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The routemap in question is at Template:The Stourbridge Line and viewing it shows two errors which I cannot fix. The first is an alignment issue on the main line between the Brown Street to White Mills sections where 'SHI1+r' appears to be the wrong icon to use. I cannot find a better one.
The second is a small chunk which seems to be missing from the icon 'BS2r' as shown just above the passing siding above Brown Street. Not sure what's going on there.
Thank you for any help Kether83 (talk) 03:54, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I have fixed this issue with the help of Laberinto.app which is an online bsicon generator. At this point I just wish there were a thin line grade crossing icon to use for Brown St. but it looks like there just isn't one.
Kether83 (talk) 15:16, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, I need help displaying a map properly; I have an Openstreetmap relation, just can't get it to show up in the article.
@Kether83: on OpenStreetMap, I have added Q7620588 to the relation and removed it from the way (I message Veronica_G on there and they said they didn't finish the way or something).
I have a small followup and am not sure if this is the right place to ask - I created a routemap for this article as well but am having trouble with a couple of icons, as shown: Template:The Stourbridge Line
Hi Kether83. I suggest posting a new Help desk desk question, and include the exact problems.
For example: I can see the problematic gap (derailment!) between White Mills Road and Brown Street, but did you want three sidings or switchbacks (as used)? Maybe I can learn the fixes by reading Wikipedia:Route_diagram_template, bit I may get stuck - it is complicated :-(.
The current map of MST counties in ND is awkward because it doesn't show the rest of the state at all; if you don't know the geography well at all, you won't know if they're farther west or east, and even if you know this, you won't know if they're farther north or south. Could you take the typical locator map and highlight the MST counties with the same colouration? This way we'd get the whole state, so it's easy to see where in the state the MST counties are found. -- Nyttend (talk) 18:58, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
A map of the British Isles with the locations of all settlements, villages, towns etc. named after wolves, be they in English, Scots, Gaelic, Irish or Welsh. The names of the localities are listed here: Place-Name Evidence for the Former Distribution and Status of Wolves...in Britain. As to where they are located exactly, that will require someone with a greater knowledge of British/Irish geography than I to work out. I know this will be hard work, so anyone willing to take this on will have my sincerest thanks. : P.S., an already completed map is apparently available here on Wiley.com, but it's subscription only. Mariomassone (talk) 11:46, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The Place-name evidence for the former distribution and status of Wolves and Beavers in Britain article I linked to has grid references (1x1km areas I think), like SU 4019 for Wooley Green, for nearly all locations - and general areas for others. So a map using a set of coordinates in the Data: namespace in Commons and Kartographer should be possible. Commander Keane (talk) 14:54, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Mariomassone: is your process going to be to list of all the grid references, convert them to coordinates, and then add them to a map? If we had a list like:
SU 6368
SU 5791
SU 8577
...
(taken from Table 2, p. 206 in the paper)
Then I could run a script to convert to coordinates and then use Wikipedia's in-built mapping to display them. Unfortunately the pdf is scanned poorly, so getting the grid references in a list is tough, even with copy/paste. Commander Keane (talk) 00:57, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Commander Keane, I'll list the grid references, but this may take some time as there are hundreds. I'll do them in batches:
Visually, it looks okay to me at c:Data:Wolf_place-names_in_the_UK.map, full-screen on a desktop monitor - but the icons are way too bunched in thumbnail view. Not sure what to do about that.
I have put the location and grid reference as the description on the data page so when you click a marker you see them. The title field for each marker I have left blank, but someone could add the actual place-name (eg Woolan's wood) for each oneif they like (OCR really struggled; a job for a human).
For general interest: Python code used. I haven't double checked the results, so beware.
Could you remove the big square and replace it with a circle around each of the isolated locations where this species lives? (Right now it's hard to distinguish most of the locations from dust spots on my screen.) I believe it's fine to overwrite the existing map with the new, since it's just an improvement rather than a major change. Most of the other projects don't have captions for the map, and (based on Google Translate) all that have captions say simple things like "Distribution map", so there aren't any references to the square itself that would be confused by an overwrite. Nyttend (talk) 19:15, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion
As it's a PNG, that's quite tedious work. It's better to recreate it as an SVG file. Regardless, rather than cropping Australia from a world map, it's preferable to choose a projection centred on Australia. cmɢʟeeτaʟκ(please add {{ping|cmglee}} to your reply)05:37, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, Commander Keane, but all I see from your image is a blank map. (I can't even figure out how to get a filename for it.) Is it supposed to display with certain areas highlighted or circled? And I'm unclear how to use the linked map on Commons, which doesn't have circles for the various locations. Is there any chance of uploading the relevant bits of that map as an SVG? Nyttend (talk) 01:47, 29 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
ICUN distribution.
@Nyttend: It is a interactive OpenStreetMap map that uses data on Commons and can be placed in articles using {{maplink}} with the correct parameters. Infoboxes in articles often use them by default, eg today's featured article. Admittedly, at that zoom the one red and three pink habitat locations are difficult to see - that is why you want circles.
I have made a new version with markers (displayed in this post). It is inserted into an article using: {{maplink|frame=yes|from=IUCN population bridled nail-tail wallaby with markers.map|frame-width=200|frame-height=250|zoom=3|text=ICUN distribution.}}
Hi, I have two requests, if you don't mind. I might be mistaken, but it seems to me that picture 2 is overwritten. If so, is it possible to adjust it?
My second request is, if possible, to add the administrative divisions as shown in picture 1. Thank you. --Fayçal.09 (talk) 12:16, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion
Oran Province Districts. Map from Wikidata/OpenStreetMap query for places that are (1) an instance of a district of Algeria, and (2) located in the admin territory of Oran Province
Oran Province Communes. Map from Wikidata/OpenStreetMap query. Get districts (see previous example) and retrieves anything that is an instance of those districts.
Hi Fayçal.09. There is a good map (I think?) at Oran Province - File:Oran communes de la wilaya.GIF. Is that one problematic? I can't draw maps, but I used {{maplink}}, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap to create zoomable district and commune maps. Embedded here.
Request: Relief Location Map for Iloilo Province, can be used for location pins on Wiki pages.
@Retdar, your request a malformed but I think your question is in the topic heading. I haven't checked, but are pushpin maps still favoured in Wikipedia? It is possible to have an OpenStreetMap with a marker instead. For example in these edits I replaced the pushpin map for a church with a zoomable OpenStreetMap version.
Here we have a map of the northern coast of South America, showing the distribution of three fish species: Poecilia koperi, Poecilia wandae, and Poecilia boesemani. A fourth species, Poecilia vandepolli, can be easily added as it inhabits Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, three small islands off the coast of Venezuela.
I would be very grateful for either a simple map or a Maplink map; Peter once made a wonderful interactive distribution map for Limia#Species, quite possible the best distribution map I have seen.
Distribution of P. boesemani (red), P. koperi (blue), P. vandepolli (yellow) and P. wandae (brown).
I have created a map (embedded here) using c:Data:Poecilia distribution.map. When I overlaid the .png image you provided it didn't match up perfectly with the OpenStreetMap mapping (it was a bit of a rough sketch to be honest). I assume you know about the sources and can cite them where appropriate. I tried different projections and in the end lined up the points the best I could (out of interest the process was: QGIS; Freehand georeferecner plugin; projections EPSG:4326 & EPSG:3857; Lat Lon Tools plugin switching to lon-lat for copying picked points). Commander Keane (talk) 09:47, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I have run into a problem. No matter how wide I make it, the map shows only a single K mark for P. koperi and only a single W mark for P. wandae, making it look like each is found in only one locality :( Please see Poecilia koperi. Surtsicna (talk) 11:04, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Those drafts are PNG versions of the original SVG file I'm working in and will upload to commons.
Those drafts are shown for proofreading only.
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I have chosen to have the same background for all of the basins. One reason is so it will work for most people (also with color deficiencies), but also if there is different colors people can read in values depending on them.
@Goran tek-en Thank you. By “proofreading” did you mean just checking the text? That looks fine to me and as an svg it should be easy for native Turkish speakers to check and correct once I add it to a trwiki article. As a native English speaker I can easily use the svgtranslate tool to add English. On second thoughts please change "Konya Kapalı" to simply "Konya".
However I really feel we should have different colors. My vision is fairly normal and I can see the basin border lines, but without the different colors their shapes and sizes are not obvious. Whereas on map1 in https://water.fanack.com/turkey/water-resources-in-turkey/ it is easy to see, for example, how huge the Tigris-Euprates basin is. Probably you are younger than me. Please could you reconsider about colors.
I forgot to ask whether the cross-border character of a few basins can be shown in some way. Çoruh, Aras, Tigris-Euprates, Asi, and in the west, Meriç. For example as you may know Tigris-Euprates (Fırat-Dicle in Turkish) is highly political so it would be nice to give the reader a clue that it extends into Iraq and Syria. Tigr-euph Perhaps it could be say green in Turkey and a lighter green in other countries? Or just hatch green a few km across? But if this is too difficult forget it. Chidgk1 (talk) 07:03, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Proofreading: checking everything in the Draft. I have had occasions when people have taken those png's and uploaded those Drafts themselves which is not right so I state this.
I will be back with a new different colored draft but I will consider color deficiencies and that map is under copyright so I will not/can't just copy. I'm not probably younger than you if it matters.
You mention "Tigris-Euprates"as an extended basin, but we don't have one named like that.
Do you have any pas that show how they extend in the other countries.
This SVG currently shows India’s states and union territories coloured by the most commonly spoken first language in each state/territory. However, it does not represent the Mithila cultural-linguistic region, where Maithili is a major language spoken by millions across parts of Bihar and Jharkhand in India. Maithili is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and a distinct Indo-Aryan language inherent to the Mithila region.
Please include an overlay or separate key for the Mithila region and Maithili language distribution on the map so that the map accurately reflects this major linguistic region.
@DevGeekStar: As you say, File:Language region maps of India.svg is for the most commonly spoken first language in each state/territory. Mithila is not a state/territory (as far as I can tell). So you want new map: for which article and what purpose? Given the linguistic diversity of India I am guessing that File:Language region maps of India.svg was chosen as a simple, understandable, representation. There may be several major linguistic regions and a map maker would need all the relevant data so as not push a certain point of view. Do you have a source for the 22 scheduled languages and their boundaries? Commander Keane (talk) 03:30, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the clarification. The purpose would be proper representation on the Languages of India Wikipedia page, where this map is used as a visual overview. Maithili is a scheduled language of India and one of the proposed Classical languages of India, spoken by 70M+ people globally, yet its core linguistic region (Mithila) is not visually represented due to state-level aggregation under “Hindi”.
Multiple linguistic surveys and academic sources document the Maithili-speaking region. For reference:
It may also be relevant to note that Maithili’s visibility in official statistics and public usage has historically been limited due to factors such as:
its inclusion under broader language categories in census aggregation,
limited use in primary education and administration in its core region, and
a shift from its traditional Tirhuta script to Devanagari in most contemporary usage.
I am not proposing altering the existing state/UT logic of the map, but suggesting a supplementary or inset map so that major constitutionally recognised languages are not unintentionally left invisible in overview visuals. DevGeekStar (talk) 05:08, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Request - Map of San Lorenzo and surroundings - Interactive map
maplink: the default, clickable, zoomable OpenStreetMap map. Removing pushpin lines in the infobox will get it do display (I assume all infoboxes support it that way). There are infobox infobox personalisation options available also.
pushpin: can be used with infobox parameters, puts a red dot with optional caption on hover on a map. Not interactive, when you click the map in the infobox it loads a map with no red dot.
Looking at Template:Maplink, I don't think you can get it to show caption when you hover over the map. Maybe you could request that feature somewhere, or the guidelines might say you can use the pushpin map if you feel the need. However, given that mobile readers (the majority) cannot hover anyway with a phone/touch device and that there is typically only going to be one feature (museum/church/station) in an infobox map it should obvious to readers what the marker is pointing to. Commander Keane (talk) 01:11, 28 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
1) Siwel is not a reliable source and what's in it doesn't look anything like what you're suggesting. 2) This self-declared "republic" (by a handful of people in France) shouldn't be given UNDUE weight by making appear as though it's real. What's in the article is already a stretch. M.Bitton (talk) 01:33, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Graphics Lab/Map workshop
Resolved
Bumping thread.
Request taken.
North Dakota Counties Observing Mountain Time Zone
Typical ND county locator map
Infinitehoax (talk) 21:18, 30 November 2025 (UTC)
Map template
I was thinking of something visually similar to this
Mapped locations from Aybes & Yalden (1995)
Range map for the Bridled Nail-tail Wallaby
ICUN distribution.
ICUN distribution.
Oran Province map1
Oran Province map2
Distribution of P. boesemani (red), P. koperi (blue), P. vandepolli (yellow) and P. wandae (brown).
. As you maybe know water shortages are a problem here so helping people understand is important I think. Chidgk1 (talk) 13:29, 11 December 2025 (UTC)
Reference style for orthographic projection and visual balance
SVG map for Kabylia.svg?lang=en)
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