File talk:Samesex marriage in USA.svg

Guide to editing this map

People have often asked how to edit this map, so I am making this guide. Thegreyanomaly (talk) 23:14, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Step 1: Get an Editor

Any XML editor will work. I use EditiX-Free-XML Editor2009. I think opening the file with notepad works too

Step 2: Determine what you need to change

Generally, most of the changes you will need to make involve changing striping (or lack of striping). Most logical striping combinations already exist; creating new stripe combinations is somewhat confusing.

Step 3: Editing the map

Near the top of the file there is a list of g id tags Here is the list of g ids that have been programmed int

• "Solid-marriage"
• "Solid-similar"
• "Solid-enum"
• "Striped-enum-foreign"
• "Solid-foreign"
• "Solid-statuteban"
• "Solid-constitutionban"
• "Solid-constitutionbanmore"
• "Solid-nolaw"
• "Striped-enum-statute"
• "Striped-enum-constitution"
• "Striped-enum-constitutionbanmore"
• "Striped-similar-constitution"
• "Striped-similar-statute"
• "Striped-similar-foreign"

Copy the g id you want, don't copy the quotation marks

For changing the color(s) of a state, scroll down to the part of the file filled with use ids. Find the id that equals the state of interest Here is an example

• <use id="IN" xlink:href="#Solid-statuteban" clip-path="url(#clipPathIN)" transform="translate(731.59, -17.6287)"/>

Look at the xlink:href="#Solid-statuteban"
Delete everything between the # and the "
it will look like this
xlink:href="#"

paste in the g id you copied, save the file, open it with a web browser (e.g. Firefox, Safari, IE, etc.) and double check that everything looks like it is supposed to, and then upload

Actual Discussion

Footnote translations requested

Anyone adept at other Wikimedia languages, can you guys please updated the footnote 1 for as many languages as you can? Thanks. I will take my go at the much needed French translation when I get a chance. Per existing consensus and a reliable source ([1]), I have update MD to full blue. Since MD already recognizes OoS marriages, I am wondering should we put the footnote 1 on the legend entry for that as well? Thegreyanomaly (talk) 01:44, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

DC/MD border

Now that DC and Maryland are both equal marriage jurisdictions, the visual distinction between DC's dot and the Maryland color has disappeared. How can some kind of boundary/edge line be put in there to show the distinction? Right now it's almost like DC doesn't exist. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.73.160.51 (talk) 07:55, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

It doesn't. Didn't you see that Retrocession passed last week? :) Serious, I think either a state border should be expressly placed there or a small circle outlined in the color of a state border.Naraht (talk) 14:24, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

The solution is rather simple - simply outline DC with a thin white circle to separate it from the rest of Maryland. Raul654 (talk) 14:26, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Current one ok? /Lokal_Profil 16:35, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Looks good to me. Raul654 (talk) 18:02, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

On the one hand, I'd prefer if the circle was smaller since it extends out close to 40 miles out from downtown rather than maximum 7 miles that the city really does, (and thus puts my house 10 miles north of DC inside the circle) but I appreciate that the pages that are using it are using it at a smaller size than we see it on the file page here. I haven't been able to see it on one of the pages that uses it, but that probably has more to do with Wikipedia catching up with itself. Hopefully (from both a NPOV and a NNPOV), we won't have to deal with the concept of striping DC, since the only likely solution will be "state" tags sitting out in the Atlantic Ocean.Naraht (talk) 18:25, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

I made the circle smaller so that it plus the new frame are about the same size at the circle by itself before. /Lokal_Profil 19:59, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Cool, thank you. Keep your fingers cross that it won't have to be striped...Naraht (talk) 12:23, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

It's already stripable (but the white frame will remain white). See Blank US Map, striped, w territories.svg for an example. Still let's hope less rather then more stripes are needed. /Lokal_Profil 17:13, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

OK, I was afraid that one stripe would cover the entire circle. In any event my NNPOV opinion is hoping DC's situation won't change. Naraht (talk) 17:29, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Recoloring the map

A User:Fry1989 took it upon themselves to recolor this map without any discussion whatsoever. Their action has been reverted in full. Such action in the future merits major discussion. Also, whenever the colors on the map are redone, efforts need to be made to update the legend in all Wikipedia articles (in all languages) that cite the map. Thegreyanomaly (talk) 07:10, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

If I may say, the recolored map was much better. While I agree it should be discussed first, the new colors he used synchronized the US colors with every other major same sex marriage map. The yellow being used for statute bans as opposed to pink is also much easier on the eyes. chase1493 (talk) 14:14, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Those colors actually hurt my eyes more than the current colors. Thegreyanomaly (talk) 05:19, 8 March 2012 (UTC)