha, Have you contacted the original author? Here is an alternative using {{OSM Location map}}, that may be of help.

260m
283yds

Sealdha

   

Arjunaraoc (talk) 00:02, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Arjunaraoc I had contacted Jayantanth, the original author, regarding this map a long time before I had put in this request. If you see the use of this map on the Dharmatala page you will find it is suited for that particular page only. That means, in his system there has to be a separate map for each page. He had agreed to help me with around 140 maps for use on Ward No. 46, Kolkata Municipal Corporation and similar pages. However, I find him to be a very busy person and he is not getting any time to develop so many maps.

I still feel that if some one could convert the map to be adjusted against geographical coordinates, it would be of great help for Kolkata-related pages.

Many thanks for the OSM Location Map suggestion. It would go in very well in the neighbourhood pages related to Kolkata. I have placed it in the Sealdah page. However, there is one problem with OSM Location Maps. The small map is not coming on in mobile phones unless it is placed at the top of the page. The full screen map is coming on in mobile phones also. I have been using a different version of the OSM Location Map quite extensively. See Naihati page. I have already approached RobinLeicester, who taught me the fundamentals of this map, for help.

Cheers - Chandan Guha (talk) 01:41, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

@Chandan Guha, Thanks for your update. Did you try Kartographer, which does not have mobile display issues as per my knowledge.Arjunaraoc (talk) 05:09, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

@Arjunaraoc Thanks for Kartographer information. I had not come across it. I am hopeful about the OSM problem being solved. People are working on it. Cheers. Chandan Guha (talk) 05:18, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

@Chandan Guha the template version of kartographer at {{maplink}} also now has a framed option. It has all the open street map zoom and location adjustments but cannot add text, so would just show one or more pointer markers (plus boundary lines and other options, where the open street map values have been defined) but might give you a good equivalent to {{OSM Location map}} for your purposes. RobinLeicester (talk) 21:06, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

@RobinLeicester, @Jayantanth I am not really looking for an alternative to the OSM Location maps. I am quite happy about these. I am using these quite extensively. However, the OSM Location maps don’t fit into the Infoboxes. The problem is only with the Infobox maps for Kolkata city pages. There are over 200 such pages. Infobox maps for places/ areas outside the city are fine and okay. I have given here an alternative Kolkata city map, that has more details and shall be happy if some one could adjust the map to take in geographical coordinates. It may be noted that User:Jayantanth developed this map for the Dharmatala page

In the extreme event of the above proposal not being feasible, can the OSM Location map in Ward No. 1, Kolkata Municipal Corporation be fitted in the Infobox? Cheers. - Chandan Guha (talk) 01:22, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

@Chandan Guha, I created a sample map with coordinates

Kolkata street map with bounding box information in description

. Let me know whether it works for you.Arjunaraoc (talk) 05:41, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

@Arjunaraoc I have placed the map in the Ward No. 1, Kolkata Municipal Corporation page. The OSM map is coming out fine but the coordinates of Ward No. 1 are not working. It would be great, if you can show the Ward as in the map on the left hand side of the page. If it is not possible or too cumbersome, I will manage with this. Thanks a lot. Cheers. - Chandan Guha (talk) 06:13, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

@Chandan Guha, This needs a page to link to the image and its coordinates. I have named the map reference as "Kolkata Street Map" and the details are stored in Module:Location map/data/Kolkata Street Map and now the pin is shown on the page(permanent link. A ward of caution is the wards are area and it may not be proper to reference them as points. If the wards are present in open street map, them mapframe based map may be easiest to show its boundaries.Arjunaraoc (talk) 08:08, 24 April 2019 (UTC)::

@Arjunaraoc Fine, many thanks. There are already are many area maps shown with dots, say for example Mongalkote (community development block). Moreover, the wards cover a small area. Cheers. - Chandan Guha (talk) 08:25, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

@Arjunaraoc Sorry to disturb you. The map needs to be extended length-wise towards the bottom. The location dots are going well outside the map in Ward No. 109, Kolkata Municipal Corporation and Ward No. 142, Kolkata Municipal Corporation.Please keep a little space beyond these points. There is some space at the top. You can adjust it suitably. Cheers. - Chandan Guha (talk) 08:53, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

@Arjunaraoc I can see that you have started adjusting the map. Please keep a watch on Ward No. 141, Kolkata Municipal Corporation, which is the western-most point. - Chandan Guha (talk) 09:39, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

@Chandan Guha, Thanks for your alerts. I hope I got it correct now. Please check and let me know.Arjunaraoc (talk) 09:54, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

@Arjunaraoc Great job done. It seems to be okay now. Many thanks. Cheers. - Chandan Guha (talk) 09:59, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

 Done Arjunaraoc (talk) 04:23, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

@RobinLeicester,@Arjunaraoc, @Jayantanth - 144 pages from Ward No. 1, Kolkata Municipal Corporation to Ward No. 144, Kolkata Municipal Corporation have the OSM Location map and this infobox map.Thanks and cheers. - Chandan Guha (talk) 11:02, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

Resolved

 – Chandan Guha (talk) 05:16, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Nader Shah, Afsharid map

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Article(s)

Persian Empire (amongst others)

Request

Please adjust the borders depicted in the first map (i.e., File:Afsharid_dynasty_(greatest_extent) to match those depicted in the second map (i.e. File:Map_of_the_Afsharid_Empire). As the latter (i.e. second) map is based on proper sources, the first map needs to be adjusted as well, for consistency's sake. Thank you in advance, - LouisAragon (talk) 14:33, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

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