User talk:Ebyabe

Villa Vizcaya, in Miami. I took this photo, as well as the others on this page. Plus about 20,000 or so others.

À ringraziè vi (Corsican), Zikomo (Chichewa)

or

Wiliwni (Abenaki), ngiyabona (Zulu)

That's thank you, from A to Z (by word or language). Sometimes I'm not good about thanking folks who thank me for my aimless fiddling around on Wikipedia. So in case I do forget, this should cover it. If you'd like more words of appreciaton, find them here.

Hey, they even have translations of the classic My hovercraft is full of eels!

Below (and on my user page) are a few of the photos I've taken in my NRHP roadtrips. More to be found here.

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Hey, how do I go about creating a map for National Register of Historic Places listings in Downtown Davenport, Iowa? I'm planning on using File:National Register of Historic Places listings in Downtown Davenport, Iowa.png CTJF83 19:05, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Hey back. :) I knew I talked about this previously, and here it is. Thank goodness for archiving. :) --‖ Ebyabe ^talk - State of the Union ‖ 19:14, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

I started something like that [1], I guess I just need to put the dots on. Do you recommend I just use a image edit program and put dots on, then map out and link the sites? The other way of finding the longitude and latitude looks like a pain. CTJF83 19:22, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Ack, my bad. That's for stuff like counties. What you want is {{Location map+}}. --‖ Ebyabe ^talk - Attract and Repel ‖ 19:30, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Ya, see, that looks like a pain in the ass to find all the longitude and latitudes for these places, unless you have a suggestion for that? CTJF83 19:33, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

The only other way is to do it as XY coordinates, like the infoboxes used to be. Talk about a pain! I wish there was an easier way. Looking at the google map, I'm not sure it'll work anyway. With so many sites clustered together, it's going to look very clumpy. The reason the NHL maps work is b/c the sites are relatively spread out across a state. Even then, it can take some jiggery. See {{Florida NHLs map}}. Back to you. --‖ Ebyabe ^talk - Opposites Attract ‖ 19:48, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Ya, I was hoping File:National Register of Historic Places listings in Downtown Davenport, Iowa.png would be zoomed in enough to have enough room for the properties. Then again, it won't be that big on the article page. You have far more NRHP experience then me, what do you think? My original map of just the outline area? Putting dots with a photo editing program and then linking with your first suggestion? Or your 2nd suggestion, and try to figure out the long/lat of the properties? CTJF83 19:59, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Actually, outline is probably the best, and if someone wants specific locations, they can use Google maps link. CTJF83 20:00, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

I keep thinking of stuff....can I export all the points from the Google map link, and import them on a free map? CTJF83 20:01, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Just like me. Once the mind starts going, you can't make it stop. Damn you, brain! :) If you have some photoediting program, like Photoshop, I guess you could copy a free map and add the dots in that way. --‖ Ebyabe ^talk - Border Town ‖ 20:04, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Ok, I'll have to see how it looks on the page. Thanks, CTJF83 20:08, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

(stalker) You could do a 1,2,3... think like is seen in many tourist brochures (e.g. this one that I found through a random google search) and identify the numbers in a caption. I did something like this with Historic districts in Meridian, Mississippi and File:Meridian, MS Historic Districts.PNG. Just a suggestion.--Dudemanfellabra (talk) 21:37, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

lol thanx for the ice cream, but its sooo cold here! how about some warm freshly baked cookies? :-) Nikki (talk) 20:44, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

It's warm down here in Florida, so let's trade. :) --‖ Ebyabe ^talk - Inspector General ‖ 20:46, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

lolz wish I was in Florida! this section needs updating, they make it sound halfway decent: Frostburg,_Maryland#Climate — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xtgyal (talk • contribs) 20:49, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

Only been thru the Delmarva Peninsula part of Maryland, so I'll take your word for it. Been to Wheeling, which is close. I envy your mountains, since this is what counts for a mountain in Florida. :) --‖ Ebyabe ^talk - Opposites Attract ‖ 23:59, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Pinellas County list

Thanks for the input at WT:NRHP. Just one question — do you avoid photographing empty lots for destroyed properties? I note that you have a clear address for the Potter House, which was destroyed before 1991. I generally do that myself, and I've had to do it a lot in some places — my SHPO doesn't delist very often, and some lists (e.g. Allen County) have tons of parking lot photos. Maybe that's why we have the third-highest number of listings? Nyttend (talk) 03:02, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

After several trips, I only recently found the info about the Potter House being gone. I have a picture of the site, but there's a modern building there that's part of the USF St. Pete campus. Weirdly, it's next to the John C. Williams House. Maybe I'll take a photo of it next time I'm down there, now that I know.

Actually, I tend to take pictures of sites of destroyed buildings, then add them to the articles with a caption. Like Dixie Court Hotel and Hibiscus Apartments. It always makes me a bit sad when I find those. Once I got home and verified, I did report them to the historical folks up in Tallahassee. And I noticed a few weeks ago that they finally on a pending list for removal, along with some others I reported.

It's kind of odd now, since most of Florida's photographed. Plus I visited almost all the state parks, which is how this started. I'm hoping to get motivated again to roadtrip, since there's still a few odds and ends that are accessible. Down in the Keys, and some closer to home. Plus I can get better shots of some sites. Now that the weather's getting nippy down here, that tends to get me going, since it's ideal photography weather. As can be seen by the St. Joseph Peninsula State Park picture at the top of my userpage. Anyway, 'nuff rambling. Happy holidays. :) --‖ Ebyabe ^talk - Border Town ‖ 03:40, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

I really hate taking pictures of driveways and hedges, when you can't get close enough to see a house. I've got a few like that. --‖ Ebyabe ^talk - Union of Opposites ‖ 04:08, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Wow, you've got quite the advantage being in Marion County. I've gotten the majority of Indiana listings, but I'll likely not be able to get vast numbers of other photos; there are five counties with 40+ listings I've not photographed, and four of them are too far away for a grad student's time and money. A pity that I'm not able to be in Ohio for more than occasional visits, as Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, and Cleveland have vast numbers of sites without images. Ohio's gone the MPS route a lot more than Indiana; the typical Indiana county with lots of sites simply had lots of individual listings, while many Ohio counties (e.g. Champaign County and the Erie County sites that I visited today, including the burned boat) are sparse except for close clusters in specific areas: apparently they wanted to nominate HDs in these areas and found too many intrusions, so they just nominated every wouldbe HD-contributing-property individually. Nyttend (talk) 04:16, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Part of why I like living here is it's strategic location. It's about six hours to Pensacola and five to Miami. So daytrip-able in either direction. :) I like Ohio. My Mom and I were up there in '04, during my two week vacation. We drove thru 12 states in 12 days. Did Nashville to Newark in one day, for example. My boss at the time lived in Indiana, so I waved in that direction as we drove through Cincinnati. Ohio was one of the highlights. Dawes Arboretum, downtown Newark, the Great Circle, and Velvet Ice Cream Company. All unplanned too. Which for me was an eye-opener, overplanning OCD guy that I am. :)

What part of Indiana do you live in? Mayhaps you could hit some of Michigan or Illinois or Kentucky. My last major roadtrip was down the Georgia coast from Savannah south. Maybe I'll daytrip to West Virginia. Yes, I am potentially crazy enough to daytrip to West Virginia. I really hope I can go to the big Wiki meetup in DC. That way I can visit Mom and Dad at Arlington. We shall see. --‖ Ebyabe ^talk - General Health ‖ 04:39, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

I'm at the main campus of Indiana University in Bloomington. Michigan is definitely too far away for me, and I've gotten everything or nearly everything in all the Illinois counties along the Wabash. I hope to get some Louisville pictures — I've completely skipped Indiana's metro Louisville counties because I don't want to do them and skip Louisville. That, in turn, will need to wait a while yet: with a bridge out, they have signs on I-65 as far north as Indianapolis telling travellers that it can take a long time to get to Louisville — sometimes it can take an hour or more just to cross the Ohio. And thanks for the Newark photos; I photographed the earthworks (and Flint Ridge, too) while visiting a relative in Licking County, but I've not yet gotten the chance to go downtown and duplicate your Sullivan bank photo. Nyttend (talk) 14:58, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

There's Missouri, that's not too far from you. But you may have gotten all the nearish stuff already. Evansville and Owensboro, maybe? I hear you about construction. Mom and I would joke that a trip wasn't a success unless we encountered construction. My suspicion is that it's b/c so much federal road money got released to try counteracting the recession. So projects that would have been spread out got going all at once all over the place. I'll be happy when you get more Licking County photos. I took those with crappy disposable cameras, since I didn't go digital until 3 years later. Btw, Sullivan bank? I don't remember that. I recall shooting the courthouse and the theatre. When you do get there, go up to Utica to the Velvet Ice Cream Company. It's worth the trip. :) --‖ Ebyabe ^talk - General Health ‖ 23:21, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

You can get lucky though. When I got to the address for the Dr. C. B. Wilson House, there was a bank there. I took a photo, to show where it was. But when I got home and did research, I found it hadn't been destroyed, but moved, and even got the address. When I was there a few months later, I found it (with a bit of difficulty) and got shots. The old site and the house are in the category for it at WikiCommons. Sometimes you get lucky. :) --‖ Ebyabe ^talk - Attract and Repel ‖ 00:19, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, I was thinking of the Home Building Association Bank (image); turns out it was photographed by Carptrash, not you. I went through Utica a year ago on the way to the same relative's house for our (late) Christmas celebration; the same trip yielded the rural Dixon Mound and the Fuller House in Utica, plus this church in Utica that used to be part of my denomination. Definitely didn't notice the ice cream place; perhaps I'll try to return at some point. To address your first point — I just finished Evansville this month, along with three other counties in southwestern Indiana. Owensboro was too far out of the way, but I considered Henderson across the river; however, I spent a lot of time at lunch visiting friends I'd not seen since the 1990s, and finishing up the Indiana counties between Evansville and Bloomington was a bigger priority than getting the Henderson County sites. And Missouri is simply too far away for me right now; it would be a 500-mile round trip, which is more than going even to the farthest part of Indiana. I guess I'm stuck with knocking out more of Indiana; since there are so many rural counties with just a few sites, my accomplishments are more of adding counties to the fully-illustrated list and less of adding raw numbers of sites. For me, the southwestern quadrant of Indiana is the counties that are at least partially south of Interstate 70 and at least partially west of State Road 135; if I can photograph 12 specific locations, I'll have photos for every single NR-listed location in southwestern Indiana. Nyttend (talk) 23:44, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

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